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Homeopathy for Diabetes Mellitus

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Written by Dr. Manisha Bhatia

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease involving abnormalities in the body’s ability to use sugar. The symptoms listed against each medicine may not be directly related to this disease because in homeopathy general symptoms and constitutional indications are also taken into account for selecting a homeopathic remedy. None of these homeopathic medicines for diabetes mellitus should be taken without professional advice.

Are you looking for a homeopathic cure for Diabetes mellitus? This article discusses the homeopathy treatment of Diabetes mellitus along with the best homeopathic medicine for Diabetes mellitus treatment.

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease involving abnormalities in the body’s ability to use sugar.

It is a clinical syndrome of hyper-glycaemia due to absolute or relative deficiency of insulin.

Diabetes is characterized by either:

An inability of the pancreas to produce insulin (type 1 or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus) or an inability of insulin to exert its normal physiological actions (type 2 or non-insulin dependent diabetes).

Diabetes is often silent and may exist for many years without the individual’s noticing it.
Effects certain “target tissues,” that is, tissues that are vulnerable to the damaging effects of chronically high blood sugar levels. These target tissues are the eye, the kidney, the nerves and the large blood vessels, such as in the heart.

Both hereditary and environmental factors are responsible for its development and progression.

Homeopathic Treatment of Diabetes

homeopathy remedies for diabetes treatment

Homeopathy treats the person as a whole. It means that homeopathic treatment focuses on the patient as a person, as well as his pathological condition. The homeopathic medicines for diabetes mellitus are selected after a full individualizing examination and case-analysis, which includes the medical history of the patient, physical and mental constitution etc.

A miasmatic tendency (predisposition/susceptibility) is also often taken into account for the treatment of chronic conditions. The homeopathic remedies for diabetes mellitus given below indicate the therapeutic affinity but this is not a complete and definite guide to the treatment of this condition.

The symptoms listed against each medicine may not be directly related to this disease because in homeopathy general symptoms and constitutional indications are also taken into account for selecting a homeopathic remedy for diabetes mellitus. To study any of the following remedies in more detail, please visit our Materia Medica section. None of these homeopathic medicines for diabetes mellitus should be taken without professional advice.

Acetic acid

  • It is an excellent medicine for diabetes insipidus; complaints with intense thirst; great prostration and emaciation; skin dry, pale and waxy; dropsy with thirst; oedema of legs and feet.

Arsenic album

  • Persistent unquenchable thirst, desire to drink water in small quantities and short interval, dry mouth; itching of the whole body.

Argentum nitricum

  • Frequent and profuse urination; may be passed unconsciously, day and night, dribbling of urine, urine may or may not contain sugar.

Argentum met

  • Fetid taste in mouth; great weakness and emaciation; profuse turbid sweetish urine

Belladonna

  • Homeopathic medicine for diabetes mellitus having urine more than patient drinks; bladder region is sensitive to motion and jar; nocturnal enuresis; dry mouth, lips, and throat with thirst; sweat absent; urine pale, watery, frequent, retained with difficulty.

Bryonia

  • Should not be neglected in this disease.bryonia alba homeopathic medicine for diabetes
  • No remedy has dryness of the lips as a symptom of hepatic disorder more marked than Bryonia, and this is often one of the first symptoms of diabetes.
  • There is a persistent bitter taste, the patient is languid, morose and dispirited, thirst may not be extreme nor the appetite voracious, the patient may lose strength through inability to eat.

Calcarea carb

  • Copious, frequent urine, which is sour and odourless or sour or pungent, great thirst for cold drinks; great tendency to take cold.

Cannabis indica

  • Homeopathic medicine for diabetes mellitus having profuse urination; has to wait for sometime before urine flows, and must force out the last drops with hands; sensation as if drops were falling from the heart; sensation as if anus and a part of urethra were filled up by a hard round ball; mouth and throat dry with intense thirst.

Causticum

  • Urine involuntary when coughing, sneezing, and blowing the nose; thirst for cold water and beer, usually with an aversion to drink; polyuria.

Lactic acid

  • An exceedingly good remedy in the gastrohepatic variety of diabetes and good results often follow its use. It has a fine clinical record.
  • The symptoms are: urinates copiously and freely, urine light yellow and saccharine, thirst, nausea, debility, voracious appetite and costive bowels.
  • Dry skin, dry tongue, gastralgia.

Insulin

  • Long before the discovery of Insulin Dr Pierre Jousset of Paris prepared a pancreatic juice on a glycerine basis which he administered to diabetic patients in doses of 10 or 20 drops a day in the water and had results sufficiently good to consider pancreatic juice, orally-administered, as a remedy of great value in diabetes.
  • Cartier, his practical successor, praised it insisted on smaller doses given by mouth as larger doses and hypodermic injections of it had no effect in ordinary diabetes. Baker advises the homoeopathic strengths of Insulin 3d to 30th and reports happy results therefrom.
  • Great care must be taken not to overdose.
  • Boericke says that it maintains the blood sugar at a normal level and the urine remains free of sugar. Epileptic convulsions and mental derangements have been produced by hypodermic use of this hormone.

Helonias

  • Profuse, clear, light-coloured urine; contains amorphous phosphate, with low specific gravity; bitter taste in mouth with dry tongue and fauces; feeling of weakness and weight in renal region; numbness of feet.
  • It is an excellent remedy for both diabetes mellitus and insipidus where complaints are associated with great, thirst, melancholy and restlessness.

Merc sol

  • Persistent unquenchable thirst, though the mouth and tongue are moist and salivated.
  • Desire for sweets. Excessive perspiration.

Natrum mur

  • Unquenchable thirst with polyuria; skin cold; loss of appetite; sleep disturbed or lost; urine escapes involuntarily when urinate.
  • Passes urine very frequently almost every hour at night.

Phosphoric acid

  • Homeopathic medicine for diabetes mellitus having debility from loss of vital fluids; urination frequent and profuse; intense thirst with dryness of mouth and throat.
  • Passes urine several times at night only; urine thick like milk, or lime water with whitish sediments, with stringy bloody lumps, the skin of face feels tense as if white of egg.
  • Diabetes of nervous patients; excellent remedy for stress-induced diabetes; physical soreness due to grief.
  • Debility from loss of animal fluids; dryness of mouth and throat with frequent micturition and intense thirst.
  • Abundant sugar in urine; extreme prostration; pale, waxy skin; gangrenous ulcer; chyluria or thick milk-like urine.
  • Bad effects from grief, anguish, and disappointed love.

Phosphorous

  • Useful in diabetes and pancreatic diseases.
  • Sudden and extreme dryness of the mouth and marked physical restlessness are also guiding symptoms to this remedy, especially with a dark watery stool.
  • P.Jousset reports positive success where the mouth is dry; frequent, abundant urination and tendency to skin eruption.

Kali carb

  • Pressure in the bladder long before the patient passes urine; frequent urination day night.

Picric acid

  • Copious urination, copious discharge of urine; feet cold, chilly, cannot get warm; great thirst for cold water; eyes feel dry as if full of dry sand; lack of willpower to do anything.
  • Great sexual desire with emissions; urine contains sugar and albumin.

Syzygium jambolinum

  • One of the best remedies for blood sugar, the patient passes urine in large quantities; great thirst. Often mother tincture is used.

Squilla maritima

  • Urine is passed several times day and night; much urging to urinate, the involuntary spurting of urine while coughing or sneezing.

Terebinthina

  • Albuminuria; frequent urination; foul breath; hunger and thirst with debility; tongue dry and red; dullness of mind.
  • Burning of stomach and hypochondria; lips cracked and bleeding; sunken features.

Uranium nitricum

  • This remedy is praised in diabetes originating in dyspepsia. It has polyuria, polydypsia, dryness of the mouth and skin. It causes sugar in the urine.
  • No remedy gives such universally good results; it lessens the sugar and quantity of the urine.
  • It is when the disease is due to assimilative derangements that Uranium is the remedy, and symptoms such as defective digestion, languor, debility and much sugar in the urine, enormous appetite and thirst, yet the patient continues to emaciate.

What is Insulin?

Insulin is a hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreas.

It regulates the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and protein. Insulin maintains blood glucose level either by increased transportation of glucose from the blood and transport into the liver, fat and skeletal muscle cells or inhibiting production and secretion of glucose by the liver into the blood.

Normal glucose and fat metabolism

The brain totally depends on glucose for energy because the blood-brain barrier is impermeable to free fatty acids (FFAs).

After ingestion of a carbohydrate meal, insulin, the primary regulator of glucose metabolism, is secreted from pancreatic β cells in response to a rise in blood glucose.

This rise of blood glucose suppresses liver glucose production, results in net liver glucose uptake and stimulates glucose uptake in skeletal muscle.

Insulin is also the major regulator of fatty acid metabolism. High insulin levels after meals promote triglyceride accumulation, while in the fasting state, low insulin levels permit lipolysis and the release of free fatty acids and glycerol, which can be oxidised by many tissues.

Types of Diabetes Mellitus

  • Immune-mediated (Type 1 diabetes)
  • Insulin resistance (Type 2 diabetes)
  • Gestational Diabetes
  • Others (environment, genetic defects, infections, and certain drugs).

What is type-1 diabetes?

Type-1 diabetes is sometimes called juvenile diabetes, or insulin-dependent diabetes. It means that your body can’t make insulin. Insulin helps your body turn the sugar from the food you eat into a source of energy. Type 1 occurs more frequently in children and young adults, but accounts for only 5-10% of the total diabetes cases nationwide.

What happens in Type-1 diabetes Mellitus-

Insulin producing β-cells of the pancreas are attacked by the antibodies. Auto-immune diseases are the kind of disease in which the body’s immune system produces antibodies against the body’s own tissue considering those as a foreign body. These antibodies attack and destroy the body tissue. This same process is seen in type-1 diabetes mellitus where β-cells of the pancreas are attacked by the antibodies result in a decreased level of insulin hormone ultimately increased blood sugar level.

Patients with type 1 diabetes present when adequate insulin secretion can no longer be sustained. High glucose levels may be toxic to the remaining β cells, so that profound insulin deficiency rapidly occur. Hyperglycaemia leads to glycosuria (Glucose in urine) and dehydration, which in turn induces secondary hyperaldosteronism.

Unrestrained breakdown of fat and protein results in weight loss, increased gluconeogenesis and ketogenesis. When the generation of ketone bodies exceeds their metabolism, ketoacidosis results. Secondary hyperaldosteronism encourages urinary loss of K+. Thus patients usually present with a short history of hyperglycaemic symptoms (thirst, polyuria, fatigue and infections) and weight loss, and may have developed ketoacidosis.

What is type-2 diabetes?

Type-2 diabetes results the two main pathological defects include impaired insulin secretion through a dysfunction of the pancreatic β-cell, and impaired insulin action through insulin resistance. This results in an imbalance in glucose metabolism.

Impaired secretion results in an inadequate amount of insulin to lower down blood glucose levels and insulin resistance to the cells results in decreased uptake of glucose by liver, muscles cells etc and increase the release of glucose from the liver into the blood.

Hyperglycaemia develops slowly, so that osmotic symptoms (polyuria and polydipsia) are usually mild. Thus, patients are often asymptomatic but usually present with a long history (typically many months) of fatigue, with or without osmotic symptoms. In some patients, presentation is late and pancreatic β-cell function has declined to the point where there is profound insulin deficiency. These patients may present with weight loss, although ketoacidosis remains uncommon.

For many persons with Type-2 diabetes, daily insulin supplementation is not required. Diabetes is managed by making moderate changes in diet and exercise.

Diabetes Symptoms

  • Polyuria – increase in the frequency of urination.
  • Polyphagia – increase in appetite, the patient takes large meals.
  • Polydipsia – excessive thirst.
  • Weight loss – due to defective metabolism
  • Weakness – this is a very common complaint in diabetes
  • Drowsiness – A condition in which a person feels sleepiness and tiredness or fatigue.
  • Other symptoms – include blurring of vision (diabetic retinopathy), pruritus vulva (itching) in females, tingling and numbness of hands and foot (diabetic neuropathy), loss of libido or erectile dysfunction, skin ulcers, dehydration, muscular cramps, irritability, fatigue, headache, urinary tract infections, recurring boils etc.

There are some major complications of diabetes which involve diabetic ketoacidosis, diabetic foot, diabetes retinopathy; diabetic neuropathy.

Causes of Type 1 Diabetes

TYPE 1 DIABETES can be caused due to various causes which include:

  • Genetic susceptibility
  • Environmental factors like certain strains of viruses can cause diabetes
  • Exposure to cow’s milk or milk products in the early stage of life can induce diabetes
  • Insulitis
  • Destruction of beta cells etc.

Signs and Symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes

  • diabetes symptoms and treatmentExcessive thirst
  • Frequent urination
  • Weakness and fatigue
  • Weight loss
  • Itching around the genitals
  • Impaired or blurred vision

Cause of Type 2 Diabetes

There may be appropriate production of insulin by the pancreas but the body is unable to utilize it effectively results in insulin resistance, insulin production decreases and glucose builds up in the blood.

Risk factors of type 2 diabetes

  • Family history of diabetes
  • Increased weight
  • Inactivity
  • Hypertension
  • Pregnancy
  • Metabolic disturbances
  • Imbalanced cholesterol and triglyceride levels
  • Polycystic ovarian disease

Signs and Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes

  • Excessive thirst
  • Fatigue
  • General ill feeling
  • Frequent urination
  • Blurredness of vision
  • Patient becomes prone to various infections
  • Slow healing of damaged tissues

Investigation for Diabetes Mellitus

Urine testing

Glucose

Urine dipsticks are used to screen for diabetes. Testing should ideally use urine passed 1–2 hrs after a meal since this will maximize sensitivity. Glycosuria always warrants further assessment by blood testing; however, glycosuria can be due to a low renal threshold.

This is a benign condition unrelated to diabetes, common during pregnancy and in young people. Another disadvantage is that some drugs (such as β-lactam antibiotics, levodopa and salicylates) may interfere with urine glucose tests.

Ketones

Ketonuria may be found in normal people who have been fasting, exercising or vomiting repeatedly, or those on a high-fat, low carbohydrate diet. Ketonuria is therefore not pathognomonic of diabetes but, if it is associated with glycosuria, diabetes is highly likely. In diabetic ketoacidosis, ketones can also be detected in plasma using test sticks.

Protein

Standard dipstick testing will detect urinary albumin > 300 mg/L but smaller amounts (microalbuminuria) require specific sticks or laboratory urinalysis.

Blood Testing

Glucose

Laboratory blood glucose testing is cheap and highly reliable.

Glycated haemoglobin

Glycated haemoglobin (Hb) provides an accurate and objective measure of glycaemic control over a period of weeks to months.

The non-enzymatic covalent attachment of glucose to Hb (glycation) increases the amount in the HbA1c fraction relative to non-glycated adult Hb (HbA0). The rate of formation of HbA1c is directly proportional to the blood glucose concentration; a rise of 1% in HbA1c corresponds to an increase of 2 mmol/L (36 mg/dL) in blood glucose.

HbA1c concentration reflects blood glucose over the erythrocyte lifespan (120 days); it is most sensitive to glycaemic control in the past month.

Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus

WHo recommended the following criteria for diagnosis of diabetes Mellitus

Condition 2 hour glucose Fasting glucose HbA1c
Unit mmol/l(mg/dl) mmol/l(mg/dl) mmol/mol DCCT %
Normal <7.8 (<140) <6.1 (<110) <42 <6.0
Impaired fasting glycaemia <7.8 (<140) ≥6.1(≥110) & <7.0(<126) 42-46 6.0–6.4
Impaired glucose tolerance ≥7.8 (≥140) <7.0 (<126) 42-46 6.0–6.4
Diabetes mellitus ≥11.1 (≥200) ≥7.0 (≥126) ≥48 ≥6.5

Conventional treatment for Diabetes Mellitus

Following Medicines are used for diabetes along with dietary restrictions.

Agents used in diabetic therapy include the following:

  • Biguanides
  • Sulfonylureas
  • Meglitinide derivatives
  • Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors
  • Thiazolidinediones (TZDs)
  • Glucagonlike peptide–1 (GLP-1) agonists
  • Dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-4) Inhibitors
  • Selective sodium-glucose transporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors
  • Insulins
  • Amylinomimetics
  • Bile acid sequestrants
  • Dopamine agonists

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Diabetes Mellitus Cases Cured with Homeopathic Medicine

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Homeopathic Cure of Patient with Diabetes Type 1 – by Seyedaghanoor Sadeghi

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A Case of Non Healing Wound with Diabetes Mellitus – by Satyakaam Trigunait

A Case of Diabetes Mellitus in a 55 Year Old Man – Phosphoric Acid – by S.K.Banerjea

About the author

Dr. Manisha Bhatia

BHMS, M.D. (Hom), CICH (Greece)
Dr. (Mrs) Manisha Bhatia is a leading homeopathy doctor working in Jaipur, India. She has studied with Prof. George Vithoulkas at the International Academy of Classical Homeopathy. She is the Director of Asha Homeopathy Medical Center, Jaipur's leading clinic for homeopathy treatment and has been practicing since 2004.

She writes for Hpathy.com about homeopathic medicines and their therapeutic indications and homeopathy treatment in various diseases. She is also Associate Professor, HoD and PG Guide at S.K. Homeopathy Medical College. To consult her online, - visit Dr. Bhatia's website.

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