PLANT INSULIN- INDIAN KINO (DIAKINO

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PLANT INSULIN-  INDIAN KINO (DIAKINO)

Diabetes is a common endocrine disorder, affecting over 100 million people worldwide. The World Health Organization predicts that this number may increase fivefold in the near future. Complications are the major cause of diabetic morbidity and mortality. In India, diabetes affects 1– 5% of the population. Well-known they're from as early as 700 – 200 BCE, its two types are a genetically based disorder and one resulting from "dietary indiscretion."
Diabetes affects several physical processes and organs. The most common conventional treatment for diabetes is insulin, which has prominent side effects. Neither insulin nor other modern pharmaceuticals has been shown to modify the course of diabetic complications. In conventional treatment, diabetes is identified as "insulin dependent diabetes mellitus" (IDDM) or "non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus" (NIDDM).
 
The modern management of diabetes in spite of many advances still remains unsatisfactory. Drug intolerance, hypersensitivity and resistance to insulin etc. makes it all the more important to search for safe, effective and cheaper remedies.
 
Some such remedies are available from the Indian system of Medicine "Ayurveda". In recent years, the use of herbs traditionally employed in Ayurveda has yielded positive scientific results. Worldwide, there is an increasing interest in the use of herbs/plants as most of the modern drugs are costly and tagged with serious side effects. One such highly effective natural hypoglycemic agent is Indian Kino (Pterocarpus Marsupium).
 
Pterocarpus marsupium
A potent flavonoid in this tree has been shown to help regenerate beta cells in the pancreas as well. In a study conducted in India, Pterocarpus helped balance blood sugar and contributed to an increase in beta cell count in laboratory-animals(Ahmad1991).

Scientists have demonstrated similar effects of Pterocarpus in people. For example, researchers in India once studied the effects of this herb in 97 individuals with blood sugar problems and were amazed to find that it helped control blood sugar levels in 69% of them (Seshiah 1998).

Pterocarpus marsupium (also known as Indian Kino, in English) is a large deciduous tree. Commonly grows in central, western, and southern parts of India and Sri Lanka. Pterocarpus marsupium demonstrates to reduce the glucose absorption from the gastrointestinal tract, and improve insulin and pro-insulin levels. It also effective in beta cell regeneration, No other drug or natural agent has been shown to generate this activity.
The heartwood is astringent, bitter acrid, anti inflammatory, anthelmintic, anodyne. Beside diabetes, it is also good for elephantiasis, leucoderma, diarrhoea, dysentery, rectalgia, cough and greyness of hair
 
Pterocarpus marsupium has demonstrated impressive blood glucose lowering activity. These effects have been reproduced in numerous animal and human trials for over half a century. The majority of the animal studies use several different types of animals that have been make diabetic. In all of these studies Pterocarpus marsupium was able to reverse the damage to the beta cells and actually repopulate the islets.
Another property displayed by Pterocarpus marsupium is insulin like activity. This is completely separate from the stimulation of insulin production from the repair of beta cells. Pterocarpus marsupium may lower blood sugar through an unrelated pathway of that of insulin making it useful in the treatment of both types of diabetics. All of these effects were accomplished without any type of adverse reactions or toxicity.
 
Methods of preparing aqueous infusion

Water is kept overnight in wooden tumblers made of the heartwood of the tree. Alternatively, a piece of the heartwood of the tree of standard dimensions is placed in the glass or plastic tumbler at night; the tumbler is filled with water and covered for protection against night insects; and the water with the wood in it, is kept till the morning. The water changes color to a "rainbow effect" immediately on contact with the wood, and within a few hours changes gradually to a brown color with a light blue tint. The water extract is slightly bitter to the taste. It is drunk half an hour before breakfast.
In cases of higher levels of blood sugar (or obesity or joint pain)use twice a day , the same procedure as above is followed after the aqueous infusion bas been drunk in the morning. The water with the same piece of wood it is kept till the evening and drunk half an hour after dinner.

TIMES OF INDIA –NEWS NETWORK-MUMBAI
KALPANA JAIN -FRIDAY OCT 8

First the good news - even those diabetics who do not respond to conventional drugs have hope. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has clearly established that a herbal product, Vijaysar(Indian Kino), obtained from the bark of a tree, helps control blood glucose levels.
 And now the bad news. The Research, which would have benefited scores of diabetic patients, has remained confined to scientific discussions.
 After years of collecting substantial evidence, the benefits of the research have not reached patients, as sufficient efforts have not been made to push the herbal product into the market. For India and other countries, this could have been a promising herbal product, with enough scientific backing. India has the largest number of diabetics in the world - an estimated 40 million, and is faced with the world's largest diabetes epidemic. Changes in lifestyle at putting many more at risk.
 
 Vijaysar, which is extracted from the plant Pterocarpus mrsupium, has shown positive results in the treatment of diabetes in several trials conducted by the ICMR at centers spread over reputed medical colleges across the country. All the results have encouraging. The benefits seemed to be all the more significant in the case of patients who did not respond to convenional diabetes drugs. There were no side effects.
 
 In trying to get tis knowledge out into the public domain two young scientists lost their lives. The duo, while scouring forests fo the bark of the tree, were attacked by mosquitoes and died after contracting cerebral malaria.
 Unfortunately, the drug still remains out of bounds for mot suffering diabetics. Scientists at ICMR offer several reasons for this, chief among them being that they are not equipped to take such research to its a logical conclusion. This seems to be a glaring gap in the present system, despite an increased focus on traditional medicines and their validation in recent years.

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