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According to the website of American Diabetes
Association Type 2 diabetes is the
most common form of diabetes. In type 2
diabetes, either the body does not produce
enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin.
It is considered as incurable diseases and
around the world research works and studies are
in progress to develop new formulations. The
research on herbal treatment of Diabetes is also
in progress. In India the ancient
literatures related to different systems of
medicine describes much about Diabetes. These
literatures are having information about
hundreds of herbs and herbal combinations used
internally as well as externally in treatment of
Diabetes. The licensed practitioners are
practicing this knowledge in day today life.
Beside these practitioners, there are thousands
of Traditional Healers in dense forests, far
from modern societies, are giving their
services. They are also practicing the
traditional knowledge but major part of their
knowledge and practicing methods are not
available in published literatures. These
Healers use herbs as well as medicinal insects,
spiders, mites, animal parts, medicinal mushroom
etc. in treatment of different diseases. They
are aware of unique diagnosis methods and
different ways of healing. The modern
researchers are trying to document their
knowledge. The present report
titled ‘Traditional medicinal knowledge about
herbs and herbal combinations used in treatment
of Type II Diabetes in India
with special reference to Chhattisgarh’ is an
effort to document this traditional knowledge.
It is result of on-going effort since 1994 and
earlier, to meet and interact with these Healers
from different parts of India
particularly from Chhattisgarh. In
present report efforts has been made to present
the knowledge in its original form as noted
during surveys. It contains over 100, 000 weekly
schedules prepared by the Traditional Healers of
different fields of expertise. These weekly
schedules describe morning, noon and evening
doses, and both internally and externally used
medicines, in detail. Many Healers divide a day
in 24 parts or more when they use medicines and
prepare detailed schedules, specially in
advanced stage of diseases. Such schedules have
also been added in this report. Based on
interactions with the Healers one month to two
years long schedules are prepared and presented
in this report. Schedules suggested by Healers
were shown to other Healers and their comments
were noted. These comments were further
presented in form of modified schedules. This
novel method of documentation generated new
information and in gist this reports can be
considered as collective knowledge of the
Traditional Healers and associated components of
India.
While preparing this report over 6000
Traditional Healers, herb collectors, herb
traders, farmers, senior natives, herb vendors
etc. were interacted. Author has added a lot
from his traditional medicinal knowledge
gathered from vast surveys and from his
forefathers as family tradition.
Special treatments are important
part of this report. There are hundreds of
Special treatments mentioned in this report. In
order to increase the efficacy of herbs and
herbal combinations the Healers suggest patients
to adopt different special methods like to take
advantage of shades of old trees, tree groups
and tree complexes. They are also suggested to
crush different herbs and combinations through
bare sole and palm. Bare Foot Crushing and
Bare Foot Walking treatments are parts of this
report. Besides these uses of herbal bed, herbal
glasses, herbal mala etc. have also been
mentioned. The report is having information
about over 3000 herbs, insects, spiders, mites
etc. suggested by the Healers in different
combinations. Most of the information mentioned
in this reports has yet not been reported in
reference literatures. Through this report it is
coming in front of world community for the first
time.
Over 20,000 pictures are
important feature of this report. Selection of
herbs, its Allelopathic treatment in order to
enrich it with medicinal properties before
harvest, suitable time of collection etc. have
been described in detail.
Many
weekly schedules suggest treatment of Diabetes
only but most of the schedules suggest treatment
for Diabetic patients having different diseases
like treatment for Diabetic patients having
liver related troubles, treatment of Diabetic
patients having heart troubles etc. Treatments
of Diabetic patients having complicated troubles
like cancer, AIDS and Sickle
Cell Anaemia are important
part of this report. It gives information about
more than 35 human diseases.
The
effort to present this report on-line was
started from May, 2007 and it is expected to
complete in first quarter of year 2009. Aware of
the fact that most of the knowledge on this
aspect is still in undocumented form; author is
expecting that new researchers in coming
generations will add their contributions in this
report as it is never ending process. This is
the reason it has been published through
Ecoport, a reputed platform to share and enrich
global wealth of knowledge. Author is thankful
to Ecoport especially to Ecoport supervisor for
extending all support to publish this knowledge
in present form. It was not possible to publish
this detailed report in form of research paper
or report in science journals. There is plan to
add interviews of Healers and different films
taken during surveys.
This report is
effort of author working without team, finance
and other kind of support. Author invested his
time and efforts to conduct surveys as well as
typing each and every word of this report.
Author’s dream is to form
‘Traditional Healers Foundation’ in India as
first step and at world level at later stage so
that collective traditional knowledge like this
can be used for clinical trials and finally for
treatment of millions of sufferers around the
world, after taking consent and guidance of
Traditional Healers. Major part of economic gain
from this collective knowledge must go to the
Foundation through which it must be reached to
the every component.
[This note was
written on October 18,
2007]
Visit to this page and put table
no. in Table ID box.
Interactive Tables
from 2543 to 38166, till today, are having
weekly schedules. [Except few tables, in
between, added by other contributors.]
Important Information: Today is
Jan. 19,
2008. Till today I
have added over 56,000 Diabetes schedules in
Ecoport. Over 250 special treatments with 208
interactive tables for each treatment are
on-line. Hundreds of special treatments are on
way for addition. For each special treatment
brief description (in few lines) is available in
report at Ecoport. Detailed description of each
treatment having 300 to 500 standard pages
(total over 100,000 pages) is with
me.
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