Last night, before going to bed, I listened to Liang Dong and Xu Wenbing's Spring Festival program "Firewood, Rice, Oil, Salt, Sauce, Vinegar and Tea" on CCTV Science and Education Channel, and heard an astonishing remark, saying that there are so many diabetics now, and a big reason is because they don't eat or eat less staple foods.
Traditional Chinese medicine often says that the spleen and stomach are the foundation of nurture.
In fact, the spleen and stomach are just tools, if there is no raw materials such as the subtlety of the water valley, the whole person will not have the spirit and spirit, and the spleen and stomach will also be passive due to the lack of the subtle nourishment of the water valley, and eventually fall into a vicious circle, resulting in the deterioration of the body.
Rice is the food that provides us with energy, and as the first of the five grains, it grows in a relatively good climate environment and absorbs the essence of heaven and earth. Rice is also a good medicine, flat in nature, sweet in taste, has the effect of nourishing the spleen and stomach, in many ancient classics, there are records of taking medicine with rice soup.
There was a patient before, when I first saw him, the whole body was emaciated, a feeling of malnutrition, he reported that he had diabetes for 8 years, and he had been taking hypoglycemic drugs, and the more he took hypoglycemic drugs, the thinner he became, from the original 140 pounds to almost 90 pounds.
In addition, I am often thirsty, like to drink water, urinate a lot, tired and weak, and do not like to talk, and I feel tired and panicked after talking for a while. Fasting blood glucose 12.7, 2-hour postprandial blood glucose 18.8, glycosuria (++++).
After detailed inquiry, he learned that he had never eaten rice since he suffered from diabetes, because he heard others say that rice is carbohydrates, and eating it in the stomach will increase blood sugar, so he never ate it again.
On immediate diagnosis, the tongue is light, white and greasy, and the pulse is weak and weak.
After I understood the situation, I added a few flavors of medicine to the recipe to strengthen the spleen and stomach.
Recipe: Astragalus membranaceus, Codonopsis, Atractylodes, Yam, Yamagi meat, Ophiopogon vulgaris, Salvia, Chicken Inner Gold, Coptis chinensis.
also gave him a detailed dietary prescription, and specially told him that the staple food should not be missing.
As a result, after half a month, the dryness of the mouth and tongue disappeared, the feeling of thirst was greatly reduced, and the urine output was significantly reduced, which basically tended to normal.
After 17 doses of medicine, the self-reported physical discomfort symptoms basically disappeared, and his physical strength increased. So, I adjusted the dosage a little and let him drink another 10 doses, and eventually, the patient's discomfort disappeared completely, and the fasting blood sugar was rechecked at 5.55, and the urine glucose turned negative.
Traditional Chinese medicine says that "those who have stomach qi live, and those who lose stomach qi die", and rice soup and rice are the best foods to nourish stomach qi.
If you don't eat enough rice, your internal organs will slowly become problematic.
First of all, the spleen is deficient, which is manifested as a little bit of fullness, the stomach always feels bloated, the person feels very tired, and the stool is sticky; further is the spleen and stomach deficiency, in addition to the above symptoms, it will also increase the poor appetite, poor spirit, poor complexion and other conditions; and then the liver and kidneys will also have problems.
And he was thirsty and drank, urinated heavily, was tired and weak, and talked tiringly.
The tongue is light, white and greasy, and the pulse is weak and weak.
This is due to the loss of spleen health, which can neither infuse cloth and eat subtlely, nor can discharge water and dampness, so the spleen is deficient and damp.
Moreover, the spleen and the stomach, cohabiting in the middle of the coke, the spleen is mainly transported, the stomach is accepted, the spleen is mainly rising, the stomach is descending, the spleen is not only for the stomach to carry its fluid, but also can nourish the lungs and kidneys, can be the water valley subtle, the fluid is infused into the lungs, so that the lungs can be nourished, and the kidneys are helped to make the true yin essence and blood of the kidneys be filled, and the health of the spleen and stomach is the basic guarantee for the yin of the lungs and kidneys to be nourished.
When the spleen and stomach are damaged, it is impossible to nourish the yin of the lungs and kidneys, and a series of symptoms of diabetes appear.
So, in this square
Astragalus membranaceus and Codonopsis radix have the function of strengthening the spleen and invigorating qi and strengthening the body, and modern pharmacological research has confirmed that they have a significant effect on reducing blood sugar and urine glucose;
Atractylodes atractylodes helps to strengthen the spleen and invigorate qi; yam nourishes the spleen and yin and takes in subtlety; mountain corn meat strengthens the kidney and nourishes the essence; wheat winter clears heat and nourishes yin, shengjin quenches thirst; salvia invigorates blood and nourishes blood; chicken gold dissipates food and accumulates food; coptis clears heat and dispels fire.
The combination of various medicines can play a role in strengthening the spleen and invigorating qi, nourishing yin and nourishing the body.
The ancients said that those who eat grain are wise, and those who eat meat are despised. We all know that human "essence" is very important, it is a collective term for essence, blood, jin and liquid, which is actually the material qi of life. The side of the word "fine" is "rice", and "rice" is "five grains", five grains for nourishment, this grain is very broad, not only refers to wheat, millet, rice, beans, but also covers other such as "buckwheat, oats" and so on.
Many people talk about carbohydrates because they are afraid of blood sugar and fat
Xu Wenbing said that the starch in cereals is different from the starch of yam potatoes, and the sugar is different from the sugar of sugarcane and fruits, and it is the food that is most in line with the spiritual vitality of the human body.
In my opinion, if a person eats staple food three times a day for a long time and is very healthy, there is no need to change his diet structure and follow the trend of "low-carbon, low-carbon" or even not eat staple food for a few days, which is incompatible with his body. Just like Liang Dong said, in the past, people ate a little bit of vegetables and meat and ate a few bowls of rice, and there were not so many fat people, but now people eat very little food, eat a lot of meat and vegetables, but there are more and more fat people.
One point to add: the five grains are not polished rice and fine noodles, the best five grains are to eat whole seeds, in fact, it is to eat rougher, eat more seed skins, germs, if you can't do it, don't regard the staple food as a flood beast, it is a necessity for the human body.
Finally, I would like to remind everyone that Chinese medicine pays attention to syndrome differentiation and treatment, and everyone's physique and condition are different