Diabetes is a common disease, and if you have diabetes, you must pay attention to controlling your blood sugar in daily life. Dietary adjustments can effectively lower blood sugar levels. So, what foods can help lower blood sugar? Below, let me introduce three types of medicinal diets that can effectively lower blood sugar.
Traditional Chinese Medicinal Diet for Lowering Blood Sugar
1. Stir-Fried Asparagus with Lily Bulbs
Ingredients: 500g asparagus, 150g fresh lily bulbs.
Instructions:
1. Wash the asparagus and cut it into segments, then blanch it.
2. Wash the lily bulbs and set aside.
3. Heat the wok, add oil, and stir-fry the fresh lily bulbs and asparagus over high heat.
4. Add salt, chicken powder, sugar, and some water, and stir-fry until cooked.
Benefits:
1. Lily bulbs can improve the body's immune system and have a good preventive and therapeutic effect on various cancers.
2. Asparagus is a cooling food, so it can effectively control high blood pressure.
3. Stir-fried asparagus with lily bulbs has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, tonifying the middle burner and benefiting the Qi and stomach, and lowering blood sugar. It is very nutritious.
2. Corn and Mung Bean Porridge
Ingredients:
1. 30g mung beans, 30g corn, 30g glutinous rice.
Instructions:
1. Wash the mung beans, corn, and glutinous rice separately.
2. Soak the glutinous rice for 1 hour, and soak the corn for 6 hours.
3. Soak the mung beans overnight and steam them in a steamer, then set aside.
4. Heat a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and bring the corn to a boil over high heat.
5. Add the glutinous rice and mung beans, reduce the heat, and simmer for 30 minutes.
Benefits:
1. Corn has the effects of invigorating the spleen and stomach, anti-aging, relieving constipation, beautifying the skin, preventing atherosclerosis, and lowering blood sugar.
2. Mung beans have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, relieving summer heat and thirst, diuresis and reducing swelling, promoting bowel movements, lowering blood sugar, and protecting the liver.
3. Glutinous rice has the effects of tonifying the middle burner, invigorating the spleen and stomach, and stopping night sweats. It has a certain relieving effect on poor appetite, abdominal distension, and diarrhea.
4. Corn and mung bean porridge has the effects of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, invigorating the spleen and stomach, reducing fat, lowering blood sugar, promoting bowel movements, anti-allergy, anti-inflammatory, and strengthening the body.
For those with high blood sugar, please pay attention to your daily diet and control your blood sugar. Try the two traditional Chinese medicinal diets recommended above!
