Natural Cure For Diabetes

 

What is natural cure for diabetes? When talking about natural cure for diabetes, we referring to controlling diabetes in natural ways. Although it said as natural cure, we also must take medicine as which had directed by doctor. Some patient which chronic diabetes can't convalesce entirely using natural cure for diabetes method. It must accompanying together with intake of modern medicine.

We can say that natural cure for diabetes are refer to what thing can do and can't do for diabetes patient. This refer to:

1. Proper diet and food control

Food to avoid

Food to be limited

Food to be taken

2. Herbs remedy

3. Taking Vitamins and supplements

4. Controlling weight and exercise

5. Learn and know what diabetes is

 

Natural cure via diet and food control

When using this natural cure for diabetes, it's very important to monitor your blood sugar often – more than 4 times a day and monitor the medications with your health care professional. Check your sugar level frequently so that sugar levels do not go beyond the recommended level.

Foods to avoid

It is always advisable to avoid some foods such as refined sugar, sweets, syrups, glucose, jam, molasses, fruit sugar, ice-cream, cakes, pastries, sweet biscuits, chocolates, soft drinks, condensed milk, cream, sea foods and fried foods.

Fats like butter, ghee and hydrogenated vegetable oil should also be avoided. White sugar and white flour should be reduced drastically.

Avoid all processed foods, junk food, pastries, cookies, canned and preserved foods. Avoid soft drinks since these have a lot of sugar. Smoking should be avoided because it using up of oxygen in the body. It will result in less of oxygen needed by the body to metabolize glucose.

Foods to be limited

Salt consumption should be reduced to a minimum if you want to cure diabetes in natural ways. You will get enough salt form the vegetables and fruits you eat. Reduce sea foods and related product, because it contain high salt level. Reduce animal foods especially red meats. Reduce poultry and egg.

Do not drink tea and coffee more than 2 cups a day. Try to replace it with green tea or herbal teas like Parsley tea, Blueberry leaf, Tea made of tender walnut tree leaves, Water in which kidney bean pods have been cooked is good diabetes.

Reduce caffeine and alcohol. Do not consume alcohol in empty stomach. Alcohol on an empty stomach can cause low blood glucose or hypoglycemia.

Foods that should be consumed in moderation are honey and other natural sugars like palm sugar, dates which can be used instead of white sugar. Remember these should be consumed in very little quantity only.

Pasta, coconut, other nuts, unsweetened juices, eggs should be limited. You can replace it with whole grain, unpolished rice and Soy products. Try to eat whole grain bread instead of white flour.

Fats like olive oil and peanut oil are more advisable that hydrogenated fats. Low fat food like skimmed milk and low fat home made cottage cheese can be taken in moderation. You can also substitute it with yogurt.

Foods to be taken

Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. An alkaline diet with natural food is recommended. Whole grain, fruits, nuts, vegetables, and dairy products form a good diet for the diabetic. Raw vegetables can be taken in high quantities. It has been found that cooked foods raise blood glucose higher than raw, unpeeled foods. Cooking destroys many of the enzymes and some vitamins and minerals.

Eat at least five fruits every day. Fruits like grape fruit, pomegranate juice, Indian blackberry, banana, granny smith apples, fig, cranberries, black berry, kiwi fruits, and citrus fruits are highly recommended. It can be taken as a snack. Cucumber, Lettuce, onion, garlic string beans cucumber radish, tomato, carrot, leaves; spinach turnip, cabbage and Jerusalem artichoke are good for diabetes. Colorful vegetables are good for the functioning of pancreas. Drink Fruit juices without sugar. Brewer’s yeast and sprouted alfalfa and mung beans are good for the body. Unripe banana also can be cooked and eaten.

The most important of all is eating high fiber diet which lowers need for insulin. It releases energy into the body slowly. It has also been found that diabetes decreases and may even disappear in people eating a high fiber or whole food diet. High fiber diet has more chromium and chromium is very good for people with diabetes. Eat lot of potassium rich foods like raw peanuts, tomato, bananas, melons, dried peas, potatoes, apple cider vinegar, skimmed milk powder, wheat but do not take potassium supplements.

Include soluble fiber in your meals like barley, oatmeal, almond meal, dried beans, kidney beans, cooked black beans, peas, cereals, chickpeas, Bengal gram which has low glycemic index, , Black gram, lentils and corn or garbanzo beans to helps considerably in reducing blood sugar levels. Soy products like tofu, tempeh, soy milk, soy powder, soy bean sprouts, nuggets etc are also very good in containing neurological complications in diabetes. You can make bread out of any of the whole grains.

Get a lot of soluble fiber into your diet. When you eat lots of bread, cereal and starchy vegetables you will get enough of starches which is very helpful for diabetes. Insoluble fibers, found in bran (oat bran, wheat bran), whole grain breads, whole grains and nuts, act as intestinal scrubbers by cleaning out the lower gastrointestinal tract. Fiber cleans your intestinal tract by moving out the food so that it wouldn’t stay there and putrefy. Butter milk and yogurt diet are very beneficial.

 

Herbs remedy for natural cure

Herb are so usefully in natural cure for diabetes practice. Here are helpful herbs and vegetables:

Bitter Gourd (Karela): Bitter gourd Momordica-charantia or bitter melon juice contains plant insulin and should be taken 2 ounce 2 times daily on an empty stomach. It is found to be very effective for diabetes. Or It can be cooked as any vegetable and eaten. Or The bitter melon powder can be made by drying. Take bitter gourd powder I teaspoon daily in empty stomach.

Taking half a teaspoon of cinnamon a day may help prevent the onset of diabetes. Even soaking a cinnamon sticks in your tea, could also benefit non-diabetics who have blood sugar problem but are unaware of it.

30 gram fenugreek seeds can be soaked in a glass of water at night and after 12 hours take it and grind it into a paste with the soaked water and drink it on a empty stomach. Or 2 teaspoon if powdered seeds can be taken with water or milk. Or You can add fenugreek into anything you cook.

Eating up to 3 grapefruits a day has also been helpful.

1 tablespoon of amla (Emblica officinalis) after removing the seeds extract the juice and mix with a cup of bitter gourd juice and take daily for 2months in a empty stomach.

Gymnema Sylvestre a traditional ayurvedic herb the leaf of which is to be taken up to 4 grams per day.

Indian blackberry seeds or Jamun seed powder (scientific name of Jamun is Eugenia jambolana or Syzygium cumini L and) is very good for diabetes. Take 1/4th teaspoon with 1 teaspoon honey for 50 days.

Eating freshly crushed raw garlic 3-4 grams a day lowers blood sugar. You can wash it down with a glass of water.

Neem seeds daily 2 times a pinch. Taking a gram of neem leaf daily helps in diabetes.

Bael (Aegle marmelos) : The leave of the bael tree when chewed are very useful in diabetes. Pulp of this fruit could be dried and taken in doses of 5 to 10 gms a day.

A pinch of pure turmeric powders mixed in amla juice (Indian goose berry) and eat daily in empty stomach.

Use of turmeric and gooseberry in equal quantities in powder form taken with warm water is very useful in this behalf. These activate the pancreatic cells and more insulin is produced.

Wild jeerakam cumin seeds black colored 60 gm in 1 liter and boil a reduce it to 1/4th liter and take half divide it into two equal parts and drink one part in the morning and one in the evening 2 times daily.

Grind (Bacopa monnieri )Bhrahmi and add a teaspoon of it to milk and drink.

 

Natural cure with Vitamins and supplements

Supplements in natural forms are more conducive to the body. All 90 Essential Nutrients necessary for health including 98% absorbable plant derived liquid minerals, a multi-vitamin/amino acid supplement, and essential fatty acids to help rebuild the cells. A Chromium/Vandium supplement - will provide a diabetes natural remedy by assisting with natural regulation of blood sugar. An Antioxidant Supplement containing Vitamins A, C, E & Selenium - have been shown to improve both Type I and II diabetes.

Here’s a summary of how some of the essential nutrients work:

Exercise can reduce content of glucose in blood and burn fat in body. Other than that, it can repair circulation blood and amplify heart Chromium and Vanadium – these two minerals can actually help the insulin transport sugar to the cells, or even replace its function. Chromium works to make insulin more effective and Vanadium can actually do the job of insulin and transport sugar to the cells. A study by the University of Vancouver in 1985 stated that: ‘Vanadium will replace insulin for adult onset diabetics.’ See our References section below for this report

Zinc helps blood sugar get into the cells and helps insulin to work better; magnesium also makes the insulin work better and can lower your risk of diabetes complications such as blindness and heart attack; selenium, copper and manganese all have a protective cellular function when blood glucose levels are high and selenium can assist with lowering blood sugar.

Vitamin C and vitamin E help get sugar out of the blood stream and into the cells, keeps the blood vessels healthy and help protect against kidney damage and heart attack. Vitamin E may improve the body's response to insulin. Biotin (a B group vitamin) can lower blood glucose; B6 and B12 along with Folic acid also may help prevent diabetic complications.

Essential fatty acids supplements help rebuild the cells, and may assist with better weight control and reduce blood sugar levels

A herbal extract from a climbing plant known as Gymnema sylvestre has been used since the 6th century BC and helps lower blood sugar and repair damage to insulin producing cells in the pancreas.

 

Weight and exercise for cure diabetes

Controlling your Weight is the best and natural way to treat diabetes. Exercise improves the body's response to insulin. Along with having a proper diet, you should exercise regularly. If nothing else, then swim, jog or walk regularly. You should ideally walk for 30-45 minutes per day, if not more. You can also do various simple exercises in your home. No need to visit a gym for this purpose, although a gym does provide you with an ideal environment for exercising.

Studies have determined that people at high risk, who already had early signs of impaired glucose tolerance, significantly reduced their risk by losing only 5-7 percent of their body weight and performing moderate physical activity for 30 minutes a day.

Yoga and meditation can help a lot. To relieve stress do meditation once a day for 10 to 40 minutes.

Note: An exercise program should be started only with the advice of a doctor to avoid unnecessary complications.

 

Learn how to cure diabetes by know what diabetes is

Knowledge is the best medicine. Learning about the disease is half the battle won. If you learn a little about diabetes, it will help you a long way towards curing it.

You must know, people with diabetes are unable to use the glucose in their food for energy. The glucose accumulates in the bloodstream, where it can damage the heart, kidneys, eyes and nerves. If your diabetes left untreated, it leads to cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, blindness and joint problems. In extreme cases, as you lose circulation to the peripheral tissues, amputations may become necessary. However, the good news is that with proper care, people with diabetes can lead normal, satisfying lives.

Diabetes doesn't mean the end of life. It can be easily controlled, if you are willing to follow the rules. I would suggest that you also join a diabetes membership site or a diabetes support group. This would help you keep focused on your health and you will be able to recover from diabetes faster.

 

Article Archives Edit By: DC&T July 30, 2007