糖尿病是一种常见的内分泌代谢疾病。其基本生理病理改变是由于胰岛素绝对或相对不足引起糖、脂肪、蛋白质和继发的水、电解质代谢紊乱。在中医上则称为消渴,其典型症状是多饮、多尿、多食易饥、消瘦乏力,血糖、尿糖升高。有11％的患者在早期没有明显的症状。 近年来糖尿病发病率逐年上升,据统计,我国1995年的总发病率为2.5％,比1979年的 Diabetes is a common endocrine and metabolic disease. The basic physiological and pathological changes are due to the absolute or relative lack of insulin, causing sugar, fat, protein and secondary water and electrolyte disorders. In Chinese medicine is called diabetes, the typical symptoms are drink more, more urine, easy to eat hunger, weight loss, blood sugar, urine sugar increased. Eleven percent of patients had no obvious symptoms early. In recent years, the incidence of diabetes increased year by year, according to statistics, China’s overall incidence in 1995 was 2.5%, compared with 1979