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Definition
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Diabetes mellitus is a disease known since time
immemorial. The word Diabetes comes from
the Greek term meaning "to siphon to pass through", and mellitus derived
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from the Latin word "honey" which describes the sweetness of the
diabetic urine.
It is a condition in which the pancreas does notproduce enough insulin to burn up the body's intake of sugars from food or the pancreas produces plenty of insulin, but the cellsstop responding to the insulin that is produced,
so that glucose in the blood
cannot be absorbed.
There are two types of Diabetes. Type I Diabetes, sometimes called juvenile
Diabetes or insulin-dependent Diabetes, begins most commonly in childhood.Inthis form of Diabetes, the body produces little or no insulin. Due to that fact, these persons need to have
injections of insulin 1-2 times per day.
Type II, called age-onset, adult-onset Diabetes or noninsulin-dependent
Diabetes, begins over the age of 40 and occurs most often in people who are
overweight and do not exercise.
Many people with Type II Diabetes can control the condition with diet and oral
medications, but insulin injections sometimes are needed.
Gestational Diabetes, another form of Diabetes, can
develop during pregnancy andgenerally resolves after the baby is delivered. The condition can usually control by diet, however, insulin injections may be required. Women who have gestational
Diabetes are at higher risk for developing Type II Diabetes within 10 years.
Causes & Symptoms
The causes of Diabetes mellitus are unclear, but it
seems to be:
In type I:
In type II:
- Age
- Obesity
- Hereditary factor
- Pancreatic disease
- Alcoholism
Some medications include
treatments for high blood pressure, drugs with hormonal activity, antidepressants,
and the anti-inflammation drug.
Symptoms of Diabetes are:
- Tiredness
- Sudden weight loss
- Numbness in the feet and legs
- Frequent urination
- Slow wound healing
- Blurred vision
- Excessive thirst
- Excessive hunger
Nature Medicine and Home Remedies for Diabetes
Home remedy # 1: Eat one or two freshly crushed raw garlic daily.
Home remedy # 2: Mix a tablespoon of lemon juice with a cup of freshbitter-gourd juice. Drink it daily.
Home remedy # 3: Soak15
gm of fresh leaves of mango in 250 ml of water
overnight, and squeeze them well in the water in the morning and then take this
filtrate every morning.
Home remedy # 4: Mix a tablespoon onion juice in a cup of water and drink
it once a day
Home remedy # 5: Drink the waterin which kidney bean pods
have been cooked.
Home remedy # 6: Drink2 ounce of melon juice on
an empty stomach twice daily.
Home remedy # 7: Take a half a teaspoon of cinnamon a day
or even soak a cinnamon sticks in a tea.
Home remedy # 8: Mix 2 teaspoon of fenugreek seeds powder
with a glass of water or milk every night.
Home remedy # 9: Mix one teaspoonof turmeric powder with
one teaspoon gooseberry powder in a glass of warmwater.
Natural Cures Recommendations
Do exercise such as walking,
jogging, calisthenics, aerobics, bicycle riding, or swimming and control
weight loss.
Take a bath of cold water once a day. This increases the circulation and enhances
the capacity of the muscles to use sugar.
Use a home blood glucose monitoring kits to test theirblood glucose levels several times during a day and use this information toadjust their diet or doses of insulin.
Avoid smoking
Eat lacto-vegetarian diet rich of natural foods (Fruits,nuts, vegetables and low-fat dairy products),
Avoid refinedsugar, sweets, syrups, molasses, fruit sugar, ice-cream, cakes, pastries, sweetbiscuits, chocolates, soft drinks, condensed milk, cream and fried foods.
Replace fats likebutter, ghee and hydrogenated vegetable oil with olive oil.
Reduce animalfoods especially red meats and salt consumption.
Replace tea andcoffee with green tea or herbal teas like Parsley tea or Blueberry leaf.
Replace white flour with whole grain bread, unpolished rice and Soya products.
Drink at least 8glasses of water a day.
Eat soy productslike tofu, tempeh, soymilk, soya powder and soy bean sprouts.
Some e-books of Diabetes and Natural Cures
A Comprehensive Guide To Beating Diabetes
Diabetes Cure EBook.
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