Diabetes is a clichéd topic.
In ancient times, there was no concept of blood sugar. Of course, the ancients also had diabetes, didn't they?
According to the symptoms of the patient's constant thirst, the ancients vividly called it thirst quenching.
No matter how much water people drink, they will still feel dry mouth and tongue, and they will not quench their thirst. Not only that, but the more you drink, the more you urinate.
In addition, the thirst-quenching people have a good appetite and eat more, not only do not gain weight, but also lose weight.
In fact, in the view of Chinese medicine, thirst quenching is mainly caused by yin deficiency.
How to say it?
First of all, when you feel thirsty, your body is signaling you that your body is dehydrated.
That lack of water, why does drinking water not work?
Strictly speaking, what the body lacks is not water, but jin liquid. The liquid mentioned in Chinese medicine refers to the liquid that has a nutritional effect in our body, which can be blood, sweat, saliva and so on.
So why do you urinate so much?
Mainly because people with thirst quenching disorder drank too much water, and this water failed to convert into jin liquid, which was transferred upwards to various organs. Since it is impossible to go up, it can only be discharged downward in the form of urination.
What about a good appetite and a strong appetite?
Or is it caused by yin deficiency! The normal human body is the balance of yin and yang, yin and yang restrict each other, once the yin in the body is weak, the yin can no longer fully restrain the yang, and the excess yang is easy to run around, which is called in Chinese medicine, and the void yang floats up. Therefore, the food eaten is also easily consumed by yang qi.
In addition, the rise of the void yang can also lead to a faster metabolism in the body, and the weight is naturally not rising but falling.
In summary, in any case, the general direction of thirst quenching is yin deficiency.
In addition, the 2020 edition of the China Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes also proves our above inference, which divides diabetes into three types, namely yin deficiency dry heat type, qi yin two virtual type, yin and yang two virtual type. You see, are the three symptom types all with yin deficiency?
China's Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes, 2020 Edition
Therefore, in the treatment of diabetes, in the perspective of Chinese medicine, nourishing yin is a big premise.
Today, I would like to share with you a formula from the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" - white tiger plus ginseng soup.
White tiger plus ginseng soup: plaster, zhimu, ginseng, licorice, japonica rice
Simple 5 herbs, let's briefly repeat:
Gypsum is a cold medicinal herb, which belongs to the lungs and stomach meridians.
"Medicated Heart Method", "The stomach is treated with a cold medicine, which moisturizes the lungs and removes heat." ”
Chinese medicine believes that the mouth goes through the stomach meridian.
Some people with a strong stomach, this fire burns, follows the meridians, burns to the mouth,
Therefore, such people often have symptoms such as dry mouth, red and swollen gums, periodontal bleeding, mouth ulcers, and bad breath.
To put it simply, it is the stomach that is on fire, and the jin liquid in the mouth is burned dry!
"On medicinal properties", "The main stomach knot, boredom, impatience, irritability, cure dry and scorched lips." ”
It is said that the cold nature of the plaster is used to extinguish the stomach fire to prevent the spread of the fire.
Let's imagine that if the stomach is on fire and diarrhea, is the disease of dry lips and scorch naturally no longer exist?
Quite the intention of encircling Wei to save Zhao.
plaster
Zhimu is also a bitter and cold medicinal herb, but compared to plaster, Zhimu is more moist.
In the Shennong Materia Medica, it is said that Zhimu "quenches thirst and heat." ”
What does that mean?
As mentioned before, thirst quenching, to the shallow is dry mouth, to the deep is yin deficiency,
Zhimu has the effect of nourishing yin and moisturizing, moisturizing can relieve dry mouth, and nourishing yin can cure yin deficiency.
Again, "hot" is the disease of the fiery intestines,
Knowing the mother into the lungs, stomach, kidney meridians, to the organs to replenish the liquid, the organs of the fiery disease will naturally be alleviated,
Therefore, Zhimu not only nourished the yin of the upper, middle and lower three jiao, but also extinguished their false fire by the way.
Kill two birds with one stone.
Zhimu
Ginseng taste sweet and slightly warm, into the spleen, lungs, heart, kidney meridians,
It not only has the effect of tonifying the qi of the spleen, lungs and kidneys, but also has the effect of quenching thirst.
Therefore, ginseng is long for improving the body heat and thirst, dry mouth and tongue, sweating and other fever diseases and qi and two injuries.
So, don't be silly to think that ginseng is just tonifying qi,
Nowadays, many prescriptions for the treatment of diabetes will more or less see the shadow of some ginseng.
ginseng
Finally, use some japonica rice and licorice to protect the spleen and stomach that have been injured by the stomach fire.
Rice
licorice
For this formula, Mr. Zhang Xichun, a titan of modern medicine, proposed in the "Records of Medicine" that "replacing japonica rice with raw yam, the more stable the formula, the faster the effect."
White tiger plus ginseng soup is a typical antipyretic agent, therefore, white tiger plus ginseng soup can be used for yin deficiency and dry heat type diabetic people.
What should the crowd of qi and yin and yin and yang use?
Qi and yin deficiency can be used tianqi sugar reduction capsules, and yin and yang two deficiencies can be used for jinkui kidney qi pills.
At the end of the article, Yuanzhi wants to emphasize that even if the drug is good, controlling diabetes is not an overnight thing, and while taking the drug regularly, regular exercise and healthy diet are also essential. Here, give the majority of sugar friends the six-character heart method: keep your mouth shut and open your legs.