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Berries of velvet tree with diabetes mellitus
Last reviewed: 16.12.2018
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Alternative healers for therapeutic purposes in diabetes mellitus use and berries of velvet wood. Velvet (it is the Amur or Amur cork velvet) is a tall plant, a long-liver, common in the Far East, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, which can also be found in China, Japan, and Korea.
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Benefits
Like many other berries, the fruits of Amur velvet are high in vitamin C, which is simply necessary for the body to fight various diseases. But even if you do not dwell on the content of vitamins, trace elements, coumarins, essential oils and other useful components in berries, the fact that they contain the berberine alkaloid speaks in favor of the fact that these fruits, like the berries of mahonia, will provide therapeutic action in diabetes mellitus.
Fruits, leaves, velvet tree bark have pronounced healing properties. Drugs prepared on their basis are famous for their antimicrobial, anti-hypertensive, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, anti-cancer and many other actions. But in the treatment of diabetes mellitus, mostly round black berries of Amur velvet are used, which have a specific smell and bitter taste.
Diabetics and people with high blood pressure to eat fresh or dried berries are recommended in the morning for half an hour before breakfast, chewing for several minutes. The daily dose is 2-3 berries, which, despite the bitter taste, can not be washed down with any liquid.
The course of treatment with berries of velvet tree lasts six months, after which the sugar level should stabilize. After another half a year, a preventive intake of fruits was recommended for 1 berry a day for 3 months.
Perhaps the daily consumption of bitter Amur velvet berries will not give diabetics much pleasure, but this is a real chance to normalize blood sugar level and refuse to take medications or significantly reduce their dosage and negative impact on the body.
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Contraindications
The fruits of a velvet tree can hardly be called a delicacy. Black berries with a very peculiar aroma in diabetics are used for medicinal purposes. It is important to remember that people with a predisposition to allergies, ingesting more than five berries can cause the development of allergic reactions.
In the composition of berries and other parts of the plant, besides the useful substances, there are also quite toxic substances, so the abuse of drugs on their basis is unlikely to improve the result of treatment, but it can easily cause poisoning. Not for nothing because one of the requirements for safe treatment is the rejection of smoking, drinking alcohol, coffee drinks, teas of high fortress.
Treatment with fruits of Amur velvet is suitable for adult patients, but to reduce the level of sugar in children and pregnant women need to look for other means.