TCM Methods for Treating High Blood Sugar

High blood sugar is a common disease. If you have high blood sugar, you must prevent diabetes, because diabetes is a disease of the rich, and you cannot eat many foods. When checking blood sugar, if it is high, you must lower it as soon as possible. There are many ways to teach blood sugar, and Chinese medicine also has some unique methods. So what are the methods of Chinese medicine to regulate high blood sugar?

TCM Methods for Treating High Blood Sugar

1. Massage method for regulating high blood sugar

1.1. Taixi Point: Located on the inner side of the foot, behind the medial malleolus, in the depression between the tip of the medial malleolus and the Achilles tendon. You can use your thumb or middle finger to massage for 3 to 5 minutes until the local soreness and swelling are relieved.

1.2. Xuehai Point: Bend your knees, place your palms down, fingertips pointing to the thighs, press on the patella, and press your thumb on the inner thigh. The Xuehai Point is about 2 inches above the inner end of the patellar bottom. You can use your thumb or middle finger to massage for 3 to 5 minutes until the local soreness and swelling are relieved.

TCM Methods for Treating High Blood Sugar

1.3. Pancreas reflex zone: Stimulation at the base of the big toe on the inner side of the foot with warm water, medicine or manipulation will be transmitted to the pancreas through the reflex channel, slowly reviving its function. You can rub and pinch it every day. Be careful to be gentle and not use too much force. Each time, about 1 to 3 minutes.

2. Chinese herbal medicines for treating high blood sugar

2.1. Corn silk: Saponins in corn silk can play a hypoglycemic effect. Corn silk fermentation agent has a significant blood sugar-lowering effect on experimental animal diabetes, and has an improving effect on diabetic hypertension and kidney disease. Clinically, 45 grams of corn silk, 30 grams of astragalus, 15 grams of white atractylodes and 1 pig pancreas are stewed.

2.2. Wolfberry: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that diabetes is caused by Yin deficiency and dryness and heat as symptoms, and wolfberry nourishes the Yin of the liver and kidneys, so it has a certain blood sugar-lowering effect. Studies have found that wolfberry extract has a significant and lasting hypoglycemic effect on diabetic animals, can increase serum insulin levels, repair damaged pancreatic cells, and enhance glucose tolerance. Use 25 grams each of wolfberry, schisandra, polygonatum, and scrophularia every day, decoct the juice and drink it instead of tea, which can also improve the symptoms of diabetes.

3. Chinese medicine remedies for high blood sugar

3.1. 30 grams of astragalus, 60 grams of yam, and 100 grams of polished rice. Boil the astragalus and yam into juice, remove the residue, add into rice and cook into porridge for consumption. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen and replenishing Qi, and is especially suitable for patients with hyperglycemia who have symptoms such as fatigue, weakness, and poor spirits.

TCM Methods for Treating High Blood Sugar

3.2. Take 30g each of ginseng root, adenophora, anemarrhena, polygonatum, yam, fresh rehmannia, and black plum, an old male duck, a little onion, ginger, and salt. After cooking, eat the meat and drink the soup. It has the effect of invigorating qi and nourishing yin, and is especially suitable for patients with hyperglycemia who have symptoms such as dry mouth, fatigue, etc.

3.3. Cook 30 grams of coix seeds, 20 grams of yam and 60 grams of polished rice into porridge and eat once a day. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, and is especially suitable for patients with hyperglycemia who have symptoms such as fatigue, tiredness, abdominal distension, loose stools or diarrhea.

3.4. Cook 30 grams of fresh lily, 20 grams of lotus seeds and 60 grams of polished rice into porridge, once a day. It has the effect of nourishing the heart and calming the mind, and is especially suitable for patients with high blood sugar who have symptoms such as insomnia, restlessness, nightmares, palpitations, restlessness, and weight loss.