Practical TCM and Western Medicine Treatment for Diabetes

Author: Heng Xianpei
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: The author combines long-term experience in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine research and treatment of diabetes, compiling the latest research and treatment outcomes from both Chinese and Western perspectives. In 17 chapters, the book comprehensively and systematically elaborates on the basic knowledge of diabetes, including its pathogenesis, major hazards, diagnostic criteria and standards, differential diagnosis, clinical classification, monitoring, prevention, treatment, and efficacy evaluation. It also dedicates a special chapter to introducing exercise therapy, dietary therapy, monotherapy and combination therapy with oral hypoglycemic drugs, monotherapy with insulin and its combination with oral hypoglycemic drugs, the classification, hypoglycemic mechanisms, prescriptions, and usage of commonly used hypoglycemic Chinese herbal medicines and traditional Chinese medicine preparations. Additionally, it covers the treatment of acute complications, neurological complications, large vessel complications, and common comorbidities of diabetes, as well as patient education and psychological issues. The book is rich in content, highly practical, and serves as a strong guide, making it suitable for diabetologists, researchers, physicians in related departments, medical professionals, and patients for reference. The author combines long-term experience in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine research and treatment of diabetes, compiling the latest research and treatment outcomes from both Chinese and Western perspectives. In 17 chapters, the book comprehensively and systematically elaborates on the basic knowledge of diabetes, including its pathogenesis, major hazards, diagnostic criteria and standards, differential diagnosis, clinical classification, monitoring, prevention, treatment, and efficacy evaluation. It also dedicates a special chapter to introducing exercise therapy, dietary therapy, monotherapy and combination therapy with oral hypoglycemic drugs, monotherapy with insulin and its combination with oral hypoglycemic drugs, the classification, hypoglycemic mechanisms, prescriptions, and usage of commonly used hypoglycemic Chinese herbal medicines and traditional Chinese medicine preparations. Additionally, it covers the treatment of acute complications, neurological complications, large vessel complications, and common comorbidities of diabetes, as well as patient education and psychological issues. The book is rich in content, highly practical, and serves as a strong guide, making it suitable for diabetologists, researchers, physicians in related departments, medical professionals, and patients for reference.