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DIABETES MELLITUS (DM) 231Zhu, Bai Zhu, Ji Nei Jin, and Lian Zi all fortify the spleenand boost the qi, while Bu Gu Zhi, Shan Zhu Yu, and LianZi supplement the kidneys and invigorate yang. In addition,Lian Zi, Bu Gu Zhi, and Wu Bei Zi stop diarrhea. Further,Bai Zhu, Cang Zhu, Gou Qi, Shan Zhu Yu, Shan Yao, and WuBei Zi are all empirically known to lower blood sugar.ADDITIONS & SUBTRACTIONS: For a black facial complexionand cold limbs, add nine grams each of Gui Zhi (RamulusCinnamomi), Dan Shen (Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae), and ZiHe Che (Placenta Hominis) and three grams of Lu Jiao(Cornu Cervi), powdered and taken with the strained decoction.For dribbling urination and nocturia, add 12 grams ofBai Guo (Semen Ginkgonis). For cold lower back pain, addthree grams of Rou Gui (Cortex Cinnamomix) and 12 gramseach of Sang Ji Sheng (Herba Taxilli), Xu Duan (RadixDipsaci), and Yin Yang Huo (Herba Epimedii). For impotence,add 12 grams each of Ba Ji Tian (Radix MorindaeOfficinalis) and Yin Yang Huo (Herba Epimedii). For heartpalpitations, add 12 grams each of Suan Zao Ren (SemenZizyphi Spinosae), Fu Shen (Sclerotium Pararadicis PoriaeCocos), and Bai Zi Ren (Semen Platycladi) and six grams ofYuan Zhi (Radix Polygalae).ACUPUNCTURE & MOXIBUSTION: Guan Yuan (CV 4),Ming Men (GV 4), Fu Liu (Ki 7), San Yin Jiao (Sp 6)ANALYSIS OF FORMULA: Supplementing Guan Yuan andMing Men with moxibustion warms and supplements spleenand kidney yang. Supplementing Fu Liu and San Yin Jiaoboosts yin essence to engender yang from yin.ADDITIONS & SUBTRACTIONS: For marked fatigue, addZu San Li (St 36). For severe aversion to cold, moxa Da Zhui(GV 14) and Zu San Li (St 36). For seminal emission orimpotence, add Zhi Shi (Bl 52). For spontaneous perspiration,add He Gu (LI 4). For loose stools or fifth-watch diarrhea,add Yin Ling Quan (Sp 9) and Zu San Li (St 36).REMARKS1. Since originally writing this book, we have come to realizethat Chinese medical materials tend to start their discussionof diabetes after patients have become symptomatic.However, many Western patients and those in developedcountries are diagnosed while their diabetes is still asymptomatic.Therefore, our patients may not yet have developed thepatterns that Chinese traditionally start with in describing thetreatment of this condition based on pattern discrimination.Chinese doctors tend to assume that, if there is diabetes, thereare yin vacuity, heat, and dryness, but in our patients withasymptomatic diabetes, there may only be a liver-stomach orliver-spleen disharmony with or without heat and with orwithout phlegm dampness. Therefore, it is important to basetreatment on each patient’s personally presenting patterns,whatever these may be, and not blindly upon one or morepatterns appearing in a textbook such as this.2. Blood stasis complicates most patterns of diabetes basedon the saying, “Enduring diseases enter the network vessels.”Therefore, blood-quickening medicinals have already beenadded as standard operating procedure to a number of theabove formulas.3. Most cases of diabetes exhibit symptoms of middle andlower wasting complicated by spleen vacuity. In other words,there is enduring heat in the middle burner with stomachand kidney yin vacuity at the same time as there is spleen qivacuity. Then damp heat, liver depression, and/or blood stasisfurther complicate individual patient’s patterns. Generallyspeaking, in adults, the early stage starts with dry heat whichcauses yin vacuity and even more replete heat. This thenresults in a dual qi and yin vacuity in the middle stage whichthen evolves into a yin and yang dual vacuity in the latterstage. This progression will vary depending on the patient’sconstitution and/or lifestyle.4. Dietary therapy must be combined with acupunctureand/or Chinese medicinals for best results. This means A)totally eliminating refined sugar and sugar products, B)avoiding “junk” foods, C) eating snacks of protein betweenmeals, D) eating complex carbohydrates, such as wholegrains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables which release theirsugars more slowly and evenly into the blood stream, E)reduce or eliminate alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco consumption,and F) lose weight through calorie reduction andincreased exercise. In addition, food allergies to corn, wheat,and milk products may cause inflammatory responses whichinitiate or aggravate autoimmune reactions leading to diabetes.A famous study conducted in Canada in 1991 clearly showsthat the rate of diabetes is proportional to the quantity ofmilk consumed on average per individual. Thus, for example,in Japan where the milk consumption does not exceedthe equivalent of 50 liters per person per year, the rate of newcases of diabetes per year is two per 100,000 youngsters 0-14years old. In Denmark, with yearly milk consumption of 150liters per person per year, the rate of new cases is 15 per year.In Finland, with a yearly consumption of 250 liters of milkper person per year, the rate is 30 new cases of diabetes peryear. This study compared milk consumption to rates of newcases of diabetes in 12 Western countries, including the U.S.,U.K., and New Zealand. 55. Because acupuncture is not so efficient for treating yinvacuity and yin vacuity plays a part in most Western patients’diabetes, internally administered Chinese medicinals typical-