Ayurveda and diabetes

Why diabetics need ayurveda

Diabetes is a disease which affects the whole family directly or indirectly. So Adopting self care activities like healthy life style to avoid high risk behavior is advocated and this in turn can be achieved only through Ayurveda.

In ancient Indian texts of Ayurveda preventive measures for diseases are well defined with scientific reasoning which include daily routine & Seasonal conduct , Importance of balanced diet, Exercise, Fasting , Proper sleep , Sexual abstinence etc. All these are very important for promotion of good health & preventing the disease. Ayurveda not merely is concerned with the management of diseases but also concerned to maximize the life span and provides optimal living .Because theobject of Ayurveda is to promote & preserve health in healthy individual & as well as to treat the diseased person.

Right life style does not mean suppressing our genetic nature (Prakriti) but maintaining our primary life sources (Tridoshas) in balanced state, which are the main causatives of disease occurrence. Ayurveda has a lot in this regard its concepts & theories are unique which are very important in preventing the non communicable diseases with common causative factors like diabetes, heart disease, obesity & hypertension etc.
Due to improper knowledge regarding the disease patient tend to develop negative attitude so further creates problems in the management of disease.

Thus people need proper information about prevention, early detection & management of the disease. Hence Madhumeha trust (India) has started Diabetic Education Program for the welfare of diabetics. We have also developed trusted pure herbal safe nontoxic formulations and software at Singhal Diabetic Clinic Haridwar, which provides complete care for all diabetics with the concepts of this holistic system of medicine i.e. Ayurveda.

Why Herbal Drug -

Single Herb or a combination with or without metal/minerals are commonly used against Diabetes (Acquired & congenital) from Vedic Era evidences are documented in Ay. Texts. Our ancient Sears also identified its degenerative nature and complication, So they mentioned some very special herbal formulations against it, and found after long clinical experimental researches that diabetes is curable by Herbs and also described the symptoms of Diabetes free patients.

Now a day the role of herbs in Diabetes is a controversial issue. But every Diabetic try an Ayurvedic recipe in his life time for the same. If a person gets balance formulation after sinchronization of his constitutional(genetic) nature and disease nature, gives best results to control blood sugar level and feel better in his total physiology because herbs are very near to our body constitution, climatic & geographical conditions so gives total therapeutic effects and feeling of well being.

Mode of action of herbal drugs -
Mode of action of herbal drugs is very complex, and not known competely till date. But some reserche work shown that these drugs are insulin sensitisers and improve the quality and secretion of insulin, simultaneously increases the activity of liver secretions, and reduced the blood sugar level through oxidative mechanism after increases glucose utilisation

As a result Herbal drugs provides Good control in 57% newly diagnosed Diabetic, 26% in known Diabetic and more than 64% with combination therapy (Modern OHGA) in NIDDM, while it successfully cuts some units of Insulin in IDDM.

Uses & Administration of Herbal drug -
Herbal combinations can be started when Diet and Exercise fails to control hyperglycemia in NIDDM. By these combinations, obese NIDDM reports a significant reduction in excess weight. The effect of these drugs are also beneficial with modern OHGA.

Combination Therapy -
The rationale for this combination is based on the different sites of action of two different kinds of drugs and the possibility of obtaining additive or potentiating effect and reduces side effects . combination therapy also reduces the insulin requirement upto 22% and may be an appropriate treatment regimen in NIDDM.

Herbal combination with OHGA -
The combination provides satisfactory glycaemic control for years together and can successfully postpone insulin therapy ,by reducing average blood glucose up to 52% (320 mg% to 115 mg%).

Herbs combinations with Insulin -
Herbal drugs increases the sensitivity of liver to insulin and reduction in Insulin requirement in IDDM (Adult) but should not tried below the age of 16 years because results in this age group are not established till date.

Other properties of these drugs are as under -

• Simple to use & fully effective orally.
• Shows optimum therapeutic effects with in 7 to 10 days.
• Never produces bouts of hypoglycemia.
• Practically nontoxic, can be used for any duration of time.
• Successfully reduces the clinical adverse effects of modern OHGA.
• Improves feeling of well being.
• Dose of modern OHGA can be withdrawn gradually in NIDDM.
• Intelligent administration of herbal combination can cut some units of insulin also.

Insulin dependent obese diabetics can be switched over on OHGA with herbal drugs.

Benefits of Combination Therapy -
If herbal drugs added with any Anti Diabetic drug either OHGA or Insulin, it enhances the effect of same drug, and maintain the glycaemic control through out the day.

Metabolic Benefit -

• Combination therapy decrease the fasting & Post parandial sugar level.
• Decrease in Hepatic glucose output
• Decrease FFA
• Effect to the count down phenomena
• Reduce the dose of OHGA.

Herbs can successfully push back Diabetic complication of different degree.
Even newly diagnosed Diabetics (II nd type) can be successfully cured (if having no family history of Diabetes with herbal drugs & methodology.

But our clinical experience is entirely different, New Diabetic never approaches an qualified Ayurvedist as he diagnosed first time. Inspite of consulting the Doctor, Patient generally follow the opinion & advise of his friends, relatives or colleagues or goes for unauthentic miraculous herbal recipes from Sadhu- Mahatma, Pansari, other unqualified fellows and quacks etc. those having no scientific explanations, simultaneously they don’t know the type and severity of this complex disease.
So you are advised finally always remember the Mukul Mantra DEED, try to know much more about disease and adopt harmless scientific. therapy from qualified Doctor.