At present, the treatment of diabetes in traditional Chinese medicine is mature and helpful, especially for patients with type 2 diabetes, which can be adjusted by using the methods of traditional Chinese medicine for reference. However, don't think about separating Chinese medicine from western medicine. They have their own characteristics and have different advantages for different symptoms. Combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine is more suitable for treating diabetes. For example, a potted flower is dying, and western medicine can inject it with some nutrients, which can directly aim at its withering and make it bloom again; Traditional Chinese medicine, on the other hand, loosens the soil, repels insects, waters it, or changes a place more suitable for its growth, so that it can "cheer up" itself and blossom again through its own strength. Then which method do you suggest is better? Naturally, it improves its growth conditions, gives it some nutrition, and makes it recover faster and grow healthier.

However, for patients with type 1 diabetes, it is more difficult to rely on traditional Chinese medicine for treatment. Due to some factors (such as virus destroying islet cells, congenital islet defects, etc. ), 1 type diabetes mellitus patients' islet cells are damaged in a large area, unable to secrete or secrete enough insulin, and their blood sugar fluctuates violently, so it is very necessary to rely on insulin supplementation in vitro to stabilize blood sugar. The concept of TCM itself is similar to "encouragement, assistance and awakening". However, if this person's islet can hardly secrete insulin, the original things have been exhausted, and no matter how we encourage it and assist it, it is impossible to wake it up. In other words, the course of treatment required by Chinese medicine is too long, or the effect is too little, so patients can't stand waiting and suffering, such as continuous weight loss, uncontrollable blood sugar and body biting pain. Maybe people fell down before they recovered.

Although Chinese medicine can improve some patients' hunger, thirst, polyuria and other problems, and reduce the occurrence of diabetic complications, the ability of Chinese medicine to control blood sugar is not obvious. If the blood sugar is not well controlled, patients will not get better glucose, and their health will go from bad to worse, resulting in life-threatening ketoacidosis. Western medicine can quickly keep blood sugar stable through insulin input instead of insulin in the body, which can not only better relieve symptoms, but also avoid some dangerous situations. Of course, you said that this is a temporary solution, not a permanent cure, and it is true. Insulin injection can only maintain the current blood sugar state for a few hours, but at least it is a way to ensure that patients do not have dangerous situations. Traditional Chinese medicine is a better way to deal with some "chronic diseases", but there are two kinds of emergencies in diabetes.

Most patients with type 2 diabetes are caused by obesity, inappropriate lifestyle and poor diet. Their insulin can't act on the target cells better, resulting in low ability and efficiency. However, their islet cells exist or most of them can work, and their islets still have hope and can be rescued. "Encourage, encourage and stimulate", and they will have hope of recovery. At this time, it is a very good method to treat with the method of combining traditional Chinese and western medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine tries to cure the root cause, while western medicine improves the symptoms and treats the symptoms. Isn't it better? Many clinical cases have found that traditional Chinese medicine plays a great auxiliary role in the prevention and treatment of complications of type 2 diabetes, such as hypoglycemia, dizziness, hyperhidrosis, insomnia, palpitation, five-upset fever and other symptoms, which can improve the quality of life of patients.

Diabetes mellitus is a kind of "spleen furuncle" in traditional Chinese medicine, that is, the spleen almost loses its transport ability and cannot send glucose to cells all over the body. If there is heat in the spleen, the body fluid will not overflow, and people will turn the sweetness in their mouths into diabetes, because eating too much is fat and sweet, leading to overeating. Chinese medicine will start with the spleen, assist it to make it strong again, start with the kidney, make it free from the influence of the spleen, and start with the stomach to make it work and digest food better again. Therefore, it is very knowledgeable to improve type 2 diabetes in Chinese medicine.

But remember, when to use Chinese medicine, when to use western medicine, when to combine the two, and when to stop using western medicine are very important, which are all decided by specialists. We can't buy Chinese medicine ourselves. We must have a doctor from the Diabetes Department of Chinese Medicine to give us a prescription and buy medicine through the prescription.