Hepatogenic diabetes & Chinese medicine. (Chinese Medicine Update). From: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | Date: December 1, 2002| Author: Flaws, Bob | COPYRIGHT 2002 The Townsend Letter Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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Excerpted in part from Bob Flaws, Lynn Kuschinski & Robert Casanas' The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus with Chinese Medicine, Blue Poppy Press, 2002

Keywords: Chinese medicine, diabetes mellitus, liver disease

Because this issue is devoted to both diabetes and liver disease, my column this month is on hepatogenic diabetes. It is estimated that 1....

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