Many people want me to talk about diabetes, and today I will tell you a story about a diabetic patient in the ward. Wang Moumou, a 55-year-old male, has been suffering from diabetes for ten years. I have been using insulin to control my blood sugar, I feel good about myself, I don’t measure my blood sugar frequently, and I don’t take other medicines. When the children brought him, he was dizzy and weak, unable to walk, and came with a wheelchair.
Why has the patient insisted on taking insulin for ten years, but the blood sugar is still not under control? After inquiring, I learned that he has been using the basal insulin of Deshi to control blood sugar. He has neither taken medicine nor paid attention to other problems. He only chose to seek medical treatment when he felt really unwell in the end.
After a long time, various problems followed, such as a large appetite, a large amount of water, frequent urination, and frequent sweating. Diagnosed by the hospital as diabetes mellitus, urine sugar +++. Look at the tongue coating, slightly yellowish, dull tongue. Delicate pulse.
So he was given a set of prescriptions to take under the supervision of his family.
Composition;Codonopsis, Astragalus, Pollen, Pueraria, Lycium barbarum, Zhigancao, Huai Yam, Turmeric, Salvia, Bergamot, Mulberry parasitic, Qin Ji.
Let’s take a look at this recipe. Today we only talk about the most important herbs. Patients with dry mouth always try to relieve it by drinking more water. This is because the patient’s spleen is deficient. The spleen is the biochemical source of qi, blood and body fluids. Once the spleen is deficient, body fluids cannot be distributed. In addition, the lungs are the engine that distributes body fluids. If the spleen and lungs are weak, body fluids cannot be produced, and the mouth will be dry and thirsty. Using Codonopsis to invigorate the spleen and lungs, promote body fluid and nourish blood, is of great help to the patient’s symptoms.
There are also two important medicinal materials, namely astragalus and yam. These two herbs are also spleen-tonifying. Why so much emphasis on nourishing the spleen? Insufficient spleen yang, weak transportation and transformation, abnormal water and fluid distribution, unable to nourish the whole body, it will be excreted in urine, and the patient will urinate frequently and urinate more. In this way, adding astragalus to strengthen the spleen and nourish the spleen, yam nourishes the spleen and stomach, improves body metabolism, promotes the production of body fluid, and also improves the symptoms of dizziness, fatigue, and weight loss of the limbs.
After four doses, the patient’s symptoms of urine glucose improved, and all other symptoms improved. Continue to take it, wait for the next follow-up visit, and then add or subtract according to the situation.
It is an old saying that many kinds of imbalances in the body can lead to various diseases. When treating, it is necessary to identify each person’s syndrome according to the specific situation, and then Taking specific measures is also the characteristic of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment.