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The following herbs have both anti-aging effects and hypoglycemic effects, and play an important role in the prevention and treatment of diabetes, which are introduced as follows:

1. Chasteberry

Chasteberry is an anti-aging herb that replenishes the yin class. Chasteberry taste sweet and bitter, cool, attributed to the liver, kidney meridian, have bright eyes, tonic liver and kidney, clearing the effects of deficiency heat. According to Chinese medicine, chasteberry can nourish yin qi, leveling yin fire, treating false sweating, quenching thirst, and serving for a long time to get rid of all kinds of diseases and lightness of the body without aging.

Modern Chinese medicine pharmacology research shows that chasteberry contains organic acids, glycosides, terpenes, steroids, sugars, phospholipids, amino acids and trace elements. Chasteberry has the effect of lowering blood sugar, lowering blood fat, protecting liver, increasing coronary blood flow, preventing and abating atherosclerotic plaque and reducing plaque thickness, and promoting liver cell regeneration.

For diabetic patients, emaciation, dry mouth and throat, available chasteberry 20 grams, 10 grams of Schisandra chinensis, 5 grams of American ginseng, have the benefit of yin and yang yin, the efficacy of the thirst. The method of consumption is to decoct the three flavors of Chinese medicine and drink it as tea.

Precautions: Cold spleen and stomach, diarrhea and Yang deficiency should not be used. This product is prone to mold, be careful to keep it airtight.

2. Cordyceps

Cordyceps is one of China's valuable traditional Chinese medicine, and ginseng, antler and known as China's tonic "three treasures". It has a good health care role, known as the holy medicine for deficiency.

The Chinese medicine believes that Cordyceps Sinensis is sweet and warm, and has the effect of tonifying the lungs and kidneys, stopping bleeding and resolving phlegm. Adapted to the treatment of middle-aged and elderly people with deficiency, chronic cough and asthma, lumbar and knee pain, impotence and spermatorrhea. Modern medical research has confirmed that Cordyceps is rich in proteins and amino acids, as well as sterols, nucleosides, peptides, monosaccharides and polysaccharides, organic acids, a variety of vitamins and trace elements. Pharmacological studies have shown that Cordyceps has the effect of antioxidant and improving SOD activity. Cordyceps has enhanced cellular and humoral immunity and anti-tumor effects. Cordyceps also has the function of protecting heart and brain tissues from ischemia, increasing coronary blood flow and cardiac output bleeding, and resisting cardiac arrhythmia.

Cordyceps is a marvelous yang-boosting and tonic Chinese medicine. It can tonify the lungs and kidneys, protect the internal organs, nourish yin and yang, and get rid of diseases and health. Modern medicine has found that Cordyceps has anti-aging effects, and the elderly feel stronger and more energetic after taking it. In addition, Cordyceps has the effect of regulating body metabolism and blood sugar. Experimental studies have shown that giving male mice 10 grams per kilogram of body weight of Cordyceps or Cordyceps mushroom water extract by gavage shows a better hypoglycemic effect.

Some people use Cordyceps hypoglycemic drink for the treatment of diabetes mellitus of the lower elimination type, which is characterized by emaciation, depression, dizziness, tinnitus, dreaming and spermatorrhea, and turbid urine like ointment, and it has a good effect. Usage: 1 dose per day; take 3 times before food. Ingredients: 1.5 grams of Cordyceps Sinensis, 12 grams of wolfberry, 30 grams of Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati, 30 grams of Shouwu, 15 grams of Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, 30 grams of Gorgon fruit, 30 grams of Chinese yam, 15 grams of Astragali, 12 grams of Jinchuuzi. Production: Cordyceps sinensis, Chinese yam, etc. together into a casserole, add water soak half a day, decoction, even 2 times, combined two decoction to take.

Precautions for: the elderly have a deficiency of yin and fire should not be used.

3. Epimedium

Epimedium, also known as the immortal spleen, for the Berberidaceae perennial herb Epimedium, the dry ground part. According to Chinese medicine, Epimedium is pungent and sweet in flavor, warm in nature, belonging to the liver and kidney meridian, it has the effect of tonifying the kidney and strengthening the yang, dispelling wind and removing dampness. It is suitable for the treatment of kidney impotence and infertility, lumbar and knee weakness, wind-cold and dampness paralysis and numbness of hands and feet.

Herba Epimedii has anti-aging effect, also has the effect of enhancing sexual function, lowering blood sugar, lowering blood lipids, anti-inflammatory, improving renal function, lowering blood pressure, increasing cardio-cerebral blood flow and so on. Animal experiments have proved that experimental hyperglycemic rats were given Epimedium extract 10mg/kg with obvious hypoglycemic effect.

Some scholars use horny goat weed 12 grams, Pueraria lobata root 10 grams, red peony 10 grams, 10 grams of hyssop, dendrobium 2 grams, 15 grams of yellow essence, 15 grams of Polygonum multiflorum, Panax quinquefolius powder (rushing) 2 grams, 1 dose per day, decocted with water, divided into the morning and evening two times to drink. Serial service for 1 month. It has the effect of benefiting qi and nourishing yin, warming yang and activating blood. It is used in the treatment of diabetes mellitus combined with diabetic retinopathy in the elderly with significant efficacy.

4. American ginseng

American ginseng belongs to the same root of ginseng, because it is produced in the United States, Canada and France, so it is called American ginseng. According to "Gleanings from the Compendium of Materia Medica" written by Zhao Xuemin in 1765, American ginseng has the effect of "tonifying the lungs and lowering the fire, generating fluids, and removing tiredness" in China during the Qing Dynasty.

Modern Chinese medicine believes that American ginseng is bitter, slightly sweet, cold in nature, and enters the heart, lung and kidney meridians. It has the effect of tonifying qi and nourishing yin, clearing lung fire and generating fluid. American ginseng has the effects of anti-aging, benefiting the qi, benefiting the intellect, regulating the central nervous system, enhancing the immune function, anti-tumor and so on.

For elderly diabetic patients, who have weak body, weak waist and knees, dry mouth and throat, thirst and drinking, take 5 grams of Radix Panax Ginseng, 10 grams of Fructus Lycii, 15 grams of Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, 15 grams of Rhizoma Puerariae, which has the effect of generating fluids and quenching thirst, nourishing liver and kidney. The above flavors of Chinese medicine soaked in water for half an hour, decocted 3 times, combined 3 times the liquid, divided into morning and evening drink twice, served for 15 days, there is a significant effect of lowering sugar.

5. Ginseng

Ginseng is the root of ginseng, which is a plant of the family Ginseng. It has the effect of delaying aging, tonifying vital energy, calming the mind, tonifying the five organs, and generating fluids. China's earliest surviving herbal work "Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica" records that ginseng has the effect of "lightening the body and prolonging the life of the people if it is taken for a long time".

Modern Chinese medicine believes that ginseng has a sweet and bitter flavor, belongs to the spleen, lung and heart meridians, and has the effect of replenishing vital energy. It has the effect of tonifying the spleen and lungs, generating fluids and quenching thirst, and calming the spirit and benefiting the intellect. Chinese medicine believes that vital energy is the most fundamental and important gas in the human body, and when it is insufficient, the body will be weak, the limbs will be powerless, and even go into shock. Ginseng also has the effect of promoting the production of body fluid and quenching thirst, which can treat the symptoms of both gas and fluid injuries. Modern medical research has also confirmed that ginsenosides and ginseng polysaccharides or glycopeptides have obvious hypoglycemic effect, which is beneficial to the treatment of diabetes.

For middle-aged and old-aged diabetic patients with symptoms of weakness, fatigue, cold hands and feet, and thirst and drinking, 3 grams of red ginseng, 5 grams of maitake, 5 grams of raw huangdi, have the effect of benefiting the qi and generating fluids, lowering the sugar and quenching the thirst. The method of taking is as follows: soak the 3 flavors of Chinese medicine in water for 30-60 minutes, then decoct 3 times, each time boil for half an hour with mild fire, combine the liquid of the 3 decoctions and drink it instead of tea.

Finally, it is worth noting that ginseng, when used as a tonic, should be used in small amounts, 1 to 2 grams per day. For those who have serious physical weakness, the dosage can be increased appropriately, but it should not exceed 3 grams. When ginseng is used as a tonic and taken for a long period of time, the dosage should not be too large. The principle of taking ginseng in small doses for a long period of time should be adhered to in order to show the tonic effect. In addition, when taking ginseng, avoid taking radish, strong tea, so as not to weaken the effect of ginseng.

6. Gynostemma

Gynostemma is the whole grass of the genus Gynostemma of the family Cucurbitaceae. It is cold in nature, bitter in taste, with anti-inflammatory and detoxification, cough and expectorant, clearing heat and moistening dryness and other effects.

In recent years, Japanese scholars from the gynostemma in the isolation and identification of 82 kinds of saponins, including a special ingredient called sweet tea tracheophylloside, has a tonic anti-aging, lipid lowering, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer, to eliminate fatigue and other effects. Gynostemma has the effect of lowering blood glucose and improving glucose metabolism, and can significantly improve the low blood glucose tolerance in aged rats.

In recent years, gynostemma as a new raw material for extracting ginsenosides has attracted extensive attention from the world's pharmaceutical industry. Now it has been found that the crude extract of gynostemma and its saponins are very similar to the physiological activity of ginseng, which has the effects of delaying aging, lowering blood lipids, lowering blood glucose, anticancer, regulating immune function, anti-myocardial ischemia, anti-thrombosis, and anti-toxicity and hepatoprotection. Therefore, for middle-aged and elderly patients with type 2 diabetes, often take gibberellic acid is very beneficial.