Diabetes Less need for insulin through TCM

Chinese medicine can significantly reduce insulin requirements

07/31/2014

For type 2 diabetics, taking insulin supplements is part of everyday life. While at the beginning of the disease, the intake of tablets is often sufficient, with increasing duration of the disease, the handle to the pill is replaced by the insulin syringe. Most diabetics feel restricted and stigmatized in their daily lives. But it works without it?

According to Dr. Christian Schmincke, TCM expert and head of the Clinic at Steigerwald, offers good chances for Chinese medicine to reduce insulin requirements so much that injections are often no longer necessary. „Diabetes shows how well Chinese medicine and conventional medicine complement one another“, the doctor says. Without the pharmacologically produced insulin, these patients have died in former times. So insulin is a blessing for every insulin-dependent diabetic. With appropriate living arrangements, patients have a good prognosis for a long life. Nevertheless, they too can reduce the daily insulin requirement with the help of Chinese medicine. Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disease. The effect of the body's own insulin does not come to or to a low degree in the cells. The islet cells are producing more and more insulin to make up for this and are becoming depleted in the long run. „If the pancreatic islet cells have not yet given up their insulin production, sometimes treatment by Chinese principles can even slowly reduce insulin requirements to zero“, thinks Dr. Schmincke.

Type 2 diabetes is usually associated with overweight and high blood pressure, but can also be caused by medication. Traditional medicine tries to treat the symptoms and usually first prescribes tablets that improve the response of the cells to the body's own insulin. Without changing the causal habits of life, a weight reduction and more exercise, patients usually need to take some insulin tablets and later inject the insulin.

„Medical medications alone do not solve any problems“, makes Dr. Schmincke clearly. „They simply try to manage the disease as well as possible. However, Chinese drug therapy treats the cause of diabetes.“ Based on an individual diagnosis experts for Chinese medicine recognize the causes of diabetes. On the basis of the findings, they put together a recipe that the patient consumes daily in the form of decoctions. From the point of view of Chinese medicine, diabetes is often overwhelmed by food, feelings and information, and there is a traffic jam that above all obstructs the supply and disposal routes. The blood sugar derailment is therefore the result of a more general disorder that hits the body and soul. In diabetes, TCM physicians seek to strengthen the body's clarifying functions with tools such as Chinese medicinal herbs, acupuncture, body therapies, and Qi Gong. „This can significantly reduce the daily insulin dose, sometimes even zero, along with lifestyle changes.“ The diabetic sequelae also improve frequently under similar treatment approach.“ (Pm)