“Herbs in Himalayas can control Type 2 diabetes”

London: A Belfast-based scientist has claimed that a herb found in the Himalayan region could be effective in controlling Type 2 diabetes.
Dr. Yasser Abdel-Wahab, a senior lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Ulster, and his team discovered that the roots of a cucumber-like vegetable — a herb found in the forests of India — and extracts from the bark of a Himalayan plant, all showed positive results in test cases.
Stimulate Insulin production Dr. Abdel-Wahab said that following early laboratory work carried out on the Northern Ireland-based campus, researchers discovered the bark of Swertia chirayita, a plant traditionally grown in the Himalayas and also known as chirette, indicated that some compounds extracted from the bark appeared to stimulate insulin production and improve its action.
More study “Natural anti-diabetic drug discovery is a key area of research that is attracting a lot of interest.
“More research is needed to establish definitively how and if our findings could be translated into new therapeutic agents for treatments for people with Type 2 diabetes, but we are hopeful that this will one day be the case,” Dr. Abdel-Wahab told a conference in Glasgow.
Several teams of scientists across the United Kingdom have been investigating a range of weird and wonderful complementary therapies that have the potential to help treat Type 2 diabetes.