At present over 170 million people are living with diabetes, one of the most common metabolic disorders in humans,across the globe. The rate of new cases of diabetes soared by about 90 percent in the United States in the past decade, fueled by growing obesity and sedentary lifestyles.It was found there is no end in sight to the diabetes epidemic.Newly diagnosed cases of diabetes rose to 9.1 per 1,000 people annually between 2005 to 2007, up from 4.8 per 1,000 from 1995 to 1997. Among patients with diabetes, as much as 90% are living with diabetes type 2 while the remaining manage diabetes type 1 daily with insulin dosage. Recent research into the management of diabetes has found convincing evidence that diabetes type 2 can indeed be prevented and even delayed in high risk individuals through better diet, exercise and lifestyle choiced. With a strong medical case for the prevention and control of diabetes, improving care for persons with diabetes as well as for those at high risk has increasingly become an important concern for decision- makers and health-care planners.
It was found that while doctors are using a wider array of newer, more costly drugs to treat diabetes, there is little long-term proof they work better than older,cheaper medications.At this point,ILILT might be of precautionary and therapeutic effects on diabetes.
Shen P et al. (2007) randomly divided 100 patients of type 2 diabetes mellitus into two groups,50 in the control group treated with oral administration of diaformin and 50 in the observation group treated with oral administration of diaformin combined with acupuncture along du meridian at the acupoints, baihui (GV 20) (Fig.8) and fengfu (GV 16) (Fig.11),and found the mood disorder improved and fasting blood glucose, blood glucose 2 h after meal, glycosylated hemoglobin levels decreased in the two groups,with the observation group being better than the control group. This study support ILILT, the acupuncture of LIL of ILILT and the skin-contact electric acupuncture of low frequency pulse on baihui and fengfu might improve the symptoms in type 2 diabetes patients at least through intranasal du meridian according to MIH.
Many groups have investigated the neural effect of acupuncture stimulation along stomach meridian of foot yang-ming at the zusanli acupoint (ST 36) (Fig.6) in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Neuropeptide Y ,a 36-amino-acid peptide, is known to increase appetite, Kim et al.(2002) found ac
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