Research Progress on External Treatment of Diabetes Foot

Diabetes foot, as one of the most serious complications of diabetes, has a serious impact on families and society due to its high incidence rate, high disability rate, high mortality rate, poor curative effect and high medical costs. However, modern medicine mainly treats diabetes foot with systemic comprehensive treatment and local treatment. The systemic treatment includes sugar control, lipid reduction, anti infection, and local blood circulation promotion; The treatment of local wounds mainly focuses on the treatment of diabetes foot ulcer wounds, such as debridement, vacuum sealing drainage, skin flap transplantation, vascular intervention, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and other methods. In recent years, with the deepening and improvement of medical research, the treatment methods of diabetes foot have become more and more diverse, among which the research on the treatment of diabetes foot by external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine has continued to deepen. This article summarizes the external treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine for diabetes foot in the past 10 years by consulting literature, and discusses the treatment according to the patient’s symptoms and signs, as well as the application of external treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine such as external washing, wet compress, fumigation, acupuncture, moxibustion, and encirclement, aiming to improve the clinical efficacy of diabetes foot treatment through the rational use of various therapies. This article summarizes the progress of the treatment research of diabetes foot above.