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Nigerian tea will help in the treatment of diabetes
March 2, 2010
Nigerian tea will help in the treatment of diabetes
Tea from the leaves of trees growing in Africa and bitter orange may be remedy for patients with diabetes mellitus type II, described in the material Lexi Abutu and Christina Scott, sent from Abuja, Nigeria.
Tea from the dried leaves of the tree Rauvolfia vomiting / Rauvolfia vomitoria / – known in West Africa as “asofeyedzhe” in the language of the Yoruba tribe – and the fruit of bitter orange tree, as it turns out, is able to regulate the level of blood sugar, according to lead researcher Joan Campbell-Ayabo Toft, researcher at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
Diabetes mellitus type 2, which usually develops in middle-aged people, may constitute a threat to life and is characterized by high blood sugar. Often affects people suffering from obesity, diabetes – are endocrine disease that occurs as a result of absolute or relative insufficiency of insulin, which is produced by the pancreas.
In the course of the study conducted in Denmark, 23 patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 daily drink 750 milliliters of tea “asofeyedzhe”, while the control group drank a placebo. After four months among patients who consumed tea “asofeyedzhe”, it was observed reduction of blood sugar. The results of this study has not yet been published.
Campbell-Toft, who studied and later taught at the University of Nigeria, said that the tea, apparently affected differently than traditional methods of treatment of diabetes. Conventional drugs are meant to quickly remove excess sugar from the bloodstream, while the tea only the passage of time reduces blood sugar.
The researchers suggest that tea enhances the ability of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the muscle fibers to send sugar into the cells.
Campbell-Toft said in an interview with SciDev.Net, that she learned about this tea from his family and friends who gathered for the research of 50 kg tree leaves asofeyedzhe and 300 kg of bitter oranges in Edo State of Nigeria, where she grew up
But while Campbell-Toft optimistic about the therapeutic possibilities of tea, she warns that the development of each new drug to treat diabetes, “it will take years.”
Asofeyedzhe tree grows in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Senegal, Sudan and Uganda. Local healers also use its leaves as a laxative and for treatment of mental disorders, leprosy and arthritis.
Insulin, which is in plants, can partly solve the problem of diabetes
September 1, 2008
Researchers from the University of Central Florida found that insulin, which is in plants, can partly solve the problem of diabetes, so far – in laboratory mice.
To date, scientists have created genetically modified tobacco, which is present in leaves more than normal insulin genes. Insulin received thus injected laboratory mice with diabetes for 8 weeks.
Following such a course, scientists determined that levels of blood sugar in normal mice, and their cells produce the required amount of insulin alone.
In the short term, scientists intend to replace tobacco leaf lettuce leaves, because they are less expensive in production, but also in their cases could be avoided stigmatsii (damaged skin), tobacco-related.
U.S. National Institute of Health has already allocated for this study, 2 million dollars. The date of commencement of testing on humans at the university has not yet been reported.