In Ayurveda Diabetes is known as “Madhumeha”, there are twenty type of Prameha specified in Ayurveda
According to some research, around nine in ten adults with type 2 diabetes are overweight or obese. The more overweight you are, the more likely you are to develop type 2 diabetes. People with severe obesity have a greater risk than obese people with lower BMIs and more than 7 million of them do not know they have it.
However, if you have type 2 diabetes, natural home remedies for diabetes and some lifestyle changes can help you return your blood sugar levels to the normal range.
Characteristic Symptom
- Increased frequency of urination; large amount of urine; low specific gravity of urine; excessive thirst and general body weakness.
- There may be signs of diabetic degeneration, delay or non healing of wounds and muscles wasting.
Ayurvedic View
Twenty types of Prameha have been specified in Ayurvedic texts:
a. Caused by vitiation of Vata or air body humor; there are 4 varieties that are considered incurable.
b. Caused by vitiation of Pitta or fire humor of body; there are 6 varieties that are difficult to cure.
c. Caused by vitiation of Kapha or phlegm humor of body; there are 10 varieties that are considered curable.
Diabetes Home Remedies
- Pound seeds of Karela and take 3 to 5 gm of the powder twice along with warm water.
- Extract fresh juice of Karela. Take empty stomach.
- Pound together the tender leaves of Neem and Bilva and roll in to small balls. Take 2 to 4 of these balls along with warm water empty stomach.
- Bilva has the property of reducing blood sugar levels and abating excessive urination. Take approx. 20 ml of the juice extracted from Bilva leaves. On an empty stomach.
- Bramhi is pungent and astrigent and believed to be helpful in Diabetes. Patients are adviced to supplement their routine therapy with this preparation.
- Jamun is useful in treatment of Diabetes. Prepare a powder by crushing the dried seeds of the fruit. Take 1 tablespoon of the powder to supplement your routine.
- Extract the juice from a few juvenile leaves of the mango tree and take it with equal quantity of the juice of Karela on an empty stomach during initial stage of Diabetes.
- Chewing Neem leaves empty stomach is also helpful in many ways.
- Fresh juice of Amla fruit is also helpful in Diabetes.