Due to over-eating sugars, simple carbohydrates, fats, and oils coupled with too much stress and too little exercise, millions of Westerners are afflicted with diabetes. Sufferers of diabetes not only experience the discomforts of fatigue, extreme thirst, irritability, restless leg syndrome, and heart palpitations, they are also prone to developing blindness, high blood pressure, heart disease, and non-healing ulcers and sores which can lead to amputation.
This book is an introduction to Chinese medical theories about diabetes as well as a self-help guide to preventing or controlling its symptoms. Chinese medicine offers many effective strategies for combating this potentially life threatening disease. These include both simple, low or no cost home remedies & professionally administered therapies such as acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. If you or anyone you know suffers from either hypoglycemia or diabetes, you need the information in this book.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. An overview of the Chinese Medical Map
3. The Chinese Medical view of Digestion
4. The Chinese Mechanisms of Diabetes
5. The Chinese Medical Treatment of Diabetes
6. How this System Works in Real-Life
7. Chinese Herbal Medicine & Diabetes
8. Acupuncture & Moxibustion
9. The Three Free Therapies
10. Simple Home Remedies for Diabetes
11. Kicking the Sugar Habit
12. Chinese Medical Research on Diabetes
13. More Case Histories
14. Finding a Professional Practitioner of Chinese Medicine
15. Learning More About Chinese Medicine
This book is a textbook and clinical manual on the Chinese medical treatment of diabetes and its many complications. Among its 29 chapters, in addition to diabetes, you will learn how to treat such conditions as:
Hypertension
Hyperlipidemia
Coronary heart disease
Cerebral vascular disease
Diabetic neuropathy
Diabetic nephropathy
Diabetic retinopathy
Diabetic dermatological conditi...
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