Diabetes belongs to the category of "thirst-quenching" in traditional Chinese medicine, and our ancients have long discussed this disease. Why? Qi Bo said: The overflow of these five qi is also called spleen. The five flavors of the husband are in the mouth, hidden in the stomach, and the spleen is in the spleen, so it makes the mouth sweet, and the fat is also made, and this person will eat sweet and fat, and the fat makes people hot, and the sweet one makes people full, so its qi overflows, and it turns to quench thirst. ”
This is a conversation between the Yellow Emperor and Qi Bo, which means that the Yellow Emperor asked Qi Bo: Some patients have sweetness in their mouths, what kind of disease is this? How did you get it? Qi Bo replied: This is due to the upward flooding of the essence of food, and the disease is called "spleen disease".
Under normal circumstances, after the food reaches the stomach, it is initially digested and then transported from the spleen to the whole body. If the spleen is hot and loses its normal function, the fluid will stay and overflow upward, so the person will have the symptoms of sweetness in the mouth. This is because of the disease caused by eating too fat.
Most people who suffer from this disease usually like to eat fatty and sweet food, and the thick taste makes people hot inside, and the sweet taste makes people full of stuffiness. Therefore, the food overflows and the taste is sweet, and after a long time, it turns into thirst.
Here, "spleen fistula" is similar to what we call prediabetes in modern medicine, that is, impaired fasting blood sugar and impaired glucose tolerance caused by insulin resistance, and if it is not treated in time, it will develop into thirst, that is, clinical stage diabetes.
Typical symptoms of "three more and one less".
1. Drink more
The early consumption is mainly manifested as thirst, and usually drinking more water will feel more comfortable, which is caused by lung heat injury. For this situation, you can massage the acupoints such as Lung Yu, Hegu, Yuji, and Sanyinjiao to adjust.
Although the lung Yu acupoint belongs to the bladder meridian, it is the dorsal Yu acupoint of the lungs, which is the place where the lung qi gathers, and has a good effect on regulating the lungs. When looking for the lung Yu acupoint, first bow your head, there is a bony protrusion in the middle of the back of the neck, here is the spinous process of the 7th cervical vertebra, count down 3 such protrusions are the spinous process of the 3rd thoracic vertebra, and then 1.5 inches on both sides is this acupoint.
Hegu acupoint is the original acupoint of the large intestine meridian, and the large intestine meridian and the lung meridian are on the surface.
The thenar point is the key point of the lung meridian, which is located in the depression behind the first metacarpophalangeal joint of the thumb, which is approximately equivalent to the red and white flesh of the radius at the midpoint of the first metacarpal bone.
Usually massage these acupuncture points, which has a good effect on blood sugar.
2. Eat more
Once the lungs are dry and hot, the function of its infusion of bujin liquid will be impaired, which will cause stomach dryness and injury, spleen and yin deficiency, and the movement of the spleen and stomach will be inhibited, and the symptoms of Zhongxiao will be produced. Eliminating grain and hunger is a typical symptom of Zhongxiao.
What is Hunger? It is a symptom of fast digestion of food in the stomach caused by the heat of the stomach, which means that you keep eating, but you always feel hungry. Why? It is caused by the heat and heat that hurts the stomach and the stomach is blazing. "The Great Confusion of the Soul" contains: "If the stomach is hot, the valley will be eliminated, and the valley will be good and hungry." "The best way at this time is to reduce the burden on the body, regulate the body, and repair the tired spleen and stomach.
At this time, you should not eat too little staple food (the staple food should be determined according to the specific situation of the individual's work, labor intensity and weight); Usually eat small and frequent meals, and the total amount of food and drink can be divided into 4-5 meals per day; Don't simply eat vegetarian because you are afraid of being greasy, but do a combination of meat and vegetables.
Usually, we can also massage acupuncture points for adjuvant treatment. Among them, the acupoints such as Spleen Yu, Stomach Yu, Zhongguan, and Zusanli can well regulate the function of the spleen and stomach.
The spleen Yu acupoint is the back Yu acupoint of the spleen, and the stomach Yu acupoint is the back Yu acupoint of the stomach, and their main role is to regulate the functions of the corresponding spleen and stomach. The spleen Yu point is on the back, when the spinous process of the 11th thoracic vertebra is under the 1.5 inches. The stomach Yu acupoint is in the lower part of the back, under the spinous process of the 12th thoracic vertebra, from the midline to the left and right sides with the index finger and middle finger together to take 2 horizontal fingers.
3. Polyuria
An obvious feature of diabetes caused by poor kidney function is polyuria, and we can regulate the function of the kidney by massaging the Kidney Yu acupoint, Taixi acupoint, and Sanyin Jiao acupoint.
4. Weight loss
Due to the disorderly work of the stomach, blindly and quickly digesting food, it will inevitably increase the workload of spleen and blood, resulting in spleen heat. Stomach heat and spleen heat speed up the body's metabolism, resulting in emaciation and fatigue.