Diabetes patients are mostly elderly people, with main symptoms of excessive thirst, polyphagia with weight loss, frequent urination or turbid urine. The main treatment for diabetes is to control blood sugar, and the combination of medication and diet therapy has better results. In terms of diet therapy for diabetes, it can be complemented with medicated diet to treat the condition. Below, I will introduce several common medicated diets for diabetes, which can help "sugar friends" relieve their pain.
Medicated Diet 1: Double Ear Soup for Lowering Consumption
Ingredients: 10g white fungus, 20g black fungus, 100g lean pork slices, 10 wolfberries, tender ginger, and scallion as needed.
Method: First, boil the pork slices in water, then add black fungus when the soup boils, and finally add white fungus, wolfberries, salt, scallions, and ginger as needed.
Effect: Diabetes patients often feel thirsty and have kidney deficiency. Black fungus in this medicated diet has a kidney-tonifying effect and is also helpful for hypertension patients.
Medicated Diet 2: Astragalus Stewed Mud Carp
Ingredients: 30g black-skinned astragalus, 20 red dates, 1 mud carp, 50g fresh shiitake mushrooms, 1 carrot, ginger, and scallion as needed.
Method: Boil the astragalus and red dates in water, then add shiitake mushrooms and carrot to the pot. After the soup boils again, add the mud carp and finally add ginger, scallions, and salt as needed.
Effect: Diabetes patients often have difficulty healing wounds. Astragalus in this medicated diet can help wounds heal and discharge pus.
Medicated Diet 3: Solomon's Seal and Black Plum Tea
Ingredients: 15g Solomon's Seal, 15g North American ginseng, 15g stone calamus, 15g Ophiopogon japonicus, and 5 black plums.
Method: Put 3-4 cups of water in a kettle, then boil all the ingredients in the kettle.
Effect: Diabetes patients often feel thirsty. Solomon's Seal and Black Plum Tea can quench thirst. Solomon's Seal has a tonifying effect and North American ginseng can nourish yin and moisten dryness.
Medicated Diet 4: Ginseng and Anemarrhena Tea
Ingredients: Half a bundle of ginseng root hairs, 30g Anemarrhena.
Method: First, boil 4-6 cups of water, then add ginseng root hairs and Anemarrhena.
Effect: Ginseng and Anemarrhena Tea can both tonify qi and clear heat, and also relieve cough and moisten dryness. It is very suitable for diabetes patients with dry mouth and tongue.
In addition to stabilizing blood sugar with medication, diet therapy is also important for diabetes patients, especially elderly diabetes patients who need to pay more attention to their diet. The above four medicated diets have good effects in relieving the discomfort symptoms of diabetes and it is worth a try for "sugar friends"!
