For thousand of years, healers in treatment for diabetes used herb or plant based natural therapies. Being a diabetic, you can still choose other options even if you are controlling your diet and weight, exercising or taking drugs or insulin. Certain herbs and other supplements are known to bring down blood sugar and protect the heart, nerves, eyes and kidneys. Alternative therapies like acupuncture or magnet therapy also reduces stress and relieves nerve pain. Many of these natural or alternative therapies are from India and other Asian countries, where healing traditions are less scientific than they are in the west. Herbal supplements in some other countries, tough growing in popularity, are not part of mainstream medicine mainly because they are not studied in as much detail as drugs are. As more research is done into the potential benefits of natural therapies, the balance between natural or alternative treatment and conventional treatment is beginning to shift. Bringing down high blood sugar level is the major goal of both herbal therapies as well as of drugs or insulin. Among the herbs that show the most promise of lowering blood sugar are stevia, gymnema or gurmar, fenugreek, bitter gourd, ginseng, aloe vera, bilberry, coriander, prickly pear and pterocarpus marsupium.

Some other natural remedies may not lower blood sugar but may help in reducing impact of certain complications of diabetes, like neuropathy. Supplements that help in negating neuropathy are alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) and gamma-linolenic acid (GLA). L-carnitine and bilberry are found to protect eyes from the weakening and bursting of blood vessels that occur with retinopathy. Garlic, OPC’s and L-carnitine reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and kidney damage. Most of these supplements now come in pill and capsule form and can be taken as the conventional medicines.

 In addition to all these, there are also other therapies for the treatment for diabetes like mind-body approaches and techniques linked with ideas about energy flow etc. Of all the therapies and supplements mentioned above, Stevia, extracted from Stevia rebaudiana leaves is found to be very beneficial in the treatment for diabetes. It is prepared as a Sugar free sweetener and is used as a component of diabetes recipes. A natural sweetener, it substitutes sugar. Stevia is currently available in the brand name Steviocal and it comes in sachets, each sachet weighing 1 gram each and equivalent to 2 teaspoons or 10 grams of sugar in sweetness. This sugar free sweetener from Stevia plant is also ideal for the health conscious grown-ups and for general home needs. Tea prepared from Stevia plant or Steviocal sugar free sweetener is found to give a pleasant aromatic flavor and most importantly acts as a digest ant for losing weight. This sugar free sweetener is without any toxic or side effects and being a natural sweetener can be consumed in any amounts in a day. All around the world there is a demand for natural sweeteners and Steviocal is the ideal solution. Years of research has brought this product and now people in over 40 countries vouch for Stevia plant’s sugar free sweetener. No doubt, it is the leader of the world, surging ahead of the competition.