Diabetes mellitus refers to a metabolic disorder syndrome, caused by insufficient insulin secreted by the pancreas, which affects high blood sugar (glucose) as the major symptom. Normally, the pancreas secretes insulin to use or store the sugar and fat from your food.
Have your children ever experienced diarrhea? How to stop diarrhea in Children? How do you cope with this emerging situation at home? We will provide you with some practical remedies and tips for preventing diarrhea in children.
Do you experience extreme tiredness without any reason and unknown fatigue with non-specific symptoms like sore throat, new type of headache or joint pain without swelling or redness? But the report of your physical examination shows that all values are normal and it is difficult to diagnose the explicit disease.
Have you ever had sudden pain and stiffness in the joint of the foot or ankle, sometimes in the shoulder and wrist? Although you did not do excessive exercise the day before? You may google the symptoms, but there is no exact illness you can define because they correspond to various ill-nesses. Maybe this article can help you to solve the confusion.
Do you have extreme abdominal pain but you make sure you eat clean food during menstruation? After menstruation, you have no symptoms, but at the next menstrual cycle, they come back. This means you have menstrual cramps.
Migraine, a type of headaches, is a throbbing pain usually on just one side of the head. Before onset, most patients usually experience flashing lights, blurred vision, limb numbness and other auras. A few minutes up to an hour later, the headache affects one side of the head with symptoms of increasingly throbbing pain, nausea and vomiting.
Constipation is prevalent in various groups such as infants, old people, pregnant women and office workers who are sitting for a long time. And the symptoms of them are similar, but the causes differ from age, habit and other factors. Therefore, the treatment principles are determined by their actual situation.
Ulcerative colitis (UC) in children refers to nonspecific chronic inflammation of the inner lining of the colon (large intestine). The inflammation, caused by unknown factors, always begins in the left colon and gradually extends to the entire colon or even to the end of the ileum.
Menopause, also known as climacteric syndrome, is defined as the absence of menstrual periods for twelve consecutive months, giving rise to a series of physical and psychological changes.
Winter is the season with extreme cold and an abundance of Yang with a weakened Yin. Due to the cold temperature physiological functions in the human body as well as the appetite can be influenced. Therefore, it is necessary to adjust the diet adequately to maintain essential nutrients of the body. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the use of tonic in winter, when compared to medicines, has irreplaceable effects on improving nutritional status, immunological functions and illness recovery.
For most people, sleeping is the best part of a whole day, but people who are prone to insomnia have a different attitude. Actually, insomnia can be treated without medication. Try the following four tips before sleeping:
‘Healthy food supplements in winter’, a Chinese folk wisdom, refers to strengthening one's health with nourishing food in winter. People often follow a vegetarian diet instead of meat, such as beef, or fish, because vegetables can supply certain nutriments we need to nourish the body and prevent sickness in the cold winter.
Recent research indicates that a cup of coffee and a bowl of cereal with two spoons of cheese effectively stabilises blood sugar levels and reduces the risk of developing diabetes. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that more than 200 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes, related to eating habits, obesity, lack of exercise and other factors.
On average, women over the age of 51 experience some menopausal symptoms like bad mood, tiredness, difficulty falling asleep, and irregular fever and sweat. In addition to Western medical treatment, the following tonic diets cooked with Chinese medicinal herbs are suitable for premenopausal and postmenopausal women.
Ulcerative colitis (UC), a type of chronic colitis disease, attacks the inner lining of the large intestine in the form of ulcers for an unknown reason. The main symptoms of this are abdominal pain and diarrhea accompanied by bloody stools, 2 to 4 times a day, in severe cases even up to 10 times. UC patients often suffer from malnutrition, thinness, and anaemia. Therefore, in addition to general therapy, they should rationally adjust nutrition to high-calorie, protein-rich, high-vitamin, low-fat, and low-fibre foods. The following section presents relevant tips for your information.
Angina is a type of clinical syndrome with the main symptom of chest pain or discomfort caused by poor blood supply to the coronary arteries. The treatment of angina involves not only medication from western medicine and TCM but also foods or dietary supplements. There are some nutritional rules that angina patients should follow.
For most women, dysmenorrhea (menstrual cramps) seems to be normal and bearable. Actually, this phenomenon is abnormal because it may mean that you have a potential illness that can severely damage your health. Therefore, it is necessary to accept timely treatment if you are attacked by dysmenorrhea. And you should pay attention to diet and lifestyle. The next part recommends some fruits to eat during menstruation.
Constipation, as a common illness, affects people’s health and normal life. From the records of traditional Chinese medicine, it can be seen that constipation can be divided into two types depending on the symptoms: ‘Shi Constipation’ and ‘Xu Constipation’. Based on the personal situation, the principle of treating constipation should take into account the cause or nature of the condition.
