There is a self-media release entitled "Diabetes is saved! This secret recipe can not only lower blood sugar, but also lower blood pressure and prevent myocardial infarction. It is said that a 55-year-old man often feels thirsty and always wants to drink more water. He feels hungry immediately after eating, and often has leg cramps, cold sweat and other symptoms. So I went to the hospital for a general examination. The doctor diagnosed it as diabetes, and sometimes my blood sugar was as high as 25. Insisting on taking medicine did not aggravate the condition, but it did not get much improvement. Later, I made a folk prescription-stewed chicken with green lemon, and my blood sugar dropped. After that, my diabetes didn't recur for more than ten years.

The report also said that in addition to diet therapy, massage can also be used to lower blood sugar. Cheng Kai, a professor at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and vice president of the Acupoint Branch of the Chinese Acupuncture Association, believes that "acupoints and drugs are of the same origin". Everyone's body is a hundred medicine boxes, and the drugs contained in them are acupoints. Diabetes also has its corresponding "medical acupoints".

Rumors:

With people's increasing concern about health issues and the wide application of new media, health articles are coming in an overwhelming number. For those who have no medical foundation, it seems that every article makes sense, and it is difficult to judge whether it is "true knowledge" or "rumor".

"Rumor articles" often have the following characteristics:

1, the topic caters to people's psychology, and the simple "secret recipe" cures "incurable diseases".

The diseases mentioned in this kind of articles are often difficult to cure, long-term, chronic and widespread. The proposed treatment or health care methods are simple and "magical", such as eating eggplant raw and drinking mung bean water, which is very in line with the market demand and easy to be widely spread.

The title of the article is "Diabetes is saved! This secret recipe can not only significantly lower blood sugar, but also lower blood pressure and prevent myocardial infarction, which is very consistent with the title characteristics of "rumor article".

Diabetes is a progressive, chronic and lifelong disease. Once the diagnosis is made, it needs multi-dimensional treatment such as comprehensive medicine, diet and exercise, so people will seek the "secret recipe" for the end of diabetes, which makes these articles widely circulated.

2. The professional content is confusing and the case is exaggerated.

Rumor articles generally lack professionalism, often fail to explain diseases correctly or clearly, and cases are exaggerated.

The patient mentioned in the article is 55 years old and his blood sugar is 25. Diagnosed as diabetes, oral medication is ineffective. First, there is no mention of the unit of measurement of blood sugar; Second, there is no mention of fasting or postprandial blood glucose values; Third, it is not clear what type of diabetes is and what drugs are ineffective when taken orally.

First of all, the clinical diagnosis of diabetes is that the fasting blood glucose is greater than or equal to 6. 1mmol/L, and/or the blood glucose is greater than or equal to 7.9mmol/L two hours after meals. And the doctor will find out whether it belongs to 1 type diabetes or type 2 diabetes. 1 type diabetes is insufficient insulin secretion, oral hypoglycemic agents are ineffective, and insulin injection is needed for treatment. Type 2 diabetes is insulin resistance, which is relatively insufficient. 90% of patients have type 2 diabetes, so oral drugs are the first choice.

Therefore, the patient's blood sugar level is so high (25) that it belongs to severe diabetes, and it is prone to ketoacidosis or other complications in clinic, so it is obviously exaggerated, which confuses the classification and treatment of diabetes and misleads readers.

3. The expert's remarks taken out of context are hard to distinguish between true and false.

In order to enhance the credibility of the article, some experts' comments often incorporate "rumor articles", but they are often taken out of context and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.

The theory of "homology of drugs and acupoints" mentioned by expert Cheng Kai means that the prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine are similar to acupoints for treating diseases. It does not mean that acupoints are homologous to western medicine, and the use of acupoints can replace western medicine instead of western medicine. This is obviously stealing the column to generalize.

Chinese medicine pays attention to syndrome differentiation and treatment, and diabetes belongs to the category of "quenching thirst" in Chinese medicine. According to the different symptoms and the severity of the disease, diabetes can be divided into three types: upper, middle and lower.

In acupuncture clinic, we need to select points based on syndrome differentiation to regulate blood sugar. Gu Ran, Zusanli and Sanyinjiao are commonly used. According to the different symptoms of "Sanduo", you can choose the following acupoints to match:

Laughing too much yin is related to deficiency of lung yin and lung heat. Shang Xiao and Xiao Zhong chose acupuncture points inaccurately. Both thenar and inner chamber have the function of clearing heat, but they have no function of nourishing yin.

Diuresis is related to deficiency of kidney yin and kidney deficiency, and Guanyuan point is commonly used in acupuncture to nourish yin and tonify kidney. It is not recommended that a single acupoint participate in the treatment of diabetes, because a single acupoint has no obvious effect, and the acupoint formula should be formulated according to different situations.

. Rumor expert: Professor Cheng Kai from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.

Expert: Professor Cheng, chief physician of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated to Capital Medical University.

Producer: Cop China-Scientific Refutation