Acupuncture treatment of diabetes
(1) acupuncture can reduce blood sugar, improve clinical symptoms.Currently, diabetes, fasting blood glucose target of <6.0mmol / L.It was found that needle puncture can make clinical parameters are varying degrees of improvement, blood glucose decreased, or basically back to normal, the average decline in amplitude up to 5.6mmol / L, urine and more with the drop in blood sugar to negative.Significantly improved glucose tolerance, clinical symptoms were relieved, the vanishing, the effective rate was 81.5% ~ 87.5%, the average was about 34% efficiency, with no obvious side effects.Further study found acupuncture to improve blood sugar effect on DM2 type of insulin-resistant effect of the most ideal type of the DM1, and severe weight loss were, poorer treatment outcomes.And efficacy of a treatment-dependent, with the smell of prolonged treatment, efficacy gradually increased, and glucose in the combined Chinese and western medicine, there is a certain synergy, can significantly reduce drug consumption, and some disable the hypoglycemic agents, and blood glucose long-term stability.
(B) acupuncture can be adjusted with glucose metabolism and related substances.Normal glucose regulation, mainly dependent on insulin, when blood sugar rises, the vagus nerve and insulin β-cell is stimulated, causing β cell surface IK ion channels open, a large number of K + influx, which initiates intracellular signal transduction, activation of insulin gene to promote insulin secretion, so that part of the glucose into glycogen, blood glucose decreased Er Shi.When the blood glucose lower than when excited by sympathetic activation of hypothalamic pituitary — — — adrenal thyroid, pancreatic islet axis (HPA axis), adrenal medulla secretion of adrenaline, adrenal cortex to secrete glucocorticoid hormone, thyroid hormone secretion, insulin secretion of glucagon and so they promote the decomposition of glycogen to increase blood glucose.Through this feedback loop, to achieve relatively constant blood sugar.Some people with low-frequency electro-acupuncture meridians percutaneous treatment of certain diabetic patients, found in the needle immediately after the insulin treatment increased by 3 to 5 times, the effect sustained for up to three hours or more, while growth hormone decreased, blood glucose decreased.Some acupuncture DM (II)-type patients, found that after needle thyroid T3, T4 decreased, cAMP decreased the cGMP rise.Acupuncture effect can be seen, is not limited within the pancreas.There are strong external pancreatic function.
(C) of islet morphology and cellular and molecular levels.Diabetic patients have varying degrees of islet tissue pathological changes, such as hyaline change, fibrosis and edema, a small number of islet cells to reduce the total number of purposes.And insulin resistance in patients with more performance for the post-receptor defects, such as tissue and islet cell surface of insulin and glucagon receptor numbers decline, or with the corresponding ligand binding capacity of the decline.Research has shown that acupuncture on the alloxan diabetic animals (such as mouse, rat, rabbit, etc.) to protect β cells significantly role in maintaining cell integrity.Have shown that acupuncture can increase the receptor and ligand binding capacity and to decrease the number of receptors increases, thus improving insulin sensitivity, to treat certain types of diabetes.
There is also found that the impact of acupuncture on the central nervous system, such as central nervous system function by improving the body’s regulation of blood sugar to make this feedback pathway is more perfect and the other sensitive, so the body can have a healthy blood glucose self-regulation mechanism .Promote the rehabilitation of patients with diabetes.
