In addition to paying attention to diet and doing more exercise, western medicine controls the condition by drugs, and Chinese medicine also has some prescriptions for medicated diet and tea, which can help keep blood sugar stable.

In Chinese medicine, diabetes refers to "diabetes". Chen Wangquan, a professor in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a Chinese medicine practitioner after his bachelor's degree in Yishou University, pointed out that in ancient times, the problem of diabetes was unknown, but it depended on the patient's "three digestion", that is, there were cases of excessive thirst, excessive eating and excessive urination.

Losing weight 10% can improve insulin secretion.

Diabetes is related to congenital deficiency (so-called genes and heredity). Weakness combined with malnutrition, especially in the early days, always leads to excessive eating, excessive drinking or excessive drinking during holidays, resulting in internal heat and loss of body fluids, or "seven emotions are sick and overworked", that is, great joy and great sorrow, excessive emotional pressure, or anger hurting the liver, affecting the function of liver-sugar conversion, imbalance of five internal organs.

It is more common for modern people that women have abnormal blood sugar during pregnancy due to endocrine changes, resulting in gestational diabetes, or giving birth to a giant baby, obesity, abnormal metabolism, or accidental damage to the pancreas in a car accident, or drug injuries such as eating too many steroids, diuretics, estrogen, etc., leading to diabetes. If it is caused by obesity, Chen Wangquan said that patients can effectively improve insulin secretion as long as they can lose 5 ~10%.

The initial symptoms of "diabetes" are not obvious. Patients often find themselves suffering from diabetes only when they feel tired or have other related diseases, such as thirst, excessive urine, hunger, blurred vision, emaciation, difficult wound healing, itchy skin and numbness of hands and feet.

Diet control is the most important

For diabetics, diet control is the most important. Chen Wangquan emphasized that white rice, white flour or exquisite dessert cakes are not suitable for starch that can easily lead to an increase in blood sugar. It is best to choose whole grains such as millet and oats as staple foods, and those with shells or germs are also good, except for polysaccharides rich in vitamins and high in soluble or insoluble cellulose, which is compound starch. The slow digestion and absorption time will delay the increase in blood sugar.

Diabetic patients can often eat food with low sugar content which is helpful for blood sugar control. They should eat at least 3 servings of vegetables and 2 servings of fruit 1 day, and the amount should not exceed half a bowl each time. Moreover, fruits with high sweetness should be restrained, and minerals should be supplemented, especially chromium (which has effects on insulin cells), zinc, magnesium, calcium, selenium, etc., including whole grains in addition to leafy vegetables.

Exercise is necessary to lower blood sugar.

Diabetic patients must exercise. Chen Wangquan pointed out that exercise can increase the absorption of glucose in blood by muscles, and help the conversion, storage and metabolism of liver sugar to avoid the rapid rise of blood sugar. It is recommended to take a walk 15 minutes after three meals a day to promote muscle absorption of glucose in blood.

In addition, 2 ~ 3 times of inertia exercise per week should be maintained, and brisk walking or swimming are all suitable exercises; If it is inconvenient to go out for exercise, it is suggested to do fitness exercises indoors, such as "scissors exercises". Doing15 ~ 20 minutes every day will have a good exercise effect.

Blood sugar control medicinal diet tea

● Guava tea

Materials: sun-dried young leaves of guava 10g, sun-dried immature fruit slices of guava 10g, and green tea 5g.

Practice:

1. Use1000 c.c. water to boil the sun-dried young leaves and fruit slices for about 20 minutes.

2. Remove the residue from the boiled guava water and let it cool for later use.

3. Put the green tea in the cold guava water and soak it in the refrigerator for one night, then it can be used as tea.

Efficacy: it can nourish yin and reduce blood sugar, and is suitable for diabetic patients with yin deficiency to replenish water for drinking.

● Yam pollen oatmeal

Materials: yam 10g, trichosanthin 10g, oat 30g.

Practice:

1. Wash the material.

2. Depending on personal preference, add appropriate amount of water and cook for 25 minutes to make porridge edible.

Efficacy: It can clear away heat, promote fluid production, benefit qi and nourish yin, and help to control blood sugar. It can be used as a staple food.

● Tomato pumpkin walnut soup

Ingredients: tomato 20g, pumpkin 20g, walnut 10g.

Practice:

1. Wash and cook tomatoes for later use.

2. Wash and steam the pumpkin for later use.

3. Put tomatoes, pumpkins and walnuts into a food conditioner, add a proper amount of warm water, make juice, and drink it while it is warm.

Efficacy: It can tonify the middle energizer, invigorate the spleen and stimulate appetite. It is suitable for diabetics to eat as a snack and has health care function.