Overview

Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects your body's ability to regulate blood sugar or glucose levels. Glucose is the fuel that powers your body's cells; however, it requires a key to enter them. Insulin is the key. People with type 2 diabetes do not respond to insulin as well as they should, and later in the disease, they frequently fail to produce enough insulin. 

Type 2 diabetes primarily occurs as a result of obesity and lack of exercise. Some people are genetically more at risk than others. Type 2 diabetes is largely preventable by staying a normal weight exercising regularly and eating a healthy diet (high in fruits and vegetables and low in sugar and saturated fats). Diabetes can cause chronically elevated blood sugar levels. This raises the risk of diabetic complications.

Causes

Obesity and overweight Lack of physical activity Poor diet Psychological stress Gestational diabetes Polycystic ovarian syndrome Urbanisation are all risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes. Most cases of diabetes involve multiple genes, each of which contributes slightly to an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. A variety of medications and other health issues can increase the risk of developing diabetes.

Symptoms

Symptoms include

• Frequent urination (polyuria)

• Increased thirst (polydipsia), 

• Increased hunger (polyphagia) 

• Weight loss

• Blurred vision

• Itchiness 

• Peripheral neuropathy

• Recurrent vaginal infections

• Loss of taste and fatigue.

Ayurvedic View

Prameha- Here the word prameha means- the root word 'mih sechane' meaning watering, here it means urination, and' pra' means excess in both frequency and quantity. Due to a sedentary lifestyle and consumption of food that is heavy, unctuous, newly harvested rice, curd, excess of sweet taste, etc, virudha ahara (incompatible food), adhyashana (intake of food before digestion of previous food), etc, causes aggravation of kapha dosha, which affects dhatus like medas (fat), mamsa (muscle), udaka (lymph), etc, along with low digestive power, these dushitha dhatus (vitiated body fluids and tissues) is taken down towards urinary system, causing diabetes. Due to the predominant dosha involved, there are various symptoms but the main symptom is the excretion of aavila mutra (unctuous or turbid urine) with a change in the normal color of urine. Ayurveda way of approach is to correct manda agni (metabolism), bring dosha back to prakruta avastha (healthy, balanced state), reduce the symptoms, and prevent complications by ayurvedic panchakarma treatment and medicine, guiding towards following of healthy diet and lifestyle, ayurveda will help in identifying risk factors like genetic predisposition risk, sedentary lifestyle risk, not having proper circadian rhythm, by knowing, ayurveda treatment will help to prevent and control diabetes.

Ayurvedic Treatments

Bashpa Swedanam   Prakshalanam   Avagaham  Churna pinda swedanam   Lepanam Vamanam   Takara Dhara   Kashaya Dhara   Thalapodhichil

Naturopathy Treatments

Hip bath   Enema   Steam bath   Sun bath   Mud Packs   Manipulative therapy   Diet therapy   Clinical yoga   Cyclic meditation   Pranayama