Diabetes is a common metabolic disorder of the endocrine system, which falls under the category of "thirst-consuming" in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is characterized by polydipsia, polyphagia, polyuria, weight loss, glycosuria, and increased blood sugar levels. Diabetes can be divided into primary and secondary types, with primary diabetes further classified into type 1 and type 2, and secondary diabetes being less common. The pathogenesis of diabetes is mainly due to the absolute or relative deficiency of insulin, leading to disorders of sugar metabolism, resulting in excessively high blood sugar and urine sugar levels. This, in turn, leads to disorders of fat and protein metabolism, and is more common after middle age, with a slightly higher prevalence in men than in women. Etiology: Insufficient constitution, overindulgence in fatty and sweet foods, emotional imbalance, and excessive desires and labor. Pathogenesis: Deficiency of Yin essence and excessive dry heat. Location of the disease: Lung, stomach, and kidney, with the kidney being particularly crucial. Modern research indicates that moxibustion can comprehensively and multi-dimensionally enhance the metabolism of sugar, fat, and protein in diabetic patients. It can also reduce insulin resistance by increasing the body's sensitivity to insulin, protecting insulin-producing beta cells, and enhancing the blood sugar-lowering activity of insulin, thus more durably and stably controlling blood sugar levels.
Upper Consumption (Lung Heat and Fluid Injury): Thirst with increased drinking, dry mouth and tongue, frequent urination with large volume. Thin yellow coating, pulse surging and rapid.
Middle Consumption (Internal Heat and Blazing): Increased appetite with easy hunger, thirst, frequent urination, weight loss, and dry stools. Yellow coating, pulse smooth, full, and forceful.
Lower Consumption (Kidney Yin Deficiency): Frequent urination with a large volume, turbid like grease. Sweet-smelling urine, soreness in the waist and knees, fatigue, dizziness, tinnitus, dry mouth and lips, dry and itchy skin. Red tongue with thin coating, pulse fine and rapid.
Yin and Yang Deficiency: Frequent urination, turbid and creamy, even to the point of urinating immediately after drinking. Haggard facial appearance, dry earlobes, soreness in the waist and knees, cold limbs, aversion to cold and cold extremities, impotence or menstrual irregularities. Pale and dry tongue coating, pulse deep, thin, and weak.
It is recommended to perform moxibustion once a day, targeting 2 to 3 acupoints each time, with each acupoint being treated for 30 to 40 minutes. Rotate the points treated, with a 10-day period constituting one course of treatment, and then rest for 2 to 3 days before continuing with the next course. (If time permits and there is a need, more acupoints can be treated with moxibustion. The specific duration should be adjusted according to one's own physical needs.)
1. Patients should control their diet according to their condition, strengthen physical exercise, control weight, and reduce the risk factors for diabetes. 2. Abandon bad daily habits, such as smoking, drinking alcohol, and drinking strong tea. Maintain a peaceful mood, regular life, and a balance of work and rest. 3. Dietary therapy recipe: Mulberry Leaf Fluid-Generating Drink, 10 grams of mulberry leaves, 6 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, and 6 grams of Chinese yam, ground together, used as a tea infusion, one dose per day.