Traditional Chinese Medicine And Diabetes Treatment

Diabetes Treatment: With Chinese Traditional Medicine

In Chinese Traditional Medicine Diabetes is referred to as the Wasting-Thirst Syndrome. Diabetes Treatment from the Chinese perspective is to treat a yin deficiency along with a heat pathogen that affects the lungs, stomach and kidneys. When ones body is Yin deficient heat is produced. When heat is produced it in turn burns up Yin. With traditional Chinese Medicine diabetes treatment includes looking at the person’s whole lifestyle; too much spicy and drying foods, insufficient rest, overwork and too much sexual activity are all believed to cause a constitutional yin deficiency, which is symptomatic in Diabetes.

The most common symptoms that manifest in Diabetes are excessive thirst, hunger and frequent urination. When giving Diabetes treatment the Chinese medical practitioner looks into these three symptoms because in Chinese medicine they are associated with upper, middle and lower aspects of the body. These three sections of the body are called the upper, middle and lower burners. Thus, diabetes is categorized as upper, middle or lower burning Wasting-Thirst patterns of disharmony.

The excessive thirst in Diabetes is related to the upper burner. So before Diabetes treatment begins the practitioner checks for symptoms associated with Heat in the Lungs, which is related to the upper burner. Aside the obvious excessive thirst, the other symptoms associated with Diabetes and the upper burner is rapid thin pulse, and a red dry tongue with perhaps a yellow coating. With middle burner symptoms known as fire in the stomach, which is symptomatic of constant hunger, the pulse is rapid and more forceful with a red tongue that has a yellow coat. Finally with the lower burner the symptoms are related to the yin kidney deficiency causing frequent urination. Once again the pulse is rapid and thin and the tongue is red and slightly coated.

With a Yin deficiency the heat produced causes one’s Qi or (life force energy) to become deficient as well and the body fluids dry causing a thickening of the blood. When you have a Qi deficiency you become fatigued and develop blood stasis, which causes circulatory problems to accompany these disharmonious patterns occurring in ones body.

Diabetes Treatment in Chinese Traditional Medicine focuses on nourishing the Yin and clearing the heat, which restores balance in the body’s triple burners. Since more than one burner may be effected treatment is involved in taking a holistic approach. While addressing the underlying condition in the diabetes treatments secondary treatments are considered to treat the other disharmonious patterns such as Qi deficiency and blood stasis as well.

Chinese practitioners do not stop their patients from taking the conventional medicines but treat the body to lower its glucose levels so a reduction of medication may result. Diabetes Treatments include acupuncture, herbs and in some cases Qi Gong Exercises.

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