Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the occurrence of diabetes is related to diet, and the quality of diet control directly affects the therapeutic effect. Sun Simiao was the first pioneer in the world to put forward dietotherapy. He once advised diabetics to be "cautious, one is drinking, the other is eating salty food, and the third is eating noodles." Tang Wangtao also proposed restricting rice, meat and fruit. They all stressed that if they don't eat well, "even if there is an elixir, it can't be saved!"

Physicians of past dynasties have also summed up many herbal dietary remedies in their long-term medical practice. For example, 1 pig pancreas is dried at low temperature and ground into powder, 9 grams each time, twice a day; Sandou drink: 100g mung bean, 50g black bean and 50g red bean are decocted and taken; Stir-fried meat with bitter gourd: fresh bitter gourd 100g, 50g lean meat, eaten after being fried with fire, etc. But when taking these prescriptions, you should also count them in the daily intake of calories.

2, must cooperate with the movement

The theory of pathogenic factors in stages suggests that diabetic patients should "take 120 steps before eating." The Secret of Foreign Taiwan Province also emphasizes: "Take a walk after meals, and sit more freely", and advocates taking a walk in court after every meal. It shows that proper exercise is one of the effective measures to prevent and treat diabetes, which is completely consistent with the understanding of modern medicine.

The choice of exercise mode and intensity for diabetic patients should be appropriate. It should be done step by step under the guidance of a doctor. "Don't be tired" and "Don't be strong." There are many kinds of exercises, such as walking, brisk walking, aerobics, Tai Ji Chuan, skating, swimming and disco dancing for the elderly. Excessive exercise intensity or long activity time will cause fatigue and aggravate the condition. In particular, patients with severe insulin deficiency and patients with coronary heart disease and kidney disease should limit their activities. However, the intensity of exercise is too small to play a therapeutic role, so Tai Ji Chuan is especially recommended. It has the characteristics of relaxation, naturalness, stretching and softness, and is the most suitable exercise form for diabetic patients.

3. Pay attention to your mood.

The occurrence and development of diabetes is related to emotions. Therefore, it is necessary to educate diabetic patients to treat life and diseases correctly, "save their emotions" and "reduce their thinking". Maintain emotional stability and blood circulation, which is conducive to disease control and rehabilitation.

4. Appropriate Chinese medicine treatment

Chinese medicine treatment of diabetes is based on clinical symptoms. With the development of modern medical diagnosis technology, we should not only stay at the analysis level of three diseases, but also include all indicators that can reflect various conditions, including modern medical examination items, and combine TCM syndrome differentiation with Western medicine syndrome differentiation.

In clinical treatment, we first gave the newly diagnosed patient self-care measures for diabetes mellitus, and asked him to control his diet for 1-2 months, together with exercise therapy. If the blood sugar drops obviously, it can be maintained. If the control is not ideal, it will be treated with traditional Chinese medicine. Generally divided into yin deficiency type, qi and yin deficiency type and yin and yang deficiency type.

(1) yin deficiency and dryness-heat (seen in the early stage of diabetes)

It is characterized by polydipsia, dry throat and tongue, excessive hunger, red tongue with little body fluid, yellow fur and smooth or thin pulse.

Nourishing yin and clearing heat.

Adding Yiguanjian (Radix Rehmanniae 30g, Radix Adenophorae 10g, Fructus Lycii 10g, Radix Ophiopogonis 10g, Radix Angelicae Sinensis 10g, Fructus Toosendan 10g, Rhizoma Coptidis 10g, Radix Puerariae 30g.

(2) Deficiency of both Qi and Yin (seen in the middle stage of diabetes)

It is characterized by fatigue, shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating, increased exercise, dry mouth, excessive drinking and urination, upset and fever, constipation, soreness of waist and knees, and pale or dark tongue. Tooth marks on the edge of tongue, thin white coating with little body fluid, or less coating, and thin pulse.

The method of supplementing qi and nourishing yin was adopted.

Shengmai Powder is used for flavor enhancement (Radix Pseudostellariae 30g, Radix Ophiopogonis 15g, Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis 10g, Radix Rehmanniae 30g, Radix Astragali 30g, Rhizoma Atractylodis 10g, Radix Scrophulariae 15g, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae 30g, Radix Puerariae 30g).

(3) Deficiency of both yin and yang (seen in diabetic patients with a long course of disease)

It is characterized by mental fatigue, spontaneous sweating, cold limbs, soreness of the waist and knees, dry helix, excessive drinking and diuresis, turbid as ointment, edema and oliguria, or diarrhea, impotence and premature ejaculation, pale tongue with white fur, heavy and thin pulse and weakness.

The treatment was warming yang and nourishing yin.

Jinkui Shenqi Pill (Cinnamomum cassia 10g, Radix Aconiti Lateralis 10g, Radix Rehmanniae 10g, Poria 10g, Fructus Corni 10g, Rhizoma Dioscoreae 10g, Cortex Moutan 10g.