Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Sui and Tang dynasties, a generation of famous doctors in the eyes of later generations, left countless precious prescriptions for future generations, the most widely spread is his "Qianjin Hypoglycemic Prescription".
Why is it called Qianjin Hypoglycemic Formula, is it because medicinal materials are particularly expensive?
No, the two most important books in Sun Simiao's life are related to Qianjin, one is called "Qianjin Yao Fang", and the other is called "Qianjin Yifang", so it is logical to add a Qianjin in front of Sun Simiao's blood sugar prescription, in fact, the medicinal materials used are very common, but the effect can not be underestimated.
Mr. Chen, male, 53 years old, has a history of diabetes for 4 years, and the main symptoms are dry mouth and bitter mouth, cold hands and feet, soreness in the waist and knees, nocturia, blurred vision, dizziness and loose stools.
Diagnosis: The tongue coating is thin and white, and the tongue is pale in color. Fasting blood glucose 13.6.
Prescription: Astragalus, white peony, black plum, kudzu, epimedium and dendrobium
The result?
After a follow-up visit, the symptoms of dry mouth and bitter mouth and soreness in the waist and knees were greatly improved, and the stool began to form, and the fasting blood sugar was 9.8mmol/L;
The patient continued to take the medication, and at the third follow-up, the symptoms disappeared, and the fasting blood glucose was 6.1mmol/L, and there was no recurrence so far.
Sun Simiao has a unique insight into the pathogenesis of thirst disease, Sun Simiao pointed out that the root cause of thirst lies in the five labors, seven injuries, and six poles, which leads to the deficiency of the body's righteous qi and causes the occurrence of diseases.
Among them, the five labors refer to willingness, hard work, mental labor, anxiety and excessive fatigue, that is, excessive thinking, exhaustion, excessive physical fatigue, etc.;
The six poles include: qi pole, blood pole, tendon pole, bone pole, essence pole, and meat pole. That is, excessive exertion leads to excessive loss of subtle substances such as qi, blood, and essence, as well as overwork of the five bodies such as veins, muscles, skin and bones, resulting in thirst and other diseases.
The seven injuries emphasize yin cold, yin dysfunction, tenesmus, continuous and endless essence, lack of sperm and dampness, jingqing, and bitterness of urine, etc., which lead to excessive evil qi and blood circulation, abnormal subtle distribution, and deficiency of essence and jin will cause thirst and other diseases.
This prescription, which takes astragalus membranaceus and black plum pueraria root as the main medicine, astragalus, replenishes qi and raises yang, shengjin and nourishes blood, you can see astragalus in many hypoglycemic prescriptions, modern medicine has also found that astragalus has a two-way regulating effect on blood sugar, it can rise when blood sugar is low, and it can fall when it is high, and the effect is particularly powerful. And the black plum and kudzu, mainly to quench thirst, the patient's body is very deficient in yin and jin, so the deficiency is on fire, how to drink water is still thirsty, the combination of black plum and kudzu can be a good way to nourish yin and shengjin.
Then I used white peony to collect yin and nourish blood, epimedium to replenish yang, and dendrobium to strengthen the effect of nourishing yin. The whole recipe is mainly to replenish qi and nourish yin, and the qi and blood yin and yang are in harmony, so as to improve the disorder of qi and blood yin and yang caused by yin deficiency in diabetic patients.
Dr. Cheng will teach you two tricks, the first is to look at your tongue, if the tongue coating is thin and white, and the color of the tongue is relatively light, then it is suitable, and the second is to look at the symptoms, if your blood sugar is unstable, and at the same time, you are always tired and afraid of cold, the stool is not formed, and your appetite is not good, then it is also suitable.
But here is a reminder that Chinese medicine is broad and profound, and prescription medicine is only one aspect, and it still needs four diagnoses and references to be more accurate. It should not be copied, and a diagnosis is needed to be more accurate. If you don't do it right, blindly applying the prescription will make the condition worse.