{"id":52435,"date":"2026-02-19T15:59:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinabooks.com.au\/education\/product\/treating-diabetes-and-its-complications-with-chinese-medicine\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:45:50","slug":"treating-diabetes-and-its-complications-with-chinese-medicine","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/chinabooks.com.au\/education\/product\/treating-diabetes-and-its-complications-with-chinese-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please Note: This is an Audio and Reading Course.<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide, diabetes mellitus affects approximately 130 million people. By 2010, it\u2019s estimated that this number will increase to 220 million. There\u2019s a growing need for any treatments to help control of this condition. Chinese medicine has recognized and treated diabetes as a distinct disease for 2,500 years, and modern research has shown that it can work better than many Western drugs, reduce the dosages of those drugs, alleviate their side effects and achieve better clinical outcomes when used in tandem with those drugs.<\/p>\n<p>This course covers:<br \/>\n(1) Insulin resistance and syndrome X, plus diabetes and: hypertension, high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, cerebral vascular disease, neuropathy, nephropathy, retinopathy, dermatological complications, opportunistic infections, acromelic gangrene<br \/>\n(2) Why the Chinese medical literature on diabetes does not mirror real-life clinical practice<br \/>\n(3) The unsung roles of the liver and spleen in the disease mechanisms of diabetes<br \/>\n(4) How to use Western disease staging to help in pattern discrimination<br \/>\n(5) Why blood stasis is almost always involved in diabetic complications<br \/>\n(6) A specific diabetes materia medica and formulary<br \/>\n(7) How and when to get the most out of acupuncture when treating diabetes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn Chinese medical approaches to diabetes, including patterns, complications, key formulas, and acupuncture strategies to enhance treatment outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":53528,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1906,1907,1894],"product_tag":[1707,2393,857,1152,1095,2392],"class_list":["net-of-knowledge-course-product","post-52435","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-classical-chinese-medicine-courses","product_cat-diagnosis-courses","product_cat-herbs-courses","product_tag-chinese-medicine","product_tag-coronary-heart-disease","product_tag-diabetes","product_tag-hypertension","product_tag-neuropathy","product_tag-vascular-disease","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinabooks.com.au\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/52435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinabooks.com.au\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinabooks.com.au\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinabooks.com.au\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinabooks.com.au\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinabooks.com.au\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=52435"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinabooks.com.au\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=52435"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinabooks.com.au\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=52435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}