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Alternative Medicine for Diabetes

Maybe your doctor recently broke thelevels
news that you have diabetes. Or you have*Those that help in weight loss and thus
learnt that you are at risk of gettingindirectly control diabetes.
diabetes. And so now you are worriedTo control blood sugar levels
scared of what diabetes will do to you.Vitamin and mineral supplements help the
Worried about the drugs you have to takebody to secrete insulin well that helps
and their side effects. Its not just youin controlling diabetes. It is said that
who alone is worrying. There are aboutminerals like chromium, magnesium,
21 million American adults and childrenvanadium and zinc help control the blood
who suffer from some form of diabetes.sugar levels.
Though insulin and other anti diabeticMany plant foods decrease the blood
drugs are available, many are nowsugar levels by virtue of their fiber
resorting to alternative medicine.content among other mechanisms. Some of
What exactly is diabetes?the popular plant foods that are used to
Diabetes is condition in which thecontrol blood sugar are fenugreek seeds,
glucose in your blood is higher thanpeas, brewer's yeast, buckwheat,
normal either because the hormonebroccoli, garlic, ginger, ginseng,
insulin is not secreted at all orhawthorn, nettle and okra.
whatever insulin is secreted does notTo control weight
work properly. This increased bloodType II diabetes is associated with
glucose affects almost all the importantobesity. It is said that maintaining
organs in our body including the heartoptimum weight is the single most
and kidney. It is said that diabetes isimportant factor in controlling blood
the sixth leading cause of death.sugar in Type II diabetes. People use
Insulin and oral anti diabetic drugs aremany substances as part of alternative
routinely prescribed to treat diabetes.treatment to bring down their weight and
Alternative medicine the new trendthus indirectly control diabetes. Some
The faith in alternative medicine isof the popular substances used to
rising very steeply and it is estimatedcontrol weight are extract of Hoodia
that as much as 50% of the Americangordonii, chitosan, camsogia garcinia,
people are using some form ofpyruvate, germander, Momordica charanta,
alternative treatment. One of theSauropus androgynus and aristolochic
surveys conducted on alternativeacid.
medicine concluded that people feltThe other alternative therapies being
there were added benefits fromused to treat diabetes are - faith
alternative medicine use, lower cost,healing, reflexology, macrobiosis,
and perceived fewer side effects.astrotherapy (tying pieces of coral
The alternative medicine for treatingaround the arms), pearl therapy (oyster
diabetes is basically divided in to twopearls boiled in milk and then drinking
categories:the liquid), meditation, ayurveda and
*Those that can control the blood sugarhomeopathy.



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