Herbal Cures For Diabetes

Diabetes is an excessive flow of urine, and has its primary affection in the kidneys. It more generally attacks men than women, often between twenty and thirty-five years of age. The urine is always of a pale straw colour; it sometimes contains a little blood, and not infrequently astringent matter analogous to that of chyle.

The taste of the urine is sweet, its smell commonly faint and peculiar, sometimes similar to sweet whey or milk and water. The urine yields a syrup by evaporation; this sugar, when properly purified, appears identical, both in properties and composition, with vegetable sugar, more like the sugar of grapes than that of the sugar-cane.

The average quantity of urine daily discharged may be stated as 12 or 15 pints, a quantity surpassing the liquid taken. This plus over the liquid taken may be absorbed from the atmosphere by the surface of the body, as also an extraordinary quantity of water is compounded in the lungs themselves.

In diabetic subjects the blood is deficient of its usual quantity of hydrogen gas, which doubtless has been consumed by uniting in the lungs with the oxygen of the external air and thus forming water, which water thus generated is taken up by the lymphatics, carried to the bronchial glands, and through them poured into the general mass of blood, whence it is thrown off by the kidneys.

Symptoms.—Great thirst, a voracious appetite, obstruction of cutaneous perspiration, emaciation, dryness of the skin, costiveness, muscular debility, and prodigious flow of urine.

Causes.—Affections of the chest, relaxation of the kidneys, and too frequent use of strong diuretics; over-fatigue; hard drinking of spirituous liquors, and at the same time the patients being much exposed to cold. Some have an hereditary disposition to the disease.

Mode of Cure.—The disease may generally be cured at the commencement, but seldom after it has continued some time. A diet entirely of animal food, with an entire abstinence from vegetable or other matter capable of forming sugar in the stomach. Remove the saccharine matter from the stomach, which may generally be accomplished in three or four days.

Then administer strong astringents, with a mixture of tonics, nothing being better than the following, which are both astringents and tonic: Bistort, Tormentil, Uva Ursi, Wilow Bark, Red Roses, Cinchona, Oak Bark, Logwood, and many others. Make a composition as follows: Bistort Root, a teaspoonful; Willow Bark, 3 teaspoonfuls; Oak Bark, 1 teaspoonful; Cloves ½ teaspoonful; of which take 1 scruple in a cupful of whey twice a day.

The patient should lie on a mattress, as a soft bed is detrimental to the kidneys. After the cessation of the diabetic symptoms, pay attention to the tone of the stomach, for it often remains impaired some time, and keep the bowels in regular order.

It is likely that you may not have experience in diagnosing and treating the following medical conditions, so if in any doubt do not hesitate to contact a doctor as soon as possible.