Sea-buckthorn with diabetes mellitus

Sea-buckthorn is considered one of the leaders in the content of vitamin C and a very useful plant, the medicinal properties of which are recognized even by traditional medicine. 

Caloric content of sea buckthorn is relatively low (of the order of 52 kcal), and the glycemic index is only 30 units. Contained in fruits of sugar (and there are only about 5 g per 100 g of product) are mainly fructose, which is only beneficial for diabetics.

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Benefits

The acid orange berries of the plant contain in sufficient quantities vitamins A, E, B, including biotin, as well as microelements useful for diabetes and unsaturated fatty acids (vitamin F). The latter is responsible for the metabolic processes in the skin, preventing all kinds of dermatological diseases and accelerating the process of tissue regeneration with damage to the integrity of the skin. This is very important if you consider that with diabetes there is a tendency to the formation of wounds on the body, which subsequently very long and hard heal.

The use of berries helps to control the metabolism in the skin from the inside, and the oil from the bones of the sea-buckthorn can be used externally as an excellent wound-healing agent.

Solar berries reduce pain, help combat inflammation, reduce blood viscosity and prevent blood clots, improve the functioning of the vegetative nervous and endocrine system, and normalize the metabolism in the body. Juice from berries to that possesses choleretic action, stimulates secretory function of the digestive organs and intestinal motility, positively influences the work of the liver and the state of blood vessels.

With diabetes, sea buckthorn can be eaten both fresh and dried, adding to teas and compotes. Oil is used to treat wounds and trophic ulcers in pure form or in combination with birch tar, propolis, hydrogen peroxide. From fresh fruits, you can prepare a useful jam, you need to eat no more than 5 tbsp. L. Per day, provided that it is made with the use of sugar substitutes, and not sugar. It will be a useful vitamin dessert, which is useful for diabetics due to the fact that their body loses most of the nutrients daily.

As you can see, local gifts of nature and popular berries, supplied to us from the countries of the near abroad, prove to be not only quite safe, but also very useful in such a serious metabolic disease as diabetes. Berries in diabetes help saturate the body with useful substances, which in turn will enhance immunity, control blood pressure and heart function, remove toxins from the body, adjust blood glucose level, etc., preventing all sorts of complications.

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Contraindications

Seabuckthorn berries taste strong acid, so it is not surprising that fresh fruits and juice from them can not be used with high gastric acidity, peptic ulcer, gastritis and other pathologies of the digestive tract, in which the product will exert an additional irritant effect on the mucosa, only aggravating the course of the disease. Although sea buckthorn oil is even used for therapeutic purposes inside with such diseases, for example, for the treatment of stomach ulcers and erosive gastritis.

The juice of sea-buckthorn, contained in the fruits of the plant, increases the acidity of urine, which is dangerous for urolithiasis. Caution in the use of fresh berries and compounds on their basis must be observed in pancreatitis, liver and gallbladder diseases, especially in the acute stage, with diarrhea. In this case, a specialist consultation is necessary.

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