Diabetes is a severe endocrine disease. Every year, the number of patients grows exponentially: over the past 10 years, according to the World Health Organization, the number of people suffering from diabetes has increased 4 times. These catastrophic statistics clearly indicate the presence of a serious problem in modern medicine. Various medications are used to treat diabetes, the first of which is insulin. However, there are proven phytotherapeutic methods for the treatment of this disease. Of course, they can be used only as an aid to treatment, but not as the main method.
What you need to know about diabetes and effective herbal remedies?
Overview of Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetes
Diabetes is an endocrine pathology in which a violation by the pancreas of a substance such as insulin and / or a violation of the digestibility of the tissues of this hormone occurs. Insulin is designed to break down glucose. As a result of metabolic disturbances, a sharp increase in sugar concentration occurs in the patient’s blood, which leads to a host of unpleasant consequences, including a diabetic coma and a fatal outcome. In addition, the development of blindness, gangrene of the foot, bleeding, etc. is possible.
Depending on the underlying causes of the development of the disease, diabetes is usually divided into two types.
• Type 1 diabetes is of autoimmune origin. In this type of disease, a person’s own immunity takes pancreatic cells as a dangerous pathogen and begins to intensively produce antibodies to fight an imaginary infectious agent. This form of the disease is characterized by an absolute deficiency of the hormone insulin and develops at any age.
• Diabetes of the second type develops, as a rule, in people with obesity and is easier to correct with medication. With it, the production of insulin is usually, on the contrary, much more intense, all the more strange that glucose is at a high level of insulin concentration. But there is really nothing strange. In diabetes of the second type, digestibility by glucose tissues is impaired and resistance develops.
Ginger for type 2 diabetes has been recognized as an indispensable means of preventing complications and helping to alleviate the condition.
How to choose the “right” ginger root for type 2 diabetes
Until recently, ginger was a rare guest in Russia and the CIS countries. Meanwhile, this useful root has long been used in folk medicine of various nations. For the effect to be maximum and extremely useful, you need to know how to choose high-quality ginger and prepare it correctly.
When buying ginger it is important to note. Almost the entire root that lies on the shelves comes to us from Mongolia and, especially, China. When planting, growing and preparing to ship to us, this product undergoes multiple chemical treatments. Such a root cannot be called useful in any way. However, the choice is small. But everything is not so scary, the main thing is to prepare ginger for use.
An important rule, immediately after the purchase, it is absolutely impossible to eat such a root in food. The first thing to do is cut it into rings, clean it and send it to a container with cold water for one and a half to two hours. Thanks to this soaking, ginger will be safer. Water will draw all toxins out of it.
When choosing, it is important to pay attention to the color and structure of the root. Quality ginger is never dark in color. Preference should be given to a smooth root of a slightly creamy color.
If you don’t want to “mess around” with the root, you can buy grated powder in the form of ginger. It has a less pronounced taste, but retains all the beneficial properties. The main thing to remember is that grated ginger should not be white. Color can vary from cream to yellow.
Useful properties of ginger for type 2 diabetes
Answering the question whether ginger is possible or not in diabetes, it should be said that it is not only possible, but also necessary. After all, ginger is a real storehouse of substances useful for a diabetic.
• This truly wonderful root contains more than 500 different nutrients.
• Ginger is rich in various vitamins: A, B and C. Moreover, the content of vitamin C in this root is 12 times higher than in lemon and three times higher than in strawberries.
• The root contains salts of almost all trace elements necessary for the human body, including zinc, phosphorus and chromium.
• In addition, ginger root is an indispensable source of amino acids that enter the body only with food, essential oils and healthy acids.
Thus, the answer to the question whether or not ginger can be used in diabetes becomes obvious.
Indications and contraindications for ginger
It should be noted right away. Even such a useful product as ginger root has its own indications and contraindications. However, the list of the latter, fortunately, is relative.
What are the indications and contraindications for ginger?
Ginger has many useful properties, especially when it comes to type 2 diabetes. He is able to help the diabetic as follows:
• Ginger is used as a powerful immunomodulator of plant origin. It is known that patients with type 2 diabetes have weakened immunity and are more susceptible to the development of influenza and the common cold, as well as much more serious diseases. Ginger, due to the high concentration of essential oils, helps to strengthen the immune system and effectively fight diseases. However, this property makes it rather dangerous for type 1 diabetes.
• It is known that patients with diabetes have problems with the gastrointestinal tract and often experience nausea. In addition, pregnant women with diabetes suffer from severe manifestations of toxicosis. Ginger root, as proven in practice, has an antiemetic effect and reduces the intensity of nausea.
• Returning to the gastrointestinal tract. Due to the high content of essential amino acids, ginger root helps to normalize digestion, and also improves metabolic processes in the body. A particularly important property of ginger for diabetics is its ability to stimulate the pancreas and reduce the concentration of glucose in the blood.
• Ginger effectively fights fat deposits on the walls of blood vessels and lowers the level of "bad" cholesterol in the blood.
• This root in itself has an anti-inflammatory effect, helping to fight infections.
• Finally, ginger root is indicated for pain: it produces an analgesic effect.
There are many useful properties of ginger, but there are many contraindications to its use.
• Ginger should be used with caution to people suffering from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, such as: gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, gastritis, etc. Essential oils irritate the gastric mucosa and can lead to an exacerbation of the disease.
• With caution, ginger is recommended for experienced diabetics themselves. As the disease worsens, vascular fragility develops. Ginger tends to thin the blood, therefore it is contraindicated for people prone to bleeding.
• Do not use ginger, along with sugar-lowering, antihypertensive drugs. It enhances their action.
Ways to use Ginger
There are many ways to eat ginger, here are just a few of them:
• Tea with ginger. To prepare it, you need to take a few rings of peeled ginger soaked in water and chop it. After this, the root is poured with boiling water. A thermos is best suited for these purposes, however, in its absence, any dishes will fit. It is recommended to insist tea for 3-4 hours. After time - the infusion is ready. It can be consumed both independently and added to tea. To add taste, it is recommended to drink ginger tea with lemon and honey.
• Juice from ginger root. Squeezed through cheesecloth after grinding ginger into a grater. It is recommended to drink no more than two drops at a time.
• Gingerbread cookies with ginger. Ginger in small quantities can be added to gingerbread. For every 200 grams of flour, it is recommended to fill in a teaspoon of chopped root.
Ginger root is a useful remedy for diabetes mellitus of the second type and not only. But like any phytotherapeutic remedy, it should be eaten wisely. Before use, it is recommended to ask the opinion of the attending physician.
