Patient's question:
Always taking medication to control blood sugar, but blood sugar is still unstable, high and low. What foods can diabetics eat to tonify the kidneys?Doctor's answer:
Diabetic patients are believed by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to suffer from a disease caused by yin deficiency and fire excess. In the early stages, this condition is often characterized by lung yin deficiency, and the treatment follows the principles of syndrome differentiation and treatment. In the end-stage, kidney yin deficiency becomes the primary syndrome type. It is also possible to take tonifying kidney herbs early on to prevent the recurrence of kidney yin deficiency. Currently, the main herbs used to treat diabetes-induced kidney yin deficiency are modified Liuwei Dihuang Wan.