天气热要降血压，天气冷也要降血压，天气天天都在变，天天都在降血压、控制血压，血压的数据，天天都在药物控制之下所测得，药物停止使用却变本加厉心脏因降血压药物的伤害致衰弱，可以做为获得健康数据的标准吗？大家可以体会一下长期服用降血压药物所造成心脏与胸部的压迫及不适感，心脏的无力，更增加血液循环的障碍，气血循环受阻更甚，而造成心脏病中风半身不遂、瘫痪、偏枯、肾脏病变的百病丛生：因肾脏的衰弱，更造成脑血管的病变详见补肾壮阳篇，脑瘤、脑癌篇。
天气太热，某人中风了，天气太冷，某人中风了，只是某人的身体虚弱，不能适应天气的变化所造成，并不是高血压所造成，因量到血压不够的人，照样中风了。
我们从前面所述可以了解到中风、半身不遂、瘫痪或昏迷仆倒详见肝病篇的疾病，并非脑的问题，就像发烧并非脑的中枢神经所造成；详见发烧篇今日以脑做文章，才能掏空病患的口袋，我们要待何时才能让高血压的病患重见天日呢？中华民国推销防高血压协会是在预防疾病，还是在推销疾病呢？
我们从前面所述可知，半身不遂、瘫痪、昏仆不省人事，不是高血压的问题，更不是脑栓塞、脑溢血、脑蜘蛛网膜破裂的问题，而是五脏六腑经络无力运作五气所造成，故根本不是脑的疾病，只是说脑的问题就比较值钱罢了。
昏仆不省的病患，经第三天、第六天、第九天、或第十二天即会自动醒过来，或在第三天、第六天、第九天、第十二天死亡，是以会死的病人，医生根本就救不起来。
我们常见到半身不遂的许多病患，过一段时日，手脚会自动的恢复活动，乃身体、心脏经络常有自己排除循环障碍修复身体的功能，就像刀伤伤口自己会痊愈一样。
我们常可听到，脑手术成功，保住了生命，许多病患躺在床上十几年没有死，没手术不也是保住了生命吗？
照道理，医疗的成功应该是健康的完全恢复，即手脚活动恢复正常，说话恢复正常，而不是病患没有死在手术台上，就是医疗的成功。
脑手术成功，保住了生命？但手脚还是不会动，嘴巴还是不会讲话，手术医疗的意义何在呢？成功在那里呢？手术动机何在呢？大家心知肚明－病患的口袋。
脑手术后消炎，对心、肾造成更严重的伤害，心、肾更无力排除循环障碍，故对脑手术后的病患，要恢复手脚的活动、言语的正常，更是雪上加霜，但大众却不知道真正的症结所在－更见不到一个脑手术成功、健康恢复的病患乃因手术后消炎伤心、肾，致体力、元气无法恢复所致。
（六）结论：
血压是外来的刺激，引起身体对空气的交换，由心脏产生的舒张、收缩压，没有空气，心脏就不会跳动而没有血压，没有心脏的跳动就没有生命的活力，故血压为气在身体的活动力。
气血的循环发生障碍，身体就会产生排除障碍的本能反应而将血压升高，故高血压是身体排除循环障碍所产生加高压力，以保护身体生命的生理活动。
故发现高血压应找出造成高血压的原因，消除其原因，则血压自平，或应更增高其血压－如运动，以助身体排除循环障碍，排除循环障碍的原因而不是降血压、控制血压。降血压，控制血压反造成心脏、血管的伤害。
许多血压忽然升高到两百多水银柱，而被降血压造成死亡者，即因该病患心脏衰弱又感冒，医生误量血压而降血压伤心脏，致感冒的风邪急速的被引入心脏，致心脏受风寒的压迫跳动不起来而死亡。
科学家发明了血压计，量到了血管的舒张压、收缩压，发现气血循环障碍，但此循环障碍的发生是因气候的风、暑、寒、湿、燥火还是饮食的酸、苦、甘、辛、咸、臊、焦、香、腥、腐，还是情绪的喜、怒、忧、思、悲、恐、惊之七情所造成呢？血压计无法分辨原因，无法分辨经络、脏腑但今日的医疗却以心脏、血管的舒张压、收缩压来欺骗病患而医疗，造成全身各种的并发症、副作用，更创造了十大死亡排行榜的前茅，是谁造成的呢？
血压计的发明，没有为人类的健康带来福音，反为健康带来了极大的伤害，故血压计应是残害健康的凶器，而不是医疗仪器，要预防高血压，唯有让大家认识高血压的真正面目，丢弃血压计，否则祸患无穷，健康遭殃。
我们可以了解高血压不是病，它只是发明了血压计，发现了我们身体的某些生理现象而被推销出来，只能作为诊断疾病的参考，它不是病就不能控制它，更不能治疗它，它不是病所以一个病人也治不好，但今日医学却把它当成一种疾病来控制它，治疗它，结果呢？药物的伤害，心理的伤害造成了多少人健康的、生命的损失呢？我们是否应该让危害人类健康的凶器－血压计再继续存在呢？
认识中医的经络病变、藏象学说：可以很清楚，很容易的辨别循环障碍的产生，而为疾病的痊愈做诊断治疗以达恢复健康的目的。
二、糖尿病----一个病人都治不好的医疗骗局之（二）
（一）前言
我们看得见、听得到糖尿病昏迷，发生危险的病患，都是因为用胰岛素将血糖降得太低，致心脏因缺乏糖份的供应而造成昏迷，造成生命危险的境地，昏迷的病患，只要喝口糖水，或塞口糖到病患嘴里，心脏得到糖的供应，即可脱离昏迷、危险。
从来没有听到、看到过因血糖、尿糖被检查到数据太高而发生昏迷、危险的，病患的危险、致死的原因，皆因打胰岛素造成缺糖而昏迷时，没有及时供应糖份后发生，如蒋孝武先生便是。
我们看得到、听得到造成视觉障碍、脚拇指或皮肤溃烂、下体疮痒的糖尿病病患，都是被检查为糖尿病病患而被使用胰岛素治疗数年或数十年以上的病患，此类病患几乎都具有被胰岛素治疗数年或数十年以上的糖尿病病史。
从没有看到、听到过没有检查过糖尿病的人，会忽然有视觉障碍、昏迷、皮肤溃烂、下体痒痒的病患而为糖尿病者，更没有看到过吃糖、吃饭会发生昏迷，危险的病患。
今日的医疗，糖尿病的推销预防广告，都是有意、无意对大众暗示恐吓、威胁，糖尿病会造成尿毒症、视网膜障碍，身上坏疽此糖尿病所生之坏证，实际都是因检查而被用胰岛素治疗数年或十数年所生之恶果－胰岛素中毒。
从前面数据悟得之后，被西医检查为糖尿病来求诊的病患，笔者必先要病患喝碗糖水，更需要每天都必喝一大碗糖水，并把饭吃饱，结果：能照笔者吩咐吃饱、喝碗糖水的病患，从没发生过问题，且都体强力壮，健康正常，恢复昔日的欢笑，而不必再苦恼为糖尿病所困。
有的病患不敢喝，或拒绝喝糖水的病患，笔者即拒绝为其治疗，观念不改过来，是一个病患也无法治疗痊愈的医学理论，何以会造成今日的惨况呢？本文将为大家提供了解真相。
李先生七十二岁中坜人，在一年前民国七十二年听人说而去做健康检查，医生告诉他糖尿病有一点！以后，即力行医生的指示，一年后请笔者至其住处诊断，其太太称，已半年不能起床，两个月不会翻身，笔者要李太太弄碗糖水给他喝，李太太说：医生交代，糖尿病不能吃糖。笔者说：煮碗猪肉稀饭给病患吃。李太太说：医生交代，肉类胆固醇太高，所以不能吃肉，饭也只能吃一两口。笔者问：平时吃什么？答：都是吃青菜、冬粉。
遇到这种白痴，笔者听后，摇头叹息，不得已，只得破口大骂：半年不能起床，两个月不能翻身，这不能吃，那不能吃，要死也要让他吃饱来死，不要让他饿死，当饿死鬼。一语惊醒梦中人，李太太煮了猪肉稀饭，病患吃了之后说：很好吃，笔者说：很好吃，表示身体需要。病患吃糖、吃饭后，经笔者治疗三个星期后，已能到公园散步。
李先生一念之差，听人说而去做健康检查，致卧病半年的下场，今日不知道有多少病患与李先生相似？不知道有多少人要被饿坏、饿死的呢？
刘先生四十八岁，士林人，业出租车司机，被检查为糖尿病，而注射胰岛素，为了健康，并力行医师吩咐，只吃半碗饭，甚至不吃饭，三个月后，卧病在床，不能工作，笔者诊断，是不敢吃饭、不敢吃糖，被饿得手软、脚软，令家人以冷饭配黑糖，一次吃两碗，两天后即起床，一星期后即能出门开车做生意了。
△塑总经理室高级专员余先生，健康检查胆固醇太高，而力行医师交代，吃素、吃冬粉、青菜，三个月后送医急诊两次后，找笔者诊断，笔者把脉后说：回家去买猪脚炖花生吃，余先生说：为什么？笔者笑说：回去试试看便知道。两星期后余先生回来复诊，病已痊愈，笔者笑笑说：以后还要不要健康检查呢？
常遇到照笔者方法治疗而痊愈的病患，告诉笔者说：与他们过去一同住院的病患，告诉他们，你还在吃饭、吃糖、吃肉，不怕眼睛看不见？不怕得尿毒症？你敢相信那没有科学依据的中医说的？笔者只能笑笑说：看看到时候，谁的眼睛会看不见，看看谁会得尿毒症，谁会得坏疽？事实胜于雄辩，别逞口舌之能，不用多谈！
常听说：西医的糖尿病，就是中医的消渴三消症，事实上，中医的消渴三消症，根本就不是西医的糖尿病西医的糖尿病只是发明了血糖、尿糖的检查，而在糖上做文章，玩糖的数字游戏，结果没法向病患交代，而穿凿附会拿中医的消渴三消症，来自圆其说，掩其医学的不是，做为欺骗病患的掩耳盗铃之学说。
中医学的消渴症根本就与糖、胰岛素无关，西医的糖尿病以糖与胰岛素的作用而为医学的标的。
糖尿病是多吃、多喝、多尿的三多证状，试问今日被检查到糖尿病的一百个病患中，有几个会有多吃、多喝、多尿的证状呢？事实上，今日被检查到糖尿病有一点！的病患，有三多证状者，不到百分之一呢？
从来不曾听到糖尿病的医学报导，为什么会多喝？为什么会多吃？为什么会多尿呢？
让我们从中医的医学来揭穿这幕糖尿病的医疗骗局吧！
医宗金鉴：消渴篇。
三消皆属燥，热病也，然观年老好饮茶者，夜必多溺，则非三消皆燥热也，亦有寒者矣！
今日许多医学报导劝人多喝开水，亦为造成老人多饮、多尿之病源－详见需要多喝开水吗？篇饮水多，小便少而浑赤者属热，是火盛耗水而浑也。
饮水少，小便多而清白者属寒，是火虚不能耗水也。
内经：灵枢五变第四十六篇：
黄帝问于少俞曰：善病消瘅能吃能喝而瘦为瘅者，何以候之？少俞答曰：五脏皆柔弱者，善病消瘅，黄帝曰：何以知五脏之柔弱也？少俞答曰：夫柔弱者，必有刚强，刚则多怒，柔者易伤也。黄帝曰：何以候诊断柔弱之与刚强？少俞答曰：此人皮肤薄而目坚固以深者，长冲直扬其心刚，刚则多怒，怒则气上逆，胸中蓄积，血气逆留，臗皮充肌，血脉不行，转而为热，热则消肌肤，故为消瘅－是为情志不调之病素问生气通天论：大怒则形气绝而血死于上，气为之留，皮肤肌肉为之充塞，而血脉不能通，所以蒸而为热，热则消肌肤而消瘅之病成矣！
高士宗曰：
按平脉篇云：肾气微，少精血，奔气上入胸膈，盖精血少，则气逆往上奔，故曰柔弱者必有刚强，谓五脏之精质柔弱而气反刚强，是柔者愈弱，而刚者愈刚强，刚柔之不和也。
朱永年曰：
有五脏之消瘅，有肌肉之消瘅。五脏之消瘅，津液内消而消渴也。肌肉之消瘅也，肌肉外消而消瘦也，盖因内者必及于外，因于外者必及于内也，形体为五脏外内之相合也。
消渴的原因在于燥、热之气，影响虚弱的身体所造成，而此燥热之气有三：
1。天气：如夏天，天气热，令人口渴，晒太阳，令人口渴，中暑、中暍令人口渴。
2。食物：煎、炒、炸、辛辣……等燥性食物令人口渴，如花生用煮，不使人口渴，用炒、炸很香，但容易使人口渴，如猪肉用煮、用蒸不使人口渴，用炸则使人口渴，食物因料理之不同，易产生对身体不同的影响令人口渴。
3。情绪：诸气愤郁，气血不顺，蓄积逆流，血脉不行，转而为热令人口渴。
身体虚，热火、燥在上焦上消耗水，则多饮，在中焦中消耗食则多吃，在下焦下消因肾虚则多尿。
身体为何会虚呢？热火燥是如何进入体内的呢？
4。感冒：感冒分为风暑寒湿燥火，却被消炎伤心肾，致心肾虚，风寒内侵，又吃燥性食物如油炸食物，炒花生、饼干、辣椒……等，致食物之燥与风寒相结合致口干、口渴。
5。房事过度：房事伤肾、风寒乘虚进入心肾，致口渴又吃冰凉食物而口淡，再食燥性食物致肾阴受伤。
三消为体虚，风寒与燥气食物结合在上焦为上消，在中焦为中消，在下焦因行房事或消炎伤肾致肾虚而成下消。
消渴虽有上、中、下消之分，肺燥、胃热、肾虚之别实际上三消证状，往往同时存在，仅表现程度上有轻重的不同。或有明显的多饮，而其它二者不甚显著，或以多食为主，而其它二者为次，或以多尿为重，而其它二者较轻，故上中下三消之治疗，当辨证以论治。
When the weather is hot, blood pressure needs to be lowered; when the weather is cold, blood pressure also needs to be lowered. The weather changes every day, so blood pressure must be lowered and controlled every day. Blood pressure data are measured under drug control. However, if medication is stopped, the condition worsens. Can such data serve as a standard for achieving health? Everyone can reflect on the compression and discomfort in the heart and chest caused by long-term use of antihypertensive drugs, the resulting cardiac weakness, and the further exacerbation of blood circulation obstacles. This leads to even more severe obstruction of Qi and blood circulation, causing various diseases such as heart disease, stroke (Zhong Feng), hemiplegia (Ban Shen Bu Sui), paralysis (Tan Huan), hemi-atrophy (Pian Ku), and renal lesions: due to renal weakness, cerebrovascular lesions (see *Bu Shen Zhuang Yang* chapter), brain tumors, and brain cancer arise.
When the weather is too hot, someone suffers a stroke; when the weather is too cold, someone else suffers a stroke. This is merely because certain individuals have weak constitutions and cannot adapt to weather changes, not because of high blood pressure. Even those with normal blood pressure readings still suffer strokes.
From the preceding discussion, we can understand that diseases such as stroke, hemiplegia, paralysis, or sudden collapse and coma (see *Gan Bing* chapter) are not problems of the brain, just as fever is not caused by the central nervous system of the brain (see *Fa Re* chapter). Today, focusing articles on brain issues is merely a way to empty patients' pockets. When will we allow hypertensive patients to see the light of day again? Is the Republic of China Hypertension Prevention Promotion Association preventing disease or promoting disease?
(V) Brain surgery adds frost to snow regarding the recovery of stroke patients' health
As stated previously, hemiplegia, paralysis, and unconscious collapse are not issues of high blood pressure, nor are they issues of cerebral embolism, cerebral hemorrhage, or rupture of the cerebral arachnoid membrane. Rather, they are caused by the inability of the Zang-Fu organs and meridians to operate the "Five Qi." Therefore, this is fundamentally not a disease of the brain; it is simply that labeling it as a brain issue makes it more "profitable."
Patients who fall into unconsciousness may automatically regain consciousness on the third, sixth, ninth, or twelfth day, or they may die on these days. Thus, patients destined to die cannot be saved by doctors.
We often see many hemiplegic patients whose limbs automatically recover movement after a period of time. This is because the body and the heart's meridians possess the innate function to self-resolve circulation obstacles and repair the body, similar to how knife wounds heal naturally.
We often hear that brain surgery was successful in saving lives, with many patients lying in bed for over ten years without dying. However, did not surviving without surgery also mean saving their lives?
Logically, the success of medical treatment should be the complete restoration of health, meaning the normalization of limb movement and speech, rather than the patient simply not dying on the operating table being considered a success.
Brain surgery was successful, and life was saved? But the limbs still cannot move, and the mouth still cannot speak. What is the medical significance of the surgery? Where is the success? What is the motive behind the surgery? Everyone knows clearly—it is for the patients' pockets.
Post-operative anti-inflammatory treatments cause more severe damage to the heart and kidneys, making them even less capable of resolving circulation obstacles. Therefore, for post-brain-surgery patients, recovering limb movement and normal speech is adding frost to snow. However, the public does not know the true crux of the matter—nor do we see any patient who has successfully undergone brain surgery and fully recovered health. This is because post-operative anti-inflammatories damage the heart and kidneys, preventing the recovery of physical strength and Yuan Qi (Primordial Qi).
(VI) Conclusion:
Blood pressure is an external stimulus triggering the body's exchange with air, manifested as diastolic and systolic pressure generated by the heart. Without air, the heart would not beat, and there would be no blood pressure. Without the beating of the heart, there is no vitality of life. Therefore, blood pressure represents the dynamic activity of Qi within the body.
When obstacles occur in Qi and blood circulation, the body generates an instinctive reaction to eliminate these obstacles by raising blood pressure. Thus, hypertension is a physiological mechanism where the body increases pressure to protect vital functions while eliminating circulation obstacles.
Therefore, upon discovering hypertension, one should identify and eliminate the causes. If the causes are removed, blood pressure will normalize naturally. Alternatively, one might need to increase blood pressure further—for example, through exercise—to assist the body in eliminating circulation obstacles. The goal is to remove the causes of circulation obstacles, not to lower or control blood pressure. Lowering and controlling blood pressure instead causes damage to the heart and blood vessels.
Many people died from taking antihypertensive drugs after their blood pressure suddenly rose to over 200 mmHg. This occurred because the patient had a weak heart and caught a cold. The doctor mistakenly measured the blood pressure and forcibly lowered it, damaging the heart. This allowed the wind pathogen from the cold to rapidly invade the heart, causing the heart to be compressed by wind-cold and unable to beat, leading to death.
Scientists invented the sphygmomanometer, measuring vascular diastolic and systolic pressures, thereby detecting Qi and blood circulation obstacles. However, whether these obstacles are caused by climatic factors (wind, summer-heat, cold, dampness, dryness, fire), dietary factors (sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, salty, fishy, scorched, fragrant, raw, putrid), or emotional factors (joy, anger, worry,思 [thought], sorrow, fear, fright—the Seven Emotions) cannot be distinguished by a sphygmomanometer. Nor can it distinguish between meridian and Zang-Fu issues. Yet, modern medicine deceives patients by treating based solely on cardiac and vascular pressures, causing various complications and side effects, and ranking highly in the top ten causes of death. Who is responsible for this?
The invention of the sphygmomanometer has not brought good news to human health but has caused great harm. Therefore, the sphygmomanometer is an instrument of health destruction, not a medical device. To prevent hypertension, everyone must recognize its true nature and discard the sphygmomanometer; otherwise, the disaster will be endless, and health will suffer.
We can understand that hypertension is not a disease. It is merely a physiological phenomenon discovered by the invention of the sphygmomanometer and subsequently marketed. It can only serve as a reference for diagnosing diseases. Since it is not a disease, it cannot be controlled or treated. Because it is not a disease, no patient can be cured by treating it as such. Yet, modern medicine treats it as a disease to be controlled and treated. What is the result? The harm caused by drugs and psychological trauma has resulted in countless losses of health and life. Should we continue to allow this instrument of harm to exist?
Understanding Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) meridian pathology and Zang-Fang theory allows for clear and easy identification of the origins of circulation obstacles, enabling accurate diagnosis and treatment for recovery.
II. Diabetes Mellitus—A Medical Scam That Cannot Cure Any Patient (Part 2)
(I) Preface
The diabetic patients we see or hear about falling into comas or facing danger are those whose blood sugar was lowered too much by insulin, causing the heart to lack glucose supply, leading to coma and life-threatening conditions. For comatose patients, drinking sugar water or placing sugar in their mouths provides the heart with glucose, allowing them to escape coma and danger.
We have never heard or seen cases where patients fell into coma or danger due to excessively high blood sugar or urine sugar test results. The danger and death of patients always occur because insulin injection causes hypoglycemic coma, and glucose is not supplied in time. Mr. Chiang Hsiao-wu is an example.
The diabetic patients we see or hear about suffering from visual impairment, toe or skin ulcers, or genital itching are those diagnosed with diabetes and treated with insulin for years or decades. Almost all such patients have a history of insulin treatment for years or decades.
We have never seen or heard of anyone undiagnosed with diabetes suddenly developing visual impairment, coma, skin ulcers, or genital itching and being diagnosed with diabetes. Nor have we seen patients who fall into coma or danger after eating sugar or rice.
Today's medical advertisements for diabetes prevention consciously or unconsciously intimidate the public, claiming diabetes causes uremia, retinal disorders, and gangrene. In reality, these are adverse outcomes—insulin poisoning—resulting from years or decades of insulin treatment following diagnosis.
After understanding the data above, when patients diagnosed with Western medicine diabetes seek my treatment, I first require them to drink a bowl of sugar water and insist they drink a large bowl daily and eat enough rice. The result: patients who follow these instructions and eat/drink adequately never experience problems. They become strong, healthy, and return to their former joy, free from the distress of diabetes.
For patients who dare not drink or refuse sugar water, I refuse to treat them. Without changing their concepts, no amount of medical theory can cure a single patient. How did today's tragic situation arise? This article will reveal the truth.
Mr. Li, 72 years old, from Zhongli, underwent a health checkup a year ago (Republic of China Year 72) based on hearsay. The doctor told him, "You have a little bit of diabetes!" Thereafter, he strictly followed the doctor's advice. A year later, he invited me to his home for diagnosis. His wife said he had been unable to get out of bed for half a year and unable to turn over for two months. I asked Mrs. Li to prepare sugar water for him. She said, "The doctor instructed that diabetics cannot eat sugar." I said, "Cook some pork congee for the patient." She replied, "The doctor instructed that meat cholesterol is too high, so no meat, and only one or two bites of rice." I asked, "What does he usually eat?" She answered, "Only vegetables and vermicelli."
Hearing this foolishness, I shook my head in sighs and could not help but curse: "Half a year unable to get out of bed, two months unable to turn over, yet you won't let him eat this or that. If he is going to die, let him die full, not starve to death as a hungry ghost." These words woke Mrs. Li up. She cooked pork congee. After eating, the patient said, "It tastes very good." I said, "If it tastes good, it means your body needs it." After three weeks of treatment involving sugar and rice intake, the patient could walk in the park.
Mr. Li made a momentary mistake by getting a health checkup based on hearsay, resulting in six months of bedridden illness. How many patients today are like Mr. Li? How many will be starved to death?
Mr. Liu, 48 years old, from Shilin, a taxi driver, was diagnosed with diabetes and injected with insulin. For health reasons, and strictly following the doctor's orders, he ate only half a bowl of rice, or sometimes none. Three months later, he was bedridden and unable to work. My diagnosis was that he dared not eat rice or sugar, starving himself until his hands and feet were weak. His family fed him cold rice with brown sugar, two bowls at a time. He got up after two days and returned to driving and working after one week.
Mr. Yu, Senior Specialist at the General Manager's Office of △Su Corporation, had high cholesterol during a health checkup. Following the doctor's orders, he ate vegetarian food, vermicelli, and vegetables. After three months, he was sent to the emergency room twice. He then sought my diagnosis. After taking his pulse, I said, "Go home and buy pig trotters stewed with peanuts to eat." Mr. Yu asked, "Why?" I smiled and said, "Go back and try it, and you will know." Two weeks later, Mr. Yu returned for a follow-up, and his illness was cured. I smiled and asked, "Do you still want health checkups in the future?"
Patients cured using my methods often tell me that other patients hospitalized with them say, "You are still eating rice, sugar, and meat. Aren't you afraid of going blind? Aren't you afraid of uremia? Do you dare believe TCM, which lacks scientific basis?" I can only smile and say, "Let's see who goes blind, who gets uremia, and who gets gangrene. Facts speak louder than words. Do not rely on verbal arguments; no need to discuss further!"
(II) TCM Xiao Ke Syndrome is Fundamentally Not Western Medicine's Diabetes
It is often said that Western medicine's diabetes corresponds to TCM's Xiao Ke (Wasting-Thirst) San Xiao (Three Excesses) syndrome. In fact, TCM's Xiao Ke San Xiao is fundamentally not Western medicine's diabetes. Western medicine's diabetes is merely built upon the invention of blood sugar and urine sugar tests, playing number games with sugar. Unable to explain the condition to patients, they arbitrarily associate it with TCM's Xiao Ke San Xiao to justify themselves, covering up medical flaws with a self-deceptive doctrine.
TCM's Xiao Ke syndrome has nothing to do with sugar or insulin. Western medicine's diabetes focuses on the role of sugar and insulin as its medical target.
Diabetes is characterized by the "Three Excesses": excessive eating, excessive drinking, and excessive urination. Ask yourself: among 100 patients diagnosed with diabetes today, how many exhibit these three symptoms? In fact, among patients diagnosed with "a little bit of diabetes," fewer than 1% have the Three Excesses symptoms.
Medical reports on diabetes never explain why patients drink excessively, eat excessively, or urinate excessively.
Let us expose this medical scam of diabetes through TCM!
The causes of San Xiao differ according to Lung Dryness, Stomach Heat, and Kidney Deficiency.
*Yi Zong Jin Jian*: Chapter on Xiao Ke.
Shang Xiao (Upper Excess): Belongs to the Lung. Excessive drinking with normal urination.
Zhong Xiao (Middle Excess): Belongs to the Stomach. Excessive drinking with scanty, dark red urine, and excessive eating.
Xia Xiao (Lower Excess): Belongs to the Kidney. Excessive drinking with turbid, voluminous urine.
All three excesses belong to Dryness and Heat diseases. However, observing elderly people who love drinking tea and urinate frequently at night shows that not all San Xiao are Dryness-Heat; some are Cold.
Today, many medical reports advise drinking plenty of boiled water, which is also a source of excessive drinking and urination in the elderly (see *Need to Drink Plenty of Boiled Water?* chapter). Drinking much with scanty, turbid, red urine indicates Heat (excessive Fire consuming Water).
Drinking little with abundant, clear urine indicates Cold (deficient Fire failing to consume Water).
*Neijing · Ling Shu · Chapter 46: Five Transformations*:
Yellow Emperor asked Shaoyu: "Those prone to Xiao Dan (Wasting-Thirst), who can eat and drink but become emaciated, how should they be diagnosed?" Shaoyu answered: "Weakness of all five Zang organs predisposes one to Xiao Dan." Yellow Emperor asked: "How do we know the five Zang are weak?" Shaoyu answered: "Weakness implies rigidity; rigidity leads to frequent anger, while weakness is easily injured." Yellow Emperor asked: "How to diagnose weakness versus rigidity?" Shaoyu answered: "Such persons have thin skin and deep, firm eyes. Their hearts are rigid, leading to frequent anger. Anger causes Qi to reverse upward, accumulating in the chest. Qi and blood stagnate, flesh swells, and blood vessels fail to flow, transforming into Heat. Heat consumes muscle and skin, thus causing Xiao Dan—this is a disease of emotional imbalance."
*Sù Wèn · Sheng Qi Tong Tian Lun*: "Great anger severs form and Qi, causing blood to stagnate above. Qi remains stagnant, flesh and skin swell, and blood vessels cannot flow. Steaming produces Heat, which consumes muscle and skin, forming Xiao Dan."
Gao Shizong commented:
According to the *Ping Mai Pian*, "Kidney Qi is faint, essence and blood are scarce, rushing Qi enters the chest and diaphragm." Since essence and blood are scarce, Qi reverses upward. Thus, "weakness implies rigidity" means the essence/quality of the five Zang is weak, but Qi is rigid. The weak becomes weaker, and the rigid becomes stronger, indicating disharmony between rigidity and softness.
Zhu Yongnian commented:
There is Xiao Dan of the five Zang and Xiao Dan of the muscles. Xiao Dan of the five Zang involves internal consumption of fluids leading to thirst. Xiao Dan of the muscles involves external consumption leading to emaciation. Internal issues affect the external, and external issues affect the internal. The body is the union of the five Zang internally and externally.
The cause of Xiao Ke lies in Dryness and Heat affecting a weak body. This Dryness-Heat comes from three sources:
1. Weather: Summer heat causes thirst; sun exposure causes thirst; heatstroke causes thirst.
2. Food: Fried, roasted, spicy foods cause thirst. Boiled peanuts do not cause thirst, but fried ones do. Boiled/steamed pork does not cause thirst, but fried pork does. Different cooking methods affect the body differently, causing thirst.
3. Emotions: Suppressed anger causes Qi and blood stagnation and reversal, transforming into Heat, causing thirst.
When the body is weak, Dryness-Heat consumes Water in the Upper Jiao (leading to excessive drinking), consumes Food in the Middle Jiao (leading to excessive eating), and consumes due to Kidney Deficiency in the Lower Jiao (leading to excessive urination).
Why is the body weak? How do Dryness-Heat enter the body?
4. Common Cold: Colds are categorized as Wind, Summer-heat, Cold, Dampness, Dryness, Fire. Anti-inflammatory drugs damage the Heart and Kidneys, causing deficiency. Wind-Cold invades internally. Eating dry foods (fried foods, roasted peanuts, biscuits, chili peppers) combines food Dryness with Wind-Cold, causing dry mouth and thirst.
5. Sexual Excess: Sexual activity damages the Kidneys. Wind-Cold enters the Heart and Kidneys due to deficiency. Thirst occurs, and eating cold foods leads to bland taste. Eating dry foods further damages Kidney Yin.
San Xiao results from body weakness: Wind-Cold and dry foods combine in the Upper Jiao (Shang Xiao), Middle Jiao (Zhong Xiao), or Lower Jiao due to sexual excess or anti-inflammatory kidney damage (Xia Xiao).
Although Xiao Ke is divided into Shang, Zhong, and Xia, and differs by Lung Dryness, Stomach Heat, and Kidney Deficiency, the symptoms often coexist, differing only in severity. One symptom may be prominent while others are mild. Therefore, treatment of Shang, Zhong, and Xia Xiao must be based on pattern differentiation (Bian Zheng).