DIABETES

Diabetes is a disease of profuse urination in Ayurveda. Not specifically a urinary tract disorder, it is a dysfunction of the water system and a water metabolism imbalance. Twenty such diseases are listed according to the three humors that cause them, but diabetes as we commonly know it, relates mainly to wo types, diabetes insipidus and diabetes mellitus.

Diabetes is a servere disease, difficult to treat and with many complications; Natural remedies cannot often cure it, particularly that of junvenileo nset, but they can alleviate many of its side effects and improve the quality of life and energy. For juvenile onset and once the pancreas function is tottaly lost, the condition is generally not reversible.

Diabetes manifests itself as excess thirst and excess urination. Initially, it is primarily a Kapha (water) disease involved with obesity and excess consumption of sweet, kaphogenic foods. kapha increases in the stomach due to low pancreas function, then enters the other tissues, causing frequency or turbidity of urination.

Long-term diabetes involves thirst and wasting away of tissues and is or becomes primarily a Vata (air) disease. This is true in diabetes mellitus, the most common type of diabetes. Vata accumulates in the large intestine and travels to the pancereas, deranging pancreas function.

Pitta (fire) can also causes diabetes. It accumulates in the small intestine, then travels to the liver and pancreas upsetting their functions.

Wrong diet is often a causative factor in diabetes, with excessive consumption of sugar, sweets dairy products, alcohol, fat and breads. It can be caused by obesity, excessive sex, sleep in the day time, lack of exercise, worry, stress and anxiety, or it may be herediatary. Psychologically, diabetes is a disease of desire, thirst and lack of contentment in Life.