Comments on: Is there an herbal supplement that lowers blood sugar?

By: hava

hava — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:57:59 +0000

These pranayam exercises will help control the diabetes and the side effects.Build up the timing gradually.If you feel tired or dizzy, stop and resume later(after about a minute).The benefits will be noticed in weeks as the sugar level is checked daily.Over the long term the diabetes will be in full control and the medicine can be reduced in consultation with the doctor.

Kapalbhati -(Do it before eating) Push air forcefully out through the nose about once per second. Stomach will itself go in(contract in). The breathing in(through the nose) will happen automatically. Establish a rhythm and do for 15 to 30 minutes twice a day.(Max 60 min/day)
Children under 15 years – do 5 to 10 minutes twice a day.
Not for pregnant women. Seriously ill people do it gently.

Anulom Vilom –
Close your right nostril with thumb and deep breath-in through left nostril
then – close left nostril with two fingers and breath-out through right nostril
then -keeping the left nostril closed deep breath-in through right nostril
then – close your right nostril with thumb and breath-out through left nostril.
This is one cycle of anulom vilom.
Repeat this cycle for 15 to 30 minutes twice a day(maximum 60 minutes in one day).
Children under 15 years – do 5 to 10 minutes twice a day.
You can do this before breakfast/lunch/dinner or before bedtime or in bed.Remember to take deep long breaths into the lungs.You can do this while sitting on floor or chair or lying in bed.

Also everyday, press the centre point of the palm of both your hands 40 times with the thumb and press the tips of all fingers 40 times each.
Also do this: kneel down, breathe out,pull in stomach, keep your both hands on stomach, bend forward and try to touch the floor with your forehead.Do this 3 times to stimulate the kidney and pancreas.
Continue the exercises once a day, after the diabetes is in full control.
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By: dingding

dingding — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:35:59 +0000

I wish people would quit asking this…the answer is no. There are no herbal or homeopathic remedies for lowering blood glucose. Even cinnamon has been proven not to work. Only insulin, oral medications, and exercise can lower blood glucose.
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Type 1 for 24 years

By: ayeka678

ayeka678 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:48:59 +0000

Chromium picolinate (found in a lot of diet pills) makes you more sensitive to insulin and can result in a lowering of blood sugar.
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Type One Diabetic who has gotten low sugars first hand from chromium picolinate.

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/ans/psychology/health_psychology/chromiumpicolinate.htm

By: Tahoe

Tahoe — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:16:59 +0000

Cinnamon is not an herb, but I have a friend who is borderline diabetic, and she uses cin. on everything, and makes tea with it, too. Plus a really healthy diet. If you are insulin dependent though, there is nothing that can replace that.
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By: gregyamkingbrown

gregyamkingbrown — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:50:59 +0000

Cinnamon does.
Also there are many bottles of different herbs that would help with this:
http://www.discount-herbal-nutritional-supplements.com/organ_supplements/pancreas_formula.htm
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By: davelennv

davelennv — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:17:59 +0000

No. Herbal supplements are a joke. If they worked, would not everybody be on them? Go to any health food store and look at the bottle of any supplement. It will say that the statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, and it is not intended to treat or cure any disease.
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