What is Diabetes ?

• Diabetes is a chronic (long-lasting) health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy. Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas, that acts like a key to let glucose from the food we eat pass from the blood stream into the cells in the body to produce energy. All carbohydrate foods are broken down into glucose in the blood. Insulin helps glucose get into the cells. When your blood sugar goes up, it signals your pancreas to release insulin. If you have diabetes, your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t use the insulin it makes as well as it should. When there isn’t enough insulin or cells stop responding to insulin, too much blood sugar stays in your bloodstream.
  
  Uncontrolled diabetes can cause damage to almost every system of the body, such as heart , vision loss, kidney and nerves –even leading to impotency.

Signs & Symptoms of Diabetes

• Excessive thirst and hunger as the body cells cannot absorb glucose due to lack of insulin.
• When blood sugar levels are high, the kidneys try to remove the excess sugar by filtering it out of the blood. This can lead to a person needing to urinate more frequently, particularly at night.
• Diabetes can impact on a person’s energy levels and cause them to feel very tired or fatigued. This tiredness occurs as a result of insufficient sugar moving from the bloodstream into the body’s cells.
• Unexpected weight loss
• An excess of sugar in the blood can damage the tiny blood vessels in the eyes, which can cause blurry vision.
• Patches of dark skin forming on the creases of the neck, armpit, or groin can also signify a higher risk of diabetes.
• As the body’s immune system can’t function properly, wound healing becomes slower and skin infections can occur.

Active Ingredients and their benefits

• Gymnema sylvestre may help you fight sugar cravings and lower high blood sugar levels. The plant may also play a beneficial role in diabetes treatment, as it may help stimulate insulin secretion and the regeneration of pancreas islet cells — both of which can help lower blood sugar.

• Aegle marmelos leaf extract is being used in Ayurveda as a medicine for diabetes.

• Momordica charantia has significant antidiabetic as well as hypolipidemic activity so that it can be used as an adjuvant along with allopathic treatment of medicine to treat diabetes as well as to delay the late complications of diabetes.

• Trigonella foenum-graecum may be helpful for people with diabetes. May also help improve how the body uses sugar and increases the amount of insulin released.

• Pterocarpus marsupium have been traditionally used for control of blood sugar in Ayurvedic medicine.