Yang Jing's Experience in Treating Diabetes Mellitus from Spleen

Professor Yang argues that the onset of diabetes mellitus is based upon spleen deficiency failing to transform and transport, and presents with blood stasis, dampness turbidity and yin deficiency; that blood stasis goes through the whole procedure of diabetes mellitus and is the one of the important factors of vascular complications. It is raised that the treatment principle consists in nourishing spleen-qi to treat the root factor, activating blood and resolving blood-stasis to prevent vascular disease, emphasizing phlegm-dampness and fluid deficiency.