Natural Alternatives to Cure Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus is the cells' inability to release toxins and receive nourishing glucose.  Other causes include the inability of the pancreas to regulate how much insulin it is producing and the liver's inability to control how much glycogen it is releasing into the bloodstream.  Many times these disorders are nutritional, inflammatory or caused by poor diet and pharmaceutical side effects.

• Do not treat yourself with herbs or natural treatments.  Find an acupuncturist who is a master herbalist or other natural health physician who knows how to diagnose you and recommend the best treatment for you. 


• Assess the difference between western medicine and natural medicine.
  
  
  
  
  • Western medical philosophy doesn't believe that chronic disease can be cured. Western medicine uses mostly pharmaceuticals to treat disease. Treatment addresses outward symptoms generally without addressing the root cause. Some pharmicutcals do treat such root causes as enzyme difficiencies by replicating the enzyme, but generally, if you are in pain, you are given a pain shot. If your insulin is too high, you are given insulin. Treatments are every day for the rest of your life and therefore must be managed.
  
  
  • Natural medical and indigenous medical philosophies believe that chronic disease is absolutely curable, if the patient wants to be cured enough to do what is necessary. Treatments are based on individual symptoms and differential diagnosis.  Herbs, exercises and modification in diet is recommended  to treat the illness at the root upward to manifestation. Unlike western medicine, herbs are taken until the person's differential diagnosis changes, then the herbs are adjusted accordingly.  Herbal prescriptions may change many times while treating the same illness.
  
  
  
  

• Use your diet to treat diabetes.
  
  
  
  
  • Increase green vegetables and all vegetables in your diet.  Vegetables should be at least 50 percent of your diet.
  
  
  • Eliminate extra salt and ALL sugar, including corn syrup, honey, brown sugar, white flour, potatoes, all sodas including diet, junk food, packaged prepared meals, bread, pastries, cookies, etc.  
  
  
  • Though it is best to allow the palate to reset to increase sense of salt and sweet, acceptable sugar substitutes are stevia, agave nectar and luo han guo. 
  
  
  
  


• Take supplements under the supervision of your doctor to treat diabetes.
  
  
  
  
  • Chromium picolinate, vanadium, zinc, vitamin D, vitamin C, supplement with liquid vitamins high in B vitamins.
  
  
  • Drink lots of unsweetened lemon water.  This will raise blood pH.
  
  
  
  


• Use herbs under the supervision of a licensed herbalist to treat diabetes.
  
  
  
  
  • Cinnamon, celery seed, bitter melon, juniper berries all are used to lower blood sugar.