What is high blood sugar? What causes high blood sugar?

High blood sugar is a hidden danger that is very harmful to the human body. When blood sugar reaches a certain level, it is likely to cause diseases such as hyperglycemia and diabetes. However, what causes high blood sugar? Are there any Chinese herbal medicines that can lower blood sugar?

1: Occasional high blood sugar. If you eat a lot of sweets before the blood sugar test, you will certainly have a high blood sugar result. So don't worry too much if you are tested for high blood sugar. After a period of time, check the blood sugar result again.

2: Bad living habits and environment. Most young people nowadays like fast food such as KFC and dislike vegetables and fruits. Long-term eating habits may lead to high blood sugar. Negative air ions are natural factors existing in the air and can effectively reduce high blood sugar. However, environmental pollution leads to a sharp decrease in the content of negative oxygen ions in the air, and the human body does not absorb enough negative oxygen ions, which is also an important cause of high blood sugar.

3: Hyperglycemia caused by other diseases. Coronary heart disease and other diseases are closely related to hyperglycemia. Therefore, once hyperglycemia is diagnosed, we should try to understand the cause of the hyperglycemia so that we can treat the symptoms and do a good job of preventing and treating hyperglycemia. After excluding the above causes of hyperglycemia, hyperglycemia is very likely to be an early symptom of diabetes. Currently, the population with diabetes is getting younger and younger, and even children with diabetes have appeared. Therefore, what diabetic patients must know is that hyperglycemia must be treated early. Genetic and other reasons can also lead to hyperglycemia.

1: Ginseng pharmacology studies have shown that ginsenosides, the active ingredient in ginseng, can promote glycogenolysis, inhibit glycogen synthesis, reduce liver glycogen content, and increase the activity of glucokinase, accelerate glucose oxidation and decomposition, and help reduce blood sugar concentration; in addition, ginseng can stimulate insulin secretion, enhance glucose sensitivity to insulin, promote glucose utilization, and further promote blood sugar reduction. Ginseng can be used in combination with raw earth for mild diabetes; for moderate and severe diabetes, it should be used in combination with insulin, because the two have a synergistic effect of lowering blood sugar.

2: Corn silk Saponins in corn silk can play a hypoglycemic effect. Corn silk fermentation agent has a significant hypoglycemic effect on experimental animal diabetes, and has an improvement effect on diabetic hypertension and kidney disease. Clinically, 45 grams of corn silk, 30 grams of astragalus, 15 grams of white atractylodes and 1 pig pancreas are stewed.

3: Chinese medicine believes that diabetes is caused by deficiency of Yin and dryness and heat as the symptom. Lycium barbarum nourishes the Yin of the liver and kidney, so it has a certain hypoglycemic effect. Studies have found that Lycium barbarum extract has a significant and lasting hypoglycemic effect on diabetic animals, can increase serum insulin levels, repair damaged pancreatic islet cells, and improve glucose tolerance. Taking 25 grams each of Lycium barbarum, Schisandra chinensis, Polygonatum sibiricum, and Scrophularia ningpoensis every day, decoct the juice and drink it instead of tea, can also improve the symptoms of diabetes.

4: Rehmannia root Rehmannia root has the effects of nourishing yin and kidney, nourishing blood, replenishing blood, and cooling blood. Pharmacology has shown that Rehmannia root also has the effects of lowering blood sugar, anticoagulation, and improving arteriosclerosis. Experimental animals have shown that Rehmannia root can significantly reduce blood sugar, inhibit and prevent the increase in blood sugar in rabbits caused by adrenaline, and improve the hyperlipidemia and hypertension of diabetes. In clinical application for diabetes, Rehmannia root is often used in combination with Asparagus cochinchinensis, Lycium barbarum, etc.

When any indicator has a problem, the whole body will feel a certain discomfort, which requires our attention. Many people have high blood sugar, which poses a potential threat to their health and requires us to actively treat it.