Can Herbs Help You to Manage Your Diabetes?

Type two diabetes is a condition which affects more and more people every year. Some of the countries with the largest populations in the world have ten per cent of their adult population suffering from the condition. In China that’s hundreds of millions of people seriously ill. The main tact for dealing with type two diabetes is the use of diet and exercise plans along with careful monitoring of blood-sugar levels. Providing these patients stick to their plans and don’t let their blood-sugar levels spike too high they can live long and healthy lives. Paying no attention to diabetes can be a short and painful road indeed!

As well as the medical routes to diabetes management, there are certain herbs which offer assistance to those who are struggling to manage their conditions:

–       Fenugreek or Methi

When used in the past by people with type two diabetes, fenugreek has been shown to slow the absorption of sugar by the stomach during digestion. This means less sugar is taken from your food in one go but rather you get it at a much steadier and drawn out pace. This makes it much easier for your body to handle the sugar and makes it less likely for your blood-sugar levels to get out of control. Fenugreek is also supposed to stimulate your pancreas, creating insulin at a much quicker rate.

–       Bitter Gourd or Karela

Karela has shown the potential to lessen a sudden spike in blood-sugar after a meal. This will help you regulate it and prevent any permanent damage from being done to you.

–       Pterocarpus or Vijausar

Pterocarpus has been shown to limit the absorption of glucose in the intestines. This would mean less glucose gets into your blood stream after a meal which in turn would make managing your blood-sugar levels much easier for you to accomplish.