Ayurvedic Treatments for Diabetics!

If you are a diabetic then check the ayurvedic practitioners' advice to manage the disease.

Diet

• You should start your ayurvedic treatment of diabetes with diet modification.
• Eliminate sugar and simple carbohydrates and emphasize complex carbohydrates.
• Limit the intake of protein as excessive intake of protein damages the kidneys.
• Limit the intake of fat because there is often a deficiency of pancreatic enzymes, making fat digestion difficult.
• Avoid excess intake of sweets, carbohydrates, dairy products, and fresh vegetables and bitter herbs.

Cleansing

A cleansing program is instituted since many diabetics have auto antibodies. This cleansing program consists of herbal massages and an herbal steam sauna, followed by fasting to cleanse the body. This is followed by an herbal purge for the liver, pancreas, and spleen. Colon therapy is next, first to cleanse the digestive tract and then to reconstitute the system.

Herbs

Use turmeric with aloe vera gel (1 to 3 gms./.035 to .1 oz) during the early stages of diabetes. This regulates pancreas and liver functions.

Juice of bitter melon or bitter gourd (Momordica dioica, Roxb., Karela), or Rose apple (Eugenia Jambos, Linn., Jambu) or two tender leaves of Bilva (Aegle Marmelos, Corr., Bael fruit) and Neem (Melia azadirachta, Ravipriya, or Indian Lilac) to be taken on empty stomach daily.

Juice of Jambu should be taken in an ounce quantity twice daily, and that of Karela in 1-1/2 ounce dose daily.

Shilajit (Swertia Decussata Nimmo.) is another useful medicine (250 mg as a single dose) should be taken, twice daily with juice of stone apple.

Use turmeric. Fill some 00-size capsules with turmeric, and take 2 capsules 3 times a day, a few minutes before meals. Continue this program for up to a month, and then reevaluate your condition. Clinical observation suggests that a person who is insulin dependent will experience a markedly diminished requirement for insulin; the diabetes can often be brought under control.

Take 1/2 teaspoon of ground bay leaf and 1/2 teaspoon turmeric, mixed in 1 tablespoon aloe vera gel. Take the mixture twice a day before lunch and dinner.

The ayurveda preparation Vasanta Kusumakar Ras, is very good but is extremely costly. Take two grains daily with a tsp. of cream or honey. In certain cases, the said medicine brings down sugar lever quite quickly, hence sugar-levels should be carefully monitored.

When sugar has touched its normal range, the dose should be tapered in a graduated manner, and added with 500 mg pill of Chandraprabhavati which is called a 'Poor man's remedy.'

Mix and grind seeds of Fenugreek (Methi) 100 gm, turmeric 50gm, Dakhni Mirch (white pepper). Take one teaspoon of this powder with a glass of milk twice daily. Alternately, immerse and soak one teaspoon of fenugreek seed in water. Take this in the morning, with water or with milk.

Take twice daily, with powder of rose apple stones (powder of Jambu or Jamun-ki-Guthali).

Include decoctions of triphala, fenugreek, musta, arjuna, sandalwood, lodhra, ajwan, gokshura, vidanga, guduchi, haritaki, and chitrak. These may be taken with a small amount of ghee. Gudmar and shilajit are excellent.

Amalaki Churna (500mg), Haldi Powder (Turmeric Powder) 500mg and Naag Bhasma (125mg) should be taken with honey, twice daily ( A 12-hourly dose ).

Useful Foods

Roasted or fried barley, corn flour, light, bitter vegetables, barley porridge, ghee, rice, and herbs like gokshura, gudmar, triphala, musta, cardamom, fenugreek, or coriander, mixed with honey.

Triphala with amalaki juice can also be used to heal diabetes.

Diet Tips

• Eliminate all objects that contain sugar from diet, like wheat, potato, sugar, sugar cane and its juice, jaggery, sweet fruits.
• Reduce fats, especially butter and ghee from diet.
• Take barley soaked in a triphala decoction overnight, then mixed with honey and eaten several times a day.
• Orange, and lemon, may be taken as and when needed.
• Take bitter melon, in any form, without any fear, and Jamun and powder of its seed.
• Take plenty of green vegetables, black gram, soy, fish etc.
• Put one cup of water into a copper vessel at night, and drink the water in the morning.