According to WHO, there are not only about 1. 1 100 million diabetic patients in China. What is more noteworthy is that nearly 500 million adults are in pre-diabetes.
In other words, basically one in every two people in China is diabetic or pre-diabetic.
These three are "natural enemies" of diabetes.
corn stigma
The earliest medical record of corn stigma is contained in "South Yunnan Materia Medica", which is commonly used in herbal tea and diet as a common drug for treating diabetes and hypertension. The nature of corn is sweet and flat, and it belongs to the stomach and bladder meridian, which has the functions of strengthening the spleen and benefiting the stomach, promoting diuresis and infiltrating dampness.
According to "journal of traditional chinese medicine", 79 cases of type 2 diabetes were treated with corn stigma soup in clinic, and the results showed that it was helpful to reduce fasting blood glucose and postprandial blood glucose.
A large number of studies show that corn stigma contains many chemical components beneficial to human body, such as saponins, flavonoids, alkaloids, organic acids, volatile oil, trace elements and vitamins.
In addition, corn stigma also contains chromium, which is a component of glucose tolerance factor and can strengthen insulin function. Flavonoids in corn stigma can reduce the generation of free radicals and scavenge free radicals, and have good antioxidant capacity. Moreover, the water extract of corn stigma has higher scavenging capacity than soybean isoflavones, which can prevent diabetic complications.
dandelion
Dandelion is sweet in nature, slightly bitter and cold. Liver and stomach meridians entered. It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass, and promoting diuresis and stranguria. Regular consumption of dandelion can promote liver detoxification and avoid damage to the liver.
Numerous studies have shown that insulin resistance is closely related to inflammation. Dandelion contains broad-spectrum anti-inflammatory components, which are widely used in multi-system inflammation-related diseases, and dandelion polysaccharide is also beneficial to lowering blood sugar.
Yuzhugen
Polygonatum odoratum is one of the traditional Chinese medicines with hypoglycemic effect in Chinese Pharmacopoeia, which can relieve symptoms such as thirst, dry mouth, fever and irritability caused by diabetes.
In the Wei and Jin dynasties, the medicine book "Daming Materia Medica" recorded that Polygonatum odoratum "relieves boredom, quenches thirst, moistens the heart and lungs, and makes up for fatigue, waist and foot pain." Symptoms such as thirst, dry mouth, fever and irritability caused by diabetes can be treated with some Polygonatum odoratum diet.
Modern medical research also shows that Polygonatum odoratum contains many kinds of glycosides and nutrients such as amino acids, zinc and manganese, which can protect the heart and blood vessels, clean up the garbage in the body and delay aging.