據判斷，在美國大致有1.3-1.4千萬人患有糖尿病，其中，90%-95%患的是Ⅱ型糖尿病。以前被叫做adult-onset，糖尿病通常在成年人進入40歲以後開始逐漸形成，常發病於55歲左右。由於該疾病需要長時間才出現明顯症狀，起初階段很難辨認，所以幾乎近一般的患者都沒有意識到自己患有糖尿病。患者常常會感到莫名其妙的疲勞或生病。糖尿病可以引發一系列難題，損害心臟，血管，眼睛，腎臟和神經系統。
儘管目前在醫學上還沒有治愈該疾病的方法，但是，日常採取的治療也有助於控制血糖，可以減少疾病進一步惡化的風險。在醫師的監督下，日常治療包括減輕體重，鍛煉和藥物治療。
有兩種糖尿病類型，即胰島素依賴型和胰島素非依賴型，這兩種分別是由個體內兩種不同的紊亂造成的。然而，這些致病因，短時間內的影響和針對不同類型，採取的不同治療手段不當，這些都會同樣導致個體健康受到長時間困擾。兩種糖尿病都會影響到用來使機體獲取能量的食物消化能力。該疾病不僅會干擾正常的消化過程，還會阻止機體將吸收得來的葡萄糖（通常被叫做醣類）作為能量來源。
每次飯後，消化系統都會將一些食物分解為葡萄糖。血液將葡萄糖或者醣類輸送到機體各處，導致血糖含量上升。作為血糖含量上升的回應，胰島素荷爾蒙被釋放到血液中，通過促使機體組織進行新陳代謝或燃燒葡萄糖的手段，來使血糖含量回歸到正常水平。位於胃部後面的胰腺可以產生胰島素。其他沒有來得及被使用的葡萄糖將會以脂肪的形式保存在肝臟和肌肉組織中。
對於糖尿病患者，以上描述的整個過程在體內都不能被正確的進行。對於那些依賴於胰島素的患者來說，他們的胰腺不會產生胰島素。這些情形通常起始於孩童時期，被認為是Ⅰ型糖尿病（以前被叫做juvenile-onset）。患有這種類型糖尿病的患者必須依賴胰島素的注射才得以生存。
對於那些非胰島素依賴的患者來說，個體內的胰腺常常還可以產生少量的胰島素，但是機體組織不能對胰島素發出的信號產生良好的回應，因此不能對葡萄糖進行代謝反應，這一系列過程被叫做胰島素抗性。胰島素抗性是引發非胰島素依賴型糖尿病的一個重要原因。
糖尿病的症狀是經過日積月累才顯現的，所以在起初很難被識別。症狀包括容易疲勞、類似於生病的感覺、排尿頻率的增加（特別是在夜間）以及過度的口渴。當血液中的葡萄糖存在過多時，機體會通過增加排尿次數的方式來進行調節。液體的喪失會導致個體產生口渴。當然個體也可能出現其他的狀況，如突然的體重降低，視野不清、目昏（blurred vision），皮膚傷口癒合速度的降低，牙床和尿道的感染。
採取醫學的糖尿病治療手段可以緩解症狀，如口渴，身體虛弱，身體長期困擾的機率以及眼部和心臟的疾病。如果飲食和鍛煉的治療方式不起作用，醫師會開出一些口服的藥物或胰島素。目前對於糖尿病還沒有有效的治療手段；日常的治療手段一定要堅持貫徹於患者的一生。（摘錄自美國國家健康協會出版社No.92-241）
愛德加凱西的觀點
凱西曾提供那些患有Ⅱ型糖尿病（非依賴胰島素類型）個體許多解讀報告。雖然針對每個個體進行的病理學描述都是獨特的，但是在這一類解讀中，某些明確的致病機理和治療手段也呈現出其模式來。
在凱西的信息資料中，最常被引用來作為致病因之一的就是脊椎的受傷。由於位於胸部的脊椎神經中心受到壓迫，因此使得那些影響消化器官（特指胰腺和肝臟）的神經受到牽連。通常問題出現在第5-10節的胸椎位置。因此對脊椎進行校正，對於糖尿病的治療來說，是一個主要的治療手段。
以下是凱西描述的脊椎受傷對患者產生影響的一個案例：
問：我患有的是糖尿病嗎，還是其他什麼？
答：您患的正是糖尿病。正如顯示出來的，來源於背部以前的外傷的應急反應，導致了壓迫的產生。損傷帶來的影響在胸椎的側面，而不是整個環面；因此，存在有無法讓胰腺有工作反應。但是，仍然會產生症狀；像肝臟活動異常，有時排尿的過多和缺乏，腎臟和膀胱活動的異常，血壓及其他類似的循環系統的紊亂——所有這些都表明，發生在胰腺和肝臟區域的紊亂，籍由交感神經系統影響到其他部分的正常活動。
因此，應該按照已經給出的方法，堅持不懈的實施這些操作。
問：以前有和我類似情況的患者被治愈過嗎？
答：有很多很多！按照已經被描述的那樣去做，我們會發現我們將獲得一個更好的身體狀況。隨著耶路撒冷朝鮮薊（洋薑Jerusalem Artichoke）的使用，患者會經歷更少的疼痛，更少的不安，更少的頭昏眼花，所以不要放棄使用它們——持續使用幾個月，每周至少3次，明白嗎？（解讀2393-1）
需要注意的是除了要採取脊椎矯正的方法，耶路撒冷朝鮮薊也被建議當做日常的食物進行補充。飲食（特別是包含耶路撒冷朝鮮薊）是在治療糖尿病過程中的另一個主要的治療手段。由於將飲食作為治療糖尿病的手段——這一觀點在解讀中被廣泛認同，所以後面的治療方案就有這一條。目前，耶路撒冷朝鮮薊還沒有被廣泛地當做治療糖尿病的一種手段。飲食療法提供了許多將耶路撒冷朝鮮薊作為日常飲食補充食物的信息和指導。
儘管有關脊椎的調整，飲食和耶路撒冷朝鮮薊在治療糖尿病過程中是優先使用的，但是適當鍛煉也是被解讀經常推薦的。在以下的摘錄中，除了適當地進行整體性鍛煉（步行）和有針對性的治療性練習之外，飲食是被著重強調的：
問：他患有糖尿病嗎？
答：有這個趨勢
問：他該做些什麼才能不讓自己患上糖尿病？
答：正如指出的那樣，飲食和那些有助於調節和創造平衡的，有針對性的練習。
除了少量的魚肉和家禽，不要吃其他肉類。不要食用任何豆類。那些生長在地面下的最好，也要加許多多葉類蔬菜而且枝繁葉茂。
每週2次食用耶路撒冷朝鮮薊，大概雞蛋大小；第一次生吃——例如在周二食用，下一次煮熟了再吃，可以在周四食用，但是要在其自身的汁液中煮（用Patapar紙一樣）。每次吃一個，明白嗎？當煮熟後，對它進行調味，使它變得可口，但不要吃表皮。食用它的時候，將其碎屑和汁液全部吃下。無論是生的還是煮過的，都要和正餐一起食用。不要在兩餐期間食用，而是就將它和日常的飲食放在一起。
食用各種各樣的蔬菜，尤其是那些多葉類的；例如菠菜，甘藍類蔬菜，芥菜及類似的。這些蔬菜都應該在其自身的汁液中被烹製——或者在Patapar紙裡。
戒除那些向其中加入牛奶或奶油的茶或咖啡；但可以適度的飲用那些什麼都不放入其中的。
禁止攝入大量的黃油或黃油類脂肪。禁止食用麵粉類和蛋糕；但那些無糖的食物可以食用。甜菜糖的使用要好於甘蔗糖；更好於糖精。不要再注射胰島素。如果機體對胰島素的需求量高於從耶路撒冷朝鮮薊中獲得的，那麼就增加每週的食用量，明白嗎？
建議的練習；定期地步行，每日早晚各5-10分鐘的練習。不要進行的太劇烈，也不要一次運動量過大。輕輕地舉起雙臂至頭部以上。然後，雙臂的放平，下蹲——不要讓雙臂向前或向下延伸，而是保持平衡，明白嗎？然後將手掌放在臀部，輕輕地移動以促進身體腰椎以上部分的血液循環。（解讀1963-2）
在有的解讀中，凱西推薦將結腸水療法作為在糖尿病治療中的一種輔助療法。採取這樣的手段可以保持腸道下部的清潔，因而改善整個消化道的機能。在某些案例中，如解讀4023-1，凱西將存在於腸道中的問題歸結為導致糖尿病形成的關鍵因素：
腸道內部的紊亂或機體控製糖類代謝能力的缺失，這些都會增加個體患糖尿病的機率。（解讀4023-1）
最後，凱西健康資料庫始終堅持：在康復過程中，保養維護心理和精神的各個方面是很重要的。因此，對於個體面對的態度，理想和行為十分重要。下列準則從整體來講給出了一些基本建議：
以下是解讀推薦的一些主要療法：
脊椎矯正，解決那些存在於影響胰腺及其他相關器官神經的傳導問題；
鹼性膳食，對於維持機體平衡的建議，特別強調那些天然食物，例如新鮮的水果和蔬菜；
耶路撒冷朝鮮薊(洋薑)的日常補充，增加機體所需胰島素的天然供應；
適度的鍛煉，建議採取步行和一些有針對性的治療；
腸道水療法，改善機體的排除功能，激活消化道系統；
想像的練習，建立一個基於精神的原則的康復態度；
OVERVIEW OF NONINSULIN-DEPENDENT (TYPE II) DIABETES
Of the estimated 13 to 14 million people in the United States with diabetes, between 90 and 95 percent have noninsulin-dependent or type II diabetes. Formerly called adult-onset, this form of diabetes usually begins in adults over age 40, and is most common after age 55. Nearly half of people with diabetes don't know it because the symptoms often develop gradually and are hard to identify at first. The person may feel tired or ill without knowing why. Diabetes can cause problems that damage the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys, and nerves.
Although there is no medical cure for diabetes yet, daily treatment helps control blood sugar, and may reduce the risk of complications. Under a doctor's supervision, treatment usually involves a combination of weight loss, exercise and medication.
The two types of diabetes, insulin-dependent and noninsulin-dependent, are different disorders. While the causes, short-term effects, and treatments for the two types differ, both can cause the same long-term health problems. Both types also affect the body's ability to use digested food for energy. Diabetes doesn't interfere with digestion, but it does prevent the body from using an important product of digestion, glucose (commonly known as sugar), for energy.
After a meal the digestive system breaks some food down into glucose. The blood carries the glucose or sugar throughout the body, causing blood glucose levels to rise. In response to this rise the hormone insulin is released into the bloodstream to signal the body tissues to metabolize or burn the glucose for fuel, causing blood glucose levels to return to normal. A gland called the pancreas, found just behind the stomach, makes insulin. Glucose the body doesn't use right away goes to the liver, muscle or fat for storage.
In someone with diabetes, this process doesn't work correctly. In people with insulin-dependent diabetes, the pancreas doesn't produce insulin. This condition usually begins in childhood and is also known as type I (formerly called juvenile-onset) diabetes. People with this kind of diabetes must have daily insulin injections to survive.
In people with noninsulin-dependent diabetes the pancreas usually continues to produce some insulin, but the body's tissue don't respond very well to the insulin signal and, therefore, don't metabolize the glucose properly, a condition called insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is an important factor in noninsulin-dependent diabetes.
The symptoms of diabetes may begin gradually and can be hard to identify at first. They may include fatigue, a sick feeling, frequent urination, especially at night, and excessive thirst. When there is extra glucose in blood, one way the body gets rid of it is through frequent urination. This loss of fluids causes extreme thirst. Other symptoms may include sudden weight loss, blurred vision, and slow healing of skin, gum and urinary tract infections.
Medical treatment for diabetes treatment can reduce symptoms, like thirst and weakness, and the chances of long-term problems, like heart and eye disease. If treatment with diet and exercise isn't effective, a doctor may prescribe oral medications or insulin. There is no known cure for diabetes; daily treatment must continue throughout a person's lifetime. (Excerpted from National Institutes of Health Publication No. 92-241.)
EDGAR CAYCE'S PERSPECTIVE
Edgar Cayce provided many psychic readings for individuals who meet the criteria for Type II (noninsulin-dependent) diabetes. Although the pathological process was unique for each individual, some definite patterns of causation and treatment are present in this body of information.
One of the most frequently cited causes of diabetes in the Cayce information is spinal injury. The nerve supply to the digestive organs (particularly pancreas and liver) is compromised by pressure on nerve centers in the thoracic area of the spine. Most often the problem is in the 5th - 10th thoracic vertebrae. Thus spinal adjustment (osteopathic or chiropractic) is a primary therapy for the treatment of diabetes.
Here us an example from a Cayce reading describing the effects of spinal injury:
(Q) Is the condition diabetes, or what?
(A) Diabetic in its nature. As indicated, the pressure is from the injury some time back that causes the overactivity. This lesion is LATERAL in nature, rather than circular; thus there is not the DIRECT pancrean reaction. But, as indicated, there are the symptoms; that is, the liver activity, the excess at times and then again the scantiness of the urine or the activities of the kidneys and the bladder, and the disturbance with the circulation as to the blood pressure and the like, - all show the disturbance through the pancrean and liver area; affecting the other conditions sympathetically.
Hence we would make those applications consistently, in the manners indicated.
(Q) Has anyone been cured that was in my condition?
(A) Many, many, many!
Do these things as outlined, and we will find we will bring the better condition for this body.
Because there is less pain, less uneasiness and less dizziness WITH the use of the artichoke, don't leave them off - for several months; at least three times each week, see? (2393-1)
Note that in addition to spinal adjustments, the Jerusalem artichoke is recommended as a dietary supplement. Diet (and particularly the Jerusalem artichoke) is another primary therapy in the treatment of diabetes. Since diet is a widely accepted treatment for diabetes, its inclusion in this protocol is not surprising. Jerusalem artichoke is not so widely regarded as a therapy for diabetes. The Therapy section of this protocol provides considerable information on the role of Jerusalem artichoke as well instructions for its use as a dietary supplement.
Although spinal manipulations, diet and Jerusalem artichoke were a high priority in the treatment of diabetes, moderate exercise was also frequently recommended. In the excerpt which follows, diet is emphasized in addition to moderate general exercise (walking) and specific therapeutic exercise:
(Q) Is the body diabetic?
(A) A tendency.
(Q) What can he do to protect himself against it?
(A) As indicated, the diet - and exercise of specific characters that tend to tone up and to create a balance.
Keep away from meats, save a little fish or fowl. None of vegetables that are of the pod variety. Those of the natures that grow UNDER the ground are preferable, but plenty also of the leafy variety.
And twice each week take the Jerusalem artichoke, about the size of a hen egg; first raw - say on Tuesdays - and the next time cooked, say on Thursdays, but cooked in its own juices (as in Patapar Paper). Only eat one each time, you see. When cooked, season it to make it palatable, but do not eat the skin - save the juices and mash with the pulp when it is to be eaten. Eat it with the meal, of course; whether it is taken raw or cooked. Do not take it between meals, but at the regular meal.
Eat all of the vegetables especially of the leafy variety; such as spinach, kale or mustards and the like. These, too, should be prepared in their own juices - or in Patapar Paper.
Refrain from tea or coffee, especially if milk or cream is used in same; but these may be taken moderately without such.
Refrain from any great quantity of butter or butter fats. None of pastries, or pies; though foods that are of the diabetic sugar-proof nature may be at times taken. Or, the use of beet sugar is preferable to cane; or still more preferable is saccharine as shortening. DO NOT take injections of insulin. If more insulin is necessary than is obtained from eating the amount of artichoke indicated, then increase the number of days during the week of taking the artichoke, see?
Then the exercise; walking regularly, and a five to ten minute period of exercise morning and evening. This should not be strenuous, nor too great an exertion at one time, but: Raise the arms gently above the head. Then, with the arms lowered to level, stoop - letting the arms not be extended in front or toward the floor but keeping a balance, see? Then placing hands on hips, gently move as to circulate the body upon the lumbar axis. (1963-2)
In several readings, Edgar Cayce recommended colon hydrotherapy as an adjunct therapy in the treatment of diabetes. The idea is to keep the lower intestines cleansed and thereby improve the functioning of the whole alimentary canal. In certain cases, problems in the colon were cited as causative factors in diabetes as noted in reading 4023-1:
Also from these disturbances in the colon there are diabetic tendencies, or there is the inability of the body to control the activities of sugars taken into the body. (4023-1)
Finally, the Cayce health information consistently maintains that the mental and spiritual aspects of healing are important. Therefore, this protocol provides some specific recommendations for working with attitudes, ideals and behaviors from a holistic perspective.
To summarize the approach advocated in this protocol, the primary therapies are:
Spinal Adjustment to correct any problems that may exist in the nerve supply to the pancreas and associated organs;
Basic Diet recommendations focusing on maintaining balance with an emphasis on natural foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables;
Dietary Supplementation with Jerusalem Artichoke to augment the body's natural supply of insulin;
Moderate Exercise is encouraged in the form of walking and specific exercises;
Colon Hydrotherapy to improve eliminations and functioning throughout the alimentary canal;
Ideals Exercise to develop a healing attitude based on spiritual principles.
Note: The above information is not intended for self-diagnosis or self-treatment. Please consult a qualified health care professional for assistance in applying the information contained in the Cayce Health Database.
注意：以上信息不是鼓勵用於自行診斷和自行治療。請向合格的衛生保健醫療等相關專業人士在參閱凱西健康資料庫後諮詢。
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