Homeopathic Medicinal Products and Importance in Diabetes

Abstract

Background: Diabetes is a condition that happens when your blood sugar (glucose) is too high. It develops when your pancreas doesn’t make enough insulin or any at all, or when your body isn’t responding to the effects of insulin properly. Diabetes affects people of all ages. Most forms of diabetes are chronic (lifelong), and all forms are manageable with medications and/or lifestyle changes. So many health problems can develop in diabetic people, like heart diseases, kidney diseases, eye problems, etc. Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease. A qualified homeopathic doctor needs to be consulted for the selection of the right medicine and its potency. Objective: There are many allopathic medicines available for the treatment of diabetes, but they have lots of side effects. The main objective of this study is to find out the appropriate homeopathic medicines for the treatment of diabetes. Methods: A literature search was conducted on the databases, namely Science Direct and PubMed, with the help of different keywords such as "homeopathic medicine treatment of diabetes." The search was customized by applying the appropriate filters so as to get the most relevant articles to meet the objective of this review article. Result: There are different research and review papers based on the homeopathic medicine treatment of diabetes and the activity of new drug molecules. Conclusion: On the basis of our study, we found that some treatments approach homeopathic medicines for the treatment of diabetes and suggested that if we used homeopathic medicine to reduce the side effects of allopathic medicines.