Treatment of diabetes is selected based on the type of disease and its severity. His goal - to reduce elevated blood glucose levels and prevent or delay complications. Typically prescribed hypoglycemic agents or insulin. Dieting - another important component of the treatment of this disease. For additional methods, many patients prefer to choose natural treatment for diabetes, such as herbal medicine.

As herbs affect the blood glucose level

In the treatment of diabetes can be applied about two hundred species of medicinal plants. They are rich in bioactive substances, which reduce plasma glucose levels.

The mechanism of action of these plants has not been studied until the end, but it is assumed that they have some alkalizing effect. In weakly alkaline medium, glucose is converted to fructose and mannose, and for the assimilation of these substances is not required insulin. Some herbs help to restore the pancreatic cells that produce necessary for the regulation of carbohydrate metabolism hormone.

When applying herbal remedies to achieve a therapeutic effect will take a long time, since herbs contain the active substance in a small amount. Improving on the background of herbal medicine is achieved in about a month after people begin to regularly take drugs charges.

In less severe diabetes using diet therapy and herbal medicine can achieve a state of compensation, in which the glucose level is within normal limits. With an average degree of severity of the disease herbs used in conjunction with hypoglycemic agents or insulin.

Medicinal plants are used in the treatment of diabetes

All the plants that are effective in diabetes, may be divided into several groups. The most commonly used are the following:

• Adaptogens - plants that increase the body's resistance to many adverse factors. This group includes the Chinese magnolia vine, ginseng, Rhodiola rosea, Eleutherococcus, Aralia Manchu;
• Plants that have a diuretic (diuretic) action and contribute to the removal of excess glucose: horsetail, birch and cranberries;
• Stimulants restore β-cells of the islets of Langerhans, which produce insulin: blueberries Benefits and harms of blueberries: the health of the forest , Black and white mulberry, walnut, licorice, burdock planting flax;
• Plants that contain chromium: mountain arnica, a medicinal ginger Ginger and the most unexpected, but pleasant useful properties , Siberian fir, gray alder, marsh Potentilla and sage. Chromium increases the effects of insulin and reduces the concentration of glucose in the blood serum. Another useful feature of this trace element - reducing cravings for sweet foods;
• Zinc-containing plants: Bird Highlander, corn silk, sage Sage - cvyaschennaya grass Canadian goldenrod. Zinc is essential for normal functioning of insulin. It also increases the body's resistance to many infections and improve the barrier properties of the skin. This feature is especially important for diabetics because they are prone to infection of wounds, which usually do not heal for a long time;
• Biguanidsoderzhaschie plants: Galega (Galega officinalis), planting peas, beans and blueberries. They do not allow collapse of insulin, glucose uptake is normalized by that facilitate its penetration in the cell;
• Inulinosoderzhaschie plants: dandelions, elfwort, Jerusalem artichoke, chicory (people with diabetes can use it instead of tea or coffee). Inulin - a natural sugar substitute, so the products that contain it, reduce blood glucose levels and normalize metabolic processes. Also inulin associated with toxic and bulking agents that are formed in the gut or enter the body through food, and promotes their excretion.

Typically used not individual plants and their charges. The last recommended to alternate every two or three months. But before you start taking any drug collection, be sure to find out what the patient has no contraindications to its member plants.

Fruit, berries and vegetables that are beneficial in diabetes

When diabetes is better to use sour or sweet-sour grades of berries and fruits. Salads of the last can be refilled with lemon juice and low-fat yogurt or saccharin. Also useful are fresh juices with no added sugar in them.

Blueberry - berry is indispensable for diabetics. Patients with the possibility it is recommended to use fresh and dried leaves to brew it. Blueberry has a hypoglycemic effect, and also improves the functioning of the pancreas.

The most useful vegetables for diabetics are the eggplant, cauliflower, peppers, radishes, turnips, cucumbers, tomatoes and spinach. Salads of them can use olive or canola oil, lemon juice, vinegar and salt.

The diet in diabetes must be included legumes. The bean contains fewer carbohydrates than many other products, but its energy value is quite high. It also contains substances that reduce the blood glucose level.

Before you start using any folk remedies treatment of diabetes, it is necessary to consult with the endocrinologist. The doctor will answer all questions relating to the effectiveness of the method chosen, and will monitor the condition of the patient. It is important to understand that the traditional remedies do not get rid of the disease, but with their help can improve the patient's condition.

Regardless of the means by which treated diabetes Diabetes - threatening and incurable disease , You need to regularly determine the content of plasma glucose. The only way to therapy will be most effective.

Thyroid cyst itself is not a threat to the body, except in certain cases. Thyroid cyst can develop after organ inflammation (thyroiditis), as a result of injury, lack of iodine and many other reasons. Treatment of thyroid cysts is carried out by increasing its size, rapid growth, festering cysts, or in the case of malignancy. Of course, not all of the thyroid gland cyst be treated, small dimensions of education (less than one centimeter in diameter) should be observed at the endocrinologist.

Treatment of thyroid cysts traditional methods

As noted above, the treatment of thyroid gland cysts is carried out at an increase of its dimensions to three centimeters or more, and in the event of complaints (compression of the adjacent organs, a sharp rise in temperature, malignancy cysts).

The main method in the treatment of thyroid cysts is their emptying using a thin needle. In the absence of festering malignancy or cysts (as determined by histological examination of the received content) at relapse is possible to conduct repeated puncture. Often in the process of emptying the cyst cavity is introduced in its special preparations - sclerosant (eg, ethanol), this process is called sclerotherapy. This law decay and promote scarring cysts of the thyroid gland. Operative intervention in the presence of the thyroid gland cyst is carried out in case of a rapid accumulation of fluid in it.

If the size of the cysts are small (less than three centimeters) and do not cause complaints from patients, their treatment is the appointment of pharmacological agents used in the treatment of diffuse nontoxic goiter. These include formulations of thyroid hormones, and iodine. If such treatment is necessary to control the level of TSH (every three to four weeks) and to conduct ultrasound of the thyroid gland (every three months). Furthermore, in the treatment of thyroid gland cysts iodine preparations should detect the presence of antibodies to thyroid The thyroid gland - is responsible for your hormones   (to avoid autoimmune thyroiditis).

In the case of festering cysts and thyroid abscess development Abscess - why it is so dangerous ulcers?   foreseeing its puncture and then determine the infectious agent, and sensitivity to antibiotics Antibiotics - whether they will help you in the foreseeable future? . Later appointed anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial drugs.

Surgical treatment of thyroid cysts is carried out under strict indications. These include:

• large size of the cyst of the thyroid gland;
• compartment syndrome nearby organs and blood vessels of the neck;
• frequent and rapid recurrence after puncture fluid removal;
• malignancy (malignancy) cyst.

As a rule, carried out the removal of thyroid lobe (gemistrumektomiya).

Traditional methods of treatment of thyroid cysts

Often, in the treatment of thyroid cysts used and popular methods:

• Saline compresses to the neck

To prepare the solution you need one tablespoon of salt dissolved in a pint of water. Then the obtained solution and moisten the towel wrap neck. Top should impose a dry towel and keep for two hours. The course of treatment is 20-30 days.

• Therapeutic clay

Healing clay (available at pharmacies) diluted to the consistency of thick cream and the mixture was put on a towel thickness of two centimeters. Neck wrap and hold for two hours. Wraps should be repeated twice a day.

• Shell of pine nuts

It is necessary to half a cup of pine nuts shell pour one liter of boiling water and simmer for half an hour. The resulting broth to drink during the day in small sips. The shell can be used two or three times.

• Tincture of Celandine Celandine - a means-tested over the centuries

Tightly fill up to half of chopped leaves and flowers of celandine liter jar. Then pour half a liter of raw materials of vodka and infuse for two weeks in a dark place. Take tincture should be in the morning, on an empty stomach, throwing it into 50 ml of water. Reception begins with two drops, every day increasing the dose of two drops. When the dose is equal to sixteen drops, continue to take the tincture for a month, without increasing the number of drops. Then you must make a ten-day break. Repeat the course several times, starting with the reception immediately sixteen drops.

Anna Sozinova