
The treatment on diabetes employed by herbalist doctor has owned a long history. Especially in recent 30 years, along with the fast development of modern science, the technique which combines Chinese traditional medicine with the Western medicine has a obvious advantage on the diabetic treatment.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the disease is categorized as "xiao ke"which means diabetes.
1. The characteristics of a typical case of diabetes mellitus are often polyphagia, polydipsia, polyuria and loss of body weight. Early or asymptomatic patients only show abnormal release of cortical hormone and insulin inside the body. The level of fasting blood sugar is elevated with abnormal glucose tolerance test. Svm0tomatic patients are frequently complicat-ed by other symptoms of dermal, neural and endocrinous disor-ders, besides polyphogia, polydipsia, polyuria and loss of body weight.
2. The main complications and concomitant diseases of di-abetes mellitus are diabetic ketoacidosis, cardiovascular dis-eases, diabetic renopathy and peripheral neuropathy. Cardio- vascular complications are the chief causes of death.
3. Diabetes mellitus is classified into juvenile and adult types according to the clinical features. The age of onset of the juvenile type is young and has a tendency to inheritance. Blood sugar fluctuates widely and is quite sensitive to insulin. Treat-ment is difficult and is easily complicated by ketoacidosis and hypoglycemia, and so it is often named insulin-depending dia-betes or unstable diabetes. The age of onset of adult type is above 40. This type is relatively mild and can be controlled by dietary restriction or oral antidiabetics. Therefore it is also named non-insulin depending diabetes or stable diabetes.
The macroscopical regulation could prevent and cure several of complications which are cause by diabetes. The rise of blood dense degree, mass rate of blood fat and blood platelet in the sufferers' body could cause some complications, which could be the foundations of some serious illnesses like blood vessel disease in the heart and brain, pathological changes in blood vessel and the hurt in some important viscera. Go with the sugar-decline function, It can limit the blood dense degree and the blood fat rate by benefit Qi and activating blood circulation, so it can prevent and cure the complications.