Know more about “medicine” | There are many “blood sugar lowering remedies” flying around, are they trustworthy?

Mr. Li suffers from diabetes. Recently, he was influenced by his old friend next door and became fascinated by "folk remedies". He also hopes to find a way to cure his diabetes with folk remedies. Are these "blood sugar-lowering folk remedies" reliable?

Common "blood sugar lowering remedies" can be roughly divided into two categories: one is the "homemade remedies" obtained by decocting or brewing several kinds of Chinese medicinal materials or ingredients; the other is various unidentified "health products" claiming to be "pure Chinese medicine". For the first type of "homemade remedies", there is no guarantee of blood sugar lowering effect without clinical verification. Believing in such remedies will not only fail to effectively lower blood sugar, but may also increase energy intake and have the opposite effect. For the second type of unidentified "health products", chemical drugs may be illegally added to achieve blood sugar lowering effects. Such "remedies" are extremely harmful, and cases of hypoglycemia reactions, liver and kidney damage, etc. due to illegal additions are not uncommon. If normal medication is stopped due to the use of remedies, blood sugar control is poor, and the consequences are even more disastrous.

There is no shortcut to treating diabetes. The right way is to go to a regular hospital, use standardized treatment medication, eat a scientific diet and exercise moderately.