What is diabetes?
Diabetes is considered to be a group of metabolic disorder
featured by high level blood sugar or hyperglycemia. It takes place due to
disordering insulin secretion in the pancreas. Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are
classified. Insulin dependent or non dependent are another type of
classification. Generally diabetes is the output of a derailed metabolism of
the body.
According to modern medicine and ayurveda it is the disorder
of the digestive system. According to the common theory, the carbo hydrate
breaks down to glucose in the digestive tract and enters the blood stream.
Glucose is the source of energy. The body observes glucose from the blood with
the help of insulin. The insulin acts like a master key that opens passage for
the glucose to get absorbed by the body. The insulin is secreted from the beta
cells of the pancreas. Lack of insulin in the blood circulation prevents
absorption of glucose by the body. That enhances the blood glucose level. This
is called hyperglycemia or high blood sugar or diabetes.
In hyperglycemia the glucose is stored in the blood
circulation instead of getting absorbed by the cells. Due to low concentration
of glucose inside the cells there is low concentration of energy too. That
makes the patients physically weak. In a healthy person when somebody takes
food the pancreas gets triggered to secret insulin. That insulin helps
introducing blood glucose into the human body cell. It gives a good health and
good energy.
Ayurveda concept of
diabetes
According to ayurveda, diabetes or Madhumeha comes under the
group of prameha. All the three doshes Vata, Pitta and kapha are involved in
the pathogenesis of prameha. According to ayurveda diabetes takes place due to
very low density kapha and meda dhatu. It may be compared with very low density
lipid (VLDL). The type one diabetes can be compared with madhumeha with dhatu
ksya. Type two diabetes can be compared with abarana janya madhumeha.
Ayurveda says that diabetes is caused due to high calorie
diet like sweets, new rice, wine, ghee, no work, day sleep, stress etc.
Ayurveda suggests some guidelines that will helps preventing
ayurveda even following that guideline will help preventing complication of
diabetes and keeping a diabetes patient physically and mentally fit.
Follow the Dina Charya
Dina charya teaches us to get up early in the morning after
the food taken in the previous evening gets digested that means the last dinner
should have been very light so that it could get digested till the morning.
After getting up from bed somebody should go for eye flushing
with water, defecation, brushing the teeth, ayurveda oil massage, exercise,
ayurvedic bath followed by a breakfast depending upon the season.
Ayurveda suggests professions and professional ethics,
sociability, humanity are the different way to keep mind blissful. A blissful
mind secrets happy hormone that helps pancreas secret insulin in a controlled
way.
Three times food
Three times food in day is good to lead a domestic life. In
Ayurveda it is told that all the diseases take place due to disturbance in the
digestive system. The stomach gets upset if it is disturbed frequently. The
stomach gets disturbed if we take food or drink (excluding natural water)
frequently. Whenever a food or drink enters the digestive system, the pancreas
gets triggered to secret insulin. The frequent trigger to the pancreas leads to
its dysfunction that leads to non secretion of insulin. That lack of insulin in
the blood leads to diabetes that is why food, three times a day, everyday at
the same time can keep diabetes away.
Active round the day
A healthy person or a diabetes patient must maintain an
active life style round the day. It is observed, many people work hard in the
park or the gym during the morning. After that either they sit long on a chair
or lay on the bed during the day time. Here the benefits for diabetes
management is very much limited. An active life style on regular basis will
give a clear idea about the calorie input and output ratio. It makes easy for
the patient and doctor to fix a dose of food and medicine.
A Balanced Dish
Old boiled rice, husk flour from old wheat in a very little
amount will be helpful in a diet. The rest of the diet should be compensated
with roughage and fibre and a little bit vegetable protein. Dalma is a very
popular dish in Odisha, the east coast of India. It contains a little bit green
gram, water, Salt, some digestive spice and numbers of green vegetables. I
believe this is the best dish in the world for a diabetes patient.
Early to Bed
After we sleep down the metabolism inside the body gets slow
down. That creates a number of metabolism disorder especially diabetes mellitus
or hyperglycemia or high blood sugar. That is why the dinner should be around 7
p.m followed by a sleep after two hours.
Diabetes ayurvedic treatment is time
tasted solution for diabetes patient, their disease and diabetes complication.
