
Whether to try to prevent diabetes may follow several routes. However, without a lifestyle that is adapted to the disease is not possible to assess progress, and changes in the type of diet and activities are necessary for our body does not succumb to the disease.
In the field of herbal medicine, herbal Chinese medicine have been handled at various times as an effective treatment to cure diabetes, or at least prevent it. This time, researchers at the University of Sydney have conducted a survey of previous studies that associated with Chinese medicine and diabetes, to see if it is effective to treat the disease.
The researchers analyzed the results of 16 previously conducted research involving 1391 cases of diabetes patients, who were initiated in the treatment of Chinese medicine to fight diabetes. In some cases, patients were asked to simply change their lifestyle, while in other cases this is added the use of medicinal herbs.
Suzanne J. Grant, leader of the research, found that in cases where changes in lifestyle were accompanied by regular consumption of herbal medicines the patients perceived symptoms score closer to normal levels in cases in which there was only one change in lifestyle.
The findings are published in the journal The Cochrane Library, and serve to demonstrate the effectiveness of herbal medicine as a treatment for diabetes.