Wang Yaoting: born in February 1940; Chief Physician, Professor; former vice president of Changchun College of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM); former deputy director of the Jilin provincial health department, former director of Administration of TCM; Honorary President of Traditional Chinese Medicine Association of Jilin Province; a famous veteran doctor of TCM in China.
Dr. Nie Wentao, the author of the English book -Conquer Diabetes Mellitus .
Conquer Diabetes Mellitus is Published in the United States by
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2011945904
ISBN 978-1-4675-1079-0
After the book has been published in the Unite States, Wang Yaoting read the manuscripts of Chinese version of the book, named -Effective Recovery from Diabetes Mellitus- , and wrote preface for the book as following:

The preface for the book -Effective Recovery from Diabetes Mellitus , written by Wang Yaoting

In 1996, Nie Wentao noticed that there were a large number of records about grains relieving Xiaoke (Diabetes) in ancient literature of the traditional Chinese medicine. For examples, Dr. Sun Simiao recorded several grains that had the function of relieving diabetes in the book “Valuable Food Treatment”; Chen Shi-Duo, a famous doctor in Qing Dynasty documented clearly in the book “Bian Zheng Bing Jian”-categorical identification and clear discrimination: the special thirst in diabetics can be relieved by foods composed of grains, and hanger can make the thirst worse”. These experiences are of great difference with the then popular practice of strict restrictions on grains intake for diabetics. I was then in charge of the work of Chinese traditional medicine in Jilin Province, and felt that it was an important subject related to the life and health of millions of people, worthy of further study.
The Chinese nation has a long history of eating foods composed of grains. Lack of grain intake will lead to the insufficient usage of the ability of processing carbohydrates by the body, which can at last result in the disorder of carbohydrate metabolism. Historical facts tell us that in the age when the human’s diet was mainly composed of grains, the incidence of diabetes was very low. And the hazards of strictly limiting carbohydrates have attracted attention of Western Scholars. In 1997, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) put forward the principle of high-carbohydrate diet. Nie Wentao has studied the subject for more than a decade and in 2008, he found that when diabetics take regularly food composed of grains, their blood sugar levels rises slightly at beginning and then goes down gradually. Humans acquire their ability to deal with carbohydrates through practice of processing carbohydrates, can not escaped the law of “use to strengthening” and “disuse to atrophy” in the biological world.
During his long time clinical practice, Nie Wentao noticed that a lot of treatment methods recorded in the ancient Chinese medicine literatures were very effective. For example, Dr. Zhang Zhongjing utilized the Baihujiashen decoction to treat the Xiaoke after a fever caused by cold. “With heat in stomach, Xiaoke would lead easily to hunger”. Inspired by Dr. Zhang’s observation, Nie Wentao took the dandelion to clear heat and in consequence, the high blood sugar of some patients after having caught cold was recovered. For a variety of elevated blood sugar resulting from secondary causes, by lifting the causes and treating at the root pathogenesis, we can often achieve satisfactory results. From my own clinical experience, I believe it is right to follow the above treatment idea.
Nie Wentao attaches great importance to the diabetics’ body sign of high consumption, and firmly believes in the Xiaoke theory of Chinese medicine for diabetes. At the end of 2004, he told me that there was experimental data showing that the secretion levels of glucagon in patients with type 2 diabetes were generally higher than in normal people. In 2007, he proposed further that the onset of type 2 diabetes was caused by the excessive glucagon secretion, stimulating the secretion of insulin; there is difference between high consumption and low synthesis. Among the students I have encountered, doing so serious like Nie Wentao is very rare.
Every nation has its own national tradition. For one nation, its survival habits are the result of its long-term adaptation to natural conditions. Promote the Chinese traditional culture, is to respect the survival experience of the Chinese nation. The records documented in Chinese history during several thousand years, must be given adequate attention. Copying foreign experience and ignoring the nation’s survival habits will lead to the occurrence and aggravation of lifestyle diseases. These issues should be addressed with sufficient attention. This is not only a question of promoting the Chinese culture, but also an important matter on the people’s life and health.
Now, Nie Wentao wrote his own experience into his work in English. Considering the cultural habits of the Chinese readers, he immediately started to revise and prepare to publish a Chinese version. Academic contention is often a prelude to the technological progress. The book’s publication will promote the development of the Xiaoke theory of Chinese medicine on diabetes and enrich the means for diabetes prevention and treatment.