Patient's question:
Onset of illness: Early October of this yearSymptoms: Excessive thirst and frequent urination
Treatment: Insulin injection
Doctor's answer:
Fruits beneficial for diabetes:1. Apple: Cool in nature, sweet in taste, with some varieties slightly sour. It has the effects of tonifying the heart and qi, generating fluids and stopping coughs, strengthening the stomach and spleen, relieving irritability, dispelling summer heat, and sobering up.
2. Pear: Cold in nature, sweet and slightly sour, belonging to cool fruits. It has the effects of generating fluids, moistening the lungs, clearing heat, cooling the heart, resolving phlegm, lowering fire, stopping heat coughs, and detoxifying.
3. Peach: Peaches are warm in nature, sweet and sour. Due to their rich glucose and fructose, they are sweet and juicy, with the effects of generating fluids, moistening the intestines, invigorating blood circulation, resolving stagnation, nourishing qi and blood, improving skin tone, and nourishing yin and stopping sweating.
4. Orange: The flesh is cool in nature, sour in taste. It has the effects of generating fluids and clearing heat, resolving phlegm and lowering qi, harmonizing the stomach and stimulating appetite, and sobering up and quenching thirst.
5. Pomelo: Cold in nature, sweet and sour. It has the effects of lowering qi and resolving phlegm, strengthening the stomach and aiding digestion, relieving edema and pain, and soothing the throat and reducing inflammation.
6. Lychee: Warm in nature, sweet and sour. It has the effects of tonifying qi and strengthening the spleen, nourishing blood and benefiting the liver, stopping thirst, improving intelligence, connecting the spirit, detoxifying, and stopping diarrhea.
7. Cherry: Warm in nature, sweet in taste. It has the effects of boosting qi and replenishing deficiency, regulating stomach and spleen function, inducing sweating, dispelling wind and resolving rashes, detoxifying, and nourishing the skin and enhancing beauty.
8. Waxberry: Warm in nature, sweet and sour. It has the effects of generating fluids and quenching thirst, and harmonizing the stomach and aiding digestion. It is primarily used to resolve phlegm, stop vomiting, resolve stagnation, treat dysentery, cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, and gastrointestinal dysfunction, as well as diabetes.