Chinese medicine warns these two types of people not to eat bitter melon

Midweek electronic bulletin November 3, 2018

National diabetes has more than 200, ten thousand people, so have one in every 10 people with diabetes, is a quite common disease, network spread to eat bitter gourd can fall blood sugar, but doctors warn, not all diabetic patients are suitable for eat balsam pear, only the early diabetes or fueling diabetes, have some effect.

According to the Chinese health website, Chinese medicine believes that all balsam pear plants are cold, and their main role is to clear heat and detoxify. The effect of balsam pear on blood sugar is only effective for early diabetes or obese diabetes.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, diabetes is a kind of "quench thirst disease", which can be divided into syndrome types such as shangxiao, zhongxiao and xiaoxiao, and initial diabetes is a kind of "shangxiao". The treatment is mainly based on raw and diarrhea fire, and eating bitter gourd to reduce blood sugar or can be improved. However, if you eat more, you will be hungry, thin, bitter mouth, bad breath, constipation, or urination and turbidity, sour knees and so on, the bitter melon will only eat more empty, if kidney failure has occurred, the bitter melon high potassium ion may even be fatal.

Traditional Chinese medicine also believes that if diabetes has reached the stage of complications, western medicine should still be the main treatment. In addition to taking medicine to control blood sugar, it is also necessary to change behavior, eat a balanced diet and exercise more to achieve the best treatment effect.