Professor Lu Renhe, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, has been treating diabetes for more than 60 years. His clinical effect on diabetes and its complications is remarkable. He also has a very good "recipe" for the diet of diabetes. Diabetic patients can eat according to the "recipe", which can keep blood sugar stable and healthy.
(1) Candidate Diet Based on Syndrome Differentiation
① Fever of Yang: The common clinical symptoms are: hunger, eating less, dry stool, red tongue, thick yellow coating and rapid pulse;
Three-in-one steamed bread can be made into porridge with or without skin and hair. Choose 2 ~ 3 kinds of celery, spinach, bitter gourd, pumpkin, carrot, radish and white radish, or steam or boil them to make vegetable dumplings, steamed bread, jiaozi, etc., which can satisfy hunger, relieve constipation and clear yang.
② Damp-heat of spleen and stomach: Common symptoms include fullness in chest and abdomen, fullness after swallowing, muscle aches, heavy limbs, reddish tongue, yellow greasy tongue coating, and slippery pulse.
Coix seed porridge; White radish, fennel, wax gourd and radish stuffed with a small amount of leek or green garlic to make steamed buns or jiaozi; Stir-fried bitter gourd, wax gourd, garlic sprout, etc.
③ Phlegm heat accumulation: common halitosis, constipation, yellow and greasy tongue coating.
Add ginger and pepper to white radish porridge and coriander, chopped green onion and ginger to winter melon soup.
④ Alcoholism injury: white radish and water radish mixed with onion; Vinegar mixed vegetables, you can sip 1 ~ 2 mouthfuls of vinegar while eating vegetables.
⑤ Excess heat in lung and stomach: typical manifestations: polydipsia and chills.
Millet, mung bean and white radish porridge; Green bean sprouts mixed with spinach can be mixed with vermicelli. Seasoning: rice vinegar, refined salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil.
⑥ Stagnation of qi and heat: Common symptoms include chest tightness, shortness of breath, fullness in chest and hypochondrium, bitter mouth and dry throat, impatience and irritability, thin and dark red tongue coating, thin and yellow tongue coating and rapid pulse.
White radish, water radish, leek jiaozi; White shredded radish with blisters; Bean sprouts mixed with vermicelli.
⑦ Heat poisoning injury: mix mung bean sprouts; Mung bean sprouts, shepherd's purse, Chinese cabbage, radish and Chinese cabbage can be cooked, made into steamed buns and jiaozi, mixed with noodles or cooked with porridge.
⑧ Yin injury and dryness-heat: The common symptoms are dry stool, yellow urine, dry nose, less runny nose, more urine, more food and hunger, dry eyes and less tears, cough and less phlegm, dry tongue, yellow and rough fur and thready pulse.
Mix radish, bitter gourd, celery, rape, cucumber, lettuce, Chinese cabbage and white radish, or make stuffing, and make into steamed buns, jiaozi or dumplings.
(2) Dialectical choice of diet
① Deficiency of both qi and yin: cowpea rice, cowpea porridge, coix seed porridge and mung bean rice lotus seed porridge; Yam; Milk is made into various dairy products or added to your favorite foods.
② Yin deficiency of liver and kidney: glutinous rice porridge, mung bean porridge, fried bitter gourd, celery, white radish, water radish, mung bean sprouts and wolfberry fruit; Milk is made into various dairy products or added to your favorite foods.
③ Yang deficiency of spleen and kidney: leek, garlic sprout, fennel, Chinese cabbage, yam, potato, soybean sprout and carrot. Milk is made into various dairy products or added to your favorite foods.
In short, diet is an extremely important part of diabetes management. First of all, patients determine the total calories needed for a day according to the gap between their actual weight and standard weight and the amount of activity. Secondly, according to living conditions and habits, arrange the weight and time of meals. In addition, on the basis of a balanced diet, choose the corresponding food according to the deficiency of cold and heat. When eating, control the total amount, eat as little as possible, and be not hungry, that is, eat only seven or eight points full, mainly vegetarian, supplemented by others, and have balanced nutrition; Eat soup and vegetables first, and then eat staple food and meat when you are full.
The content of this article is excerpted from "Lu Renhe's Experience in Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetes" published by China Traditional Chinese Medicine Publishing House, by Jinxi Zhao, etc. Editor/Proofreader/Maruko's father. Copyright belongs to the relevant obligee. Please feel free to contact me if you use it improperly.