Pattern of deficient Kidney Yin and deficient Kidney Yang

Chinese medicine regards diabetes as excessive Lung and Stomach Fire and Kidney Yin deficiency, a result of improper diet and emotional distress.

With exhaustion of the lower body, excessive urination (polyuria) is the major sign due to exhaustion of the Kidney Yang and Yin. Here diabetes is advanced, with loss of weight, extreme weakness and tiredness and perhaps complications including impotency, hypoglycemic or hyperglycemic coma, diabetic retinopathy and cataracts, lower extremeties gangrene, diabetic nephropathy and neuropathy, heart and brain problems, etc.