"What are the 14 Recipes for Managing Diabetes?"

Diabetes can cause diseases in the eyes, kidneys, nerves, and others, posing a serious threat to patients' health. While there are numerous treatment methods for diabetes, the cheapest and most effective one is dietary therapy. Below are some recipes for managing diabetes.

1. Clam and Bitter Gourd Soup

Ingredients: 250g bitter gourd, 100g clam meat.
Method: Keep live clams in clean water for two days, then clean and extract the meat. Boil the clam meat with the bitter gourd to make soup. Add oil and salt for seasoning before serving. Both bitter gourd and clam meat have been recorded in modern literature to have hypoglycemic effects. The crude extract of bitter gourd contains insulin-like substances with notable blood sugar-lowering effects. In traditional Chinese medicine, bitter gourd is considered sweet, bitter, and cooling, able to clear heat, relieve irritability, and quench thirst. Clam meat, being salty and cold, can clear heat, nourish yin, quench thirst, and promote urination. Combined, they are suitable for diabetic patients with stomach yin deficiency and heat.

2. Stir-Fried Onions

Ingredients: 250g onions.
Method: Stir-fry onions as a regular dish and consume with meals. Alternatively, boil 50-100g of onions for 1-2 minutes and consume. Onions are warming, can disperse qi and accumulations, elevate blood insulin levels, lower blood sugar, and inhibit cholesterol increases caused by high-fat diets. They are suitable for diabetics with atherosclerosis.

3. Wolfberry and Rabbit Meat Stew

Ingredients: 15g wolfberries, 250g rabbit meat.
Method: Stew the ingredients in water over low heat, then season with salt. Drink the soup and eat the meat. Wolfberries are excellent for nourishing the liver and kidneys and have been shown to lower blood sugar. Rabbit meat tonifies the middle qi, quenches thirst, strengthens the spleen, nourishes yin, and is effective in "quenching thirst" according to ancient texts. This recipe is suitable for diabetics with liver and kidney deficiency but not for those with stomach heat or dryness.

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