Diabetes

Home Remedies
Some home remedies help to regulate the blood sugar level. You can try out some of these remedies which compliment along with the diet for diabetics and regular exercises to lower blood sugar levels and protect from diabetes related damages.

Have

• 1 litre of cinnamon water daily. Cinnamon contains a chemical to help utilize blood sugar naturally in your body. Add 3 table spoon of cinnamon to 1 litre of boiling water. Simmer for 20 minutes in a low flame, then strain the mixture. 
• Fresh or dried bitter gourd (bitter melon) or 2 ounces of its juice every day. Bitter melon increases the insulin secreting cells in the pancreas and daily intake of juice reduces the risk of developing diabetic retinopathy.
• Wild (Black) cumin boiled in water regularly.
• Equal quantities of turmeric powder and dried gooseberry powder with honey or drink equal quantities of gooseberry juice and fresh turmeric juice in an empty stomach regularly.
• Regularly, the juice of crushed 'touch me not' with its roots.
• First thing in the morning, have the juice of crushed fish-berry (amruth) soaked in water for a day.
• Make coffee with powdered fried fenugreek and wheat, taken in equal quantities.
• Garlic every day early in the morning in an empty stomach.
• Tender curry leaves (fresh) twice a day.
• Crush guava leaves, a handful and 3 grams of cumin together. Boil with one glass of water and make it half.
• Drink 8 glass of water in the morning and walk for one hour.
• The leaves of gymnema sylvestre (Gurmur- a climbing vine), a traditional Ayurvedic medicine for diabetics,  significantly reduces the metabolic effects of sugar by preventing the intestines from absorbing the sugar molecules during the process of digestion. Add 3 quarters of gymnema powder to one glass of boiling water, strain and drink it warm twice a day, 1 hour before breakfast and 1 hour before dinner for best results. The leaves can also be ground and had. It has the property of blocking sugary taste and thus curbs the craving for sweet things.