Diabetes: Herbal Treatment & Indian gooseberry

Due to its high vitamin C content, Indian gooseberry (Amla or Aaonla) is considered valuable in treatment of diabetes.


A tablespoon of its juice, mixed with a cup of resh bitter gourd juice, taken daily for two months helps stimulating the islets of Lengerhans (the isolated group of cells that secrete insulin hormone).

It thus reduces the blood sugar in diabetes. Diet restriction should be strictly observed while taking thismedicine. It will also prevent eye complications in diabetes.

Equal quantity of 'Amla' powder, jamun powder and bitter gourd powder also makes a very useful food remedy for diabetics. A teaspoonful of this mixture, once or twice a day would be effective in checking the progress of the ailment.

Amla, the Urdu name for Indian gooseberry, is easily available in the Indian sub-continent, particularly in Indian and Pakistan. The other names for the Indian gooseberry are Emblica officinalis and Emblica myrobalan.

Diabetes Cure, Management and Treatment-Part II: Natural and Herbal medicines

Following are the several ways of ancient Indian vaidyas/hakeems' remedies for curing diabetes.

1. Take the leaves of Jamun tree (30 grammes) along with 5 black pepper, mix them and make a powder. Take with water twice everyday.

2. Take ripe guavas and place them in the warm ashes of Kande/Uple. Later take the guavas with zeera, black pepper and black salat.

3. Take dry amla and saunf (aniseed), grind in equal quantity and take the mixture twice in the morning and evening (1 tea spoon twice).

4. After breakfast take juice of fresh Bitter Gourd (Karela) in 20-30 grammes.

5. If diabetes is in the family and the patient is very obese, 10 leaves of sweet Neem should be chewed in the morning before breakfast for four months continuously.

6. Take half teaspoon zeera twice daily after grinding it.

7. Mixture of Four spoon amla juice and four spoon Karela (Bitter Gourd) juice daily in the morning before breakfast.

8. Tomatos should be given to patient or in the form of juice as it contains sugar. Shaljam/ Shalgam in the form of vegetable in the meals.

9. The Chakotra fruit should be eaten daily. 3-4 Chakotras a day is advised.

10. Take 50 grammes roasted groundnut every day it will have high nutrition value and would not affect the body.

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Curing Diabetes: Treatment [Ayurvedic, Herbal and Natural]

Karela: For 

What is Diabetes: For a layman diabetes is the disorder in which sugar comes out through urine. Often people do not get to know that they are suffering from this ailment until it is quite late. Earlier, middle-aged men experienced it but now even youths and kids are suffering from it.

Symptoms: Excessive thirst, frequent urination, constipation for long periods, dealy in healing of wounds, anxiety, headache, weakness etc

Medication, Cure and Treatment

1. Karela/Bitter Gourd: 15 grammes of juice of bitter gourd mixed in 100 grammes of water and taken thrice a day can cure the disease. This should be done for three months. Or the powder of bitter gourds that are dried indoors could be taken once in 6 grammes every day. Use of bitter gourd as vegetable in meals is also advisable.

2. Cut the stalk (top conical part/danthal in Urdu, Hindi) of the ladies finger (bhindi) and dry it indoors (not in sunlight). Crush them and add misri (sugar candy) in equal quantity and take half spoon every morning along with normal water before your breakfast. The ailment would be cured.

3. Methi (Fenugreek): This is a wonderful gift of nature. The regular consumption of fenugreek seeds cures diabetes. Before your meals (15 minutes before) take 25 -100 grammes of fenugreek seeds and it can reduce your sugar by a whopping 65%. It also reduces cholestrol.

If fenugreek seds are taken in food also like in chutney/pickle/curry, it can lead to spectacular results. But caution: It will take around two weeks before methi will start showing results.

4. Put 60 grammes of feugreek seeds in a glass full of water. After 12 hrs filter it and drink the water, Do it twice--in the morning and evening for six weeks and then see the results.

5. Aurvedacharyas (the ayurvedic practioners) say that if you just take 'besan/chana ki roti' for ten days, sugar will stop.

6. Jamun Fruit has tremendous properties to cure sugar/ madhumeh/diabetes. Also known as Indian blackberry, this purple fruit, can cure the diabetics. The seed of Jamun should be crushed and and half teaspoon along with water in the evening will stop sugar.

Or take the powder of Jamun seed and bitter gourd together mixed and the powder taken daily one tea spoon both morning and evening can surely work wonders.

7. For excessive urination: You can take haldi churan (turmeric powder) twice in a day (8 grammes twice). This will surely help.

For Diabetics:


Take a 40 minute walk daily, either in the morning or in the evening before your dinner. Honey, date fruit, mango can be taken in place of other sweets. Mango and Jamun juice mixture taken consistently could treat the diabetic and cure the disease.

The carrot juice, radish juice, shaljam and amla are other fruits that improve the condition of the patient. Besides, if excessive thirst then take lemon water. Curd is good. Avoid watching television for long hours. Coconut, groundnut, kaju, soyabean, akhrot, narangi, mooli are all good for diabetics.

[To be continued...]