Can Herbs for Diabetes help to
reduce blood sugar?

Impossible! Most people think that herbs for diabetes are useless for improving diabetes. At least that's true for conventional medication which can only control it.

However, Traditional Chinese Medicine has its methods for improving this common disease. But treating diabetes with natural herbs can be quite complicated because more than one healing aspect are involved.

How Ganoderma Lucidum herb help to improve diabetes? Besides Ganoderma, what other herbs and supplements you can take to improve and control your diabetes?

The root of most diseases
Diabetes happens when blood sugar level constantly stays at a higher level. This leads to many other diseases such as:

• high blood pressure
• kidney failure
• stroke
• blindness
• food ulcer
• and even impotence

Conventional treatment for diabetes uses drug medications to suppress blood sugar level. Before taking any herbs for diabetes, you too must begin your treatment with medication.

It helps to quickly reduce blood sugar level and maintain it. However, medication doesn't cure it. It only controls this disease and prevent other associated health problems.

Medication side effect
There are 2 groups of diabetes medication. The first type mainly forces the already weakened pancreas to produce more insulin hormone to reduce blood sugar level.

The second type mainly suppresses sugar absorption in intestines, thus maintaining blood sugar at a safe level.

However, long term consumption of diabetes medication causes two main side effects. One is the hardening of blood vessels, causing stroke and heart disease. The other side effect is the interference with fats metabolism, causing a patient to become fatter.

As you might have seen, some diabetes patients under long term medication are still affected with kidney failure and stroke. This shows that conventional medication alone is not the complte answer to treating diabetes.

How TCM treats diabetes
The recommended treatment for diabetes is to combine western medication with herbs for diabetes prescribed according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

TCM looks at diabetes with a different view. It regards diabetes as a disease of excessive heat in the body and divides it into 3 condtions, namely:

• Upper part heat (lung)
• Middle part heat (stomach)
• Lower part heat (kidney)

According to each specific condition, TCM doctor will prescribe the suitable herbs for diabetes to improve the actual cause of this disease. In the above 3 conditions, the main required healing functions are to:

1) Reduce body heat
2) Enhance kidney energy
3) Enhance "yin" energy
4) Enhance body energy
5) Improve blood circulation

4 Herbs for Diabetes
With these healing principles, the first recommended herbs for diabetes are Five Leaves Ginseng herb (Rhinacanthus Nasutus) and White Crane Lingzhi herb (Gynostemma Pentaphyllum).

These herbal plants effectively reduce body heat of the upper, middle and lower part. Both are used to reduce high blood pressure and high cholesterol too.

The second herb is Cordyceps Sinensis. This precious fungus is proven to improve kidney energy. It was used since ancient times by the Chinese to improve weak body constitution.

The third supplement for diabetes is bee's Royal Jelly. This natural supplement has the highest content of natural hormones. It helps to increase "yin" energy of the body. In TCM, "yin" is associated with body fluid such as blood, hormones, saliva, eye tear and joints fluid.

So, taking Royal Jelly helps to naturally increase insulin hormone produced by pancreas.

Ganoderma for Diabetes
The fourth herb is Ganoderma Lucidum. This herb helps to boost body energy and improve blood circulation. Therefore, Ganoderma Lucidum is one of the important herbs for diabetes.

Although Ganoderma Lucidum herb alone is not enough, it can help to improve your blood circulation and increase their immune system. This prevents the disease from worsening.

The polysaccharides found in Ganoderma and Cordyceps are also proved to help insulin to transfer sugar into body cells.

The requirement
Before this, please take note of the following:

1) Reduce sugar and sweet food intake
2) Don't get angry and stressful
3) Exercise regularly

With the above lifestyles kept in mind, taking herbs for diabetes can certainly improve this common disease in the long run.

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