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  Herb Information
The hypoglycemic effects of the extract became more apparent after insulin was discontinued in the treated group, and normoglycemic values were maintained solely by the administration of the cactus extract.
hypoglycemic effect, two tests in fasting conditions, one with the intake of 500 g of broiled Opuntia stems and the other one with 400 ml of water as control, were performed in eight type II diabetics.
An acute hypoglycemic effect of nopal was observed in diabetic patients, but not in healthy subjects, the researchers concluding that the mechanisms of this effect differ from those exhibited by currently available hypoglycemic agents.
www.herbalsafety.utep.edu /clinical.asp?pk=24   (1367 words)

  
 The Hypoglycemic Index and Acne Relationship Explained
The hypoglycemic index is an index that measures how quickly any given food will raise blood sugar levels.
The hypoglycemic index in theory seems like a useful indicator of your bodies blood sugar response to foods.
It is not so much the rate at which foods turn to sugar (what the hypoglycemic index of a food reveals) that is important, but whether you overwhelm your system with too much sugar at any one time (the volume).
www.natural-acne-treatments.com /hypoglycemic-index-acne.html   (715 words)

  
 Diabetes In Control Newsletter - Severe Hypoglycemic Episodes Infrequent in the Workplace
Mild hypoglycemic episodes were defined as those that could be self-treated, while those that required the assistance of another person were considered severe.
Adverse events occurred in 54, or 23%, of the severe hypoglycemic episodes, including 29 cases of loss of consciousness, 21 seizures, 4 head injuries, 5 cases of a person injuring someone else, and 2 instances of property damage.
Hypoglycemic episodes resulted in little work time lost, the researchers found, with the maximum time off required after a mild episode being 30 minutes, and a 1.5-day absence after a severe episode for one person.
www.diabetesincontrol.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2894   (597 words)

  
 Definition of Oral hypoglycemic agent
An oral hypoglycemic agent is a medication (usually a pill or capsule) that can be take by mouth to lower a high blood sugar toward normal.
Alpha glucosidase inhibitors are "diabetes pills" but not technically hypoglycemic agents because they do not have a direct effect on insulin secretion or sensitivity.
For example, at least one compound that enhances the sensitivity of glucokinase to rising glucose is in the stage of animal research.
www.wordiq.com /definition/Oral_hypoglycemic_agent   (652 words)

  
 oral hypoglycemic agents
Drugs that are used to lower blood glucose levels are typically called "oral hypoglycemic agents." Other names you might come across are "anti-hyperglycemic agents" or (my least favourite) "anti-diabetic drugs." There are a rapidly increasing number of drug groups (and increasing numbers of drugs within each group) available to treat high blood sugar levels.
Lastly, it is to be noted that oral hypoglycemic agents are often used in combination with insulin in treating type 2 diabetes.
When oral hypoglycemic agents can keep the blood sugar levels down during most of the day, but are unable to keep the fasting (that is; before breakfast) values under control.
www.ianblumer.com /oral_hypoglycemic_agents.htm   (474 words)

  
 The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia
Probably the hypoglycemic diet differs from the natural diet in that the number of snack per day are increased.
The Hypoglycemic diet aims at normalizing blood sugar levels, thereby normalizing stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol, that are thought to be responsible for the symptoms of mood-swings, depression, anxiety, phobias, alcoholism and drug-addiction.
Many hypoglycemics have hidden allergies, that is after having been on the hypoglycemic diet for some time they discover that they are allergic to certain food items.
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au /articles/hypoglycemic_diet.html   (790 words)

  
 Hypoglycemic Raw Foods Diet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
I was part of a Hypoglycemic support group that had as a...
What stabilized hypoglycemic can do is change their diet to what seems best for them.
hypoglycemic diet is a decision only you can make for yourself.
www.dietspots.com /93/hypoglycemic-raw-foods-diet.html   (511 words)

  
 Diabetes therapy may impair memory function in children
Every time a child in the study had a severe hypoglycemic episode, the parents were required to report it to the nurses.
Because a person with diabetes is unlikely to check glucose levels in the midst of a hypoglycemic episode, the researchers couldn't define severe hypoglycemia according to measurable glucose levels.
And hypoglycemic episodes selectively, although not exclusively, impair neuronal function in the brain's hippocampus, a seahorse-shaped structure important in memory and learning.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1999-10/WUiS-Dtmi-041099.php   (901 words)

  
 hypoglycemic diet, paleolithic diet, mayo diet
hypoglycemic diet On the other hand, a 5 calorie piece of celery may require the same 100 calories to digest, but resulting in a net LOSS of 95 calories from your storage of your body fat!
Offers hypoglycemic diet and low carb diets, weight watchers diet, low calorie diets.This process continues on down to your large intestine where the rest of any food and fluids are absorbed into your body.
hypoglycemic diet For instance...A piece of pie consisting of 350 calories may only require 100 calories to be digested by your body thus resulting in a net GAIN of 250 calories to be added to your fat storage.
www.lasikdiary.com /hypoglycemic-diet.htm   (677 words)

  
 hypoglycemic diet Resources
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 Hypoglycemic, Oral: Glipizide: Glipizide: 24 Drugs
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Much of Freds rumination Buy Glipizide might be summed up in the words, "It certainly would have been a fine thing for her to marry Farebrother--but if she loves me best and I am a good husband?" Perhaps Mr.
"To think of the part Hypoglycemic, Oral one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline!" CHAPTER LXVII.
www.24-drugs.com /glipizide/glipizide/hypoglycemic--oral.html   (757 words)

  
 Diabetes In Control Newsletter - Issue 167 Item 8 Theophylline Improves Hypoglycemic Unawareness In Type 1's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In diabetic patients with hypoglycemic unawareness who took theophylline for two weeks, the drug's effects on glucose counterregulation were sustained over the course of treatment.
In the July issue of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Dr. Paul Smits and colleagues at the University Medical Center Nijmegen, The Netherlands, explain that a single dose of theophylline is known to improve hypoglycemic unawareness in patients with type I diabetes.
Twelve patients with type I diabetes and hypoglycemic unawareness participated in a crossover study in which they took 250 mg of theophylline twice daily for 15 days, or matching placebo for 15 days.
www.diabetesincontrol.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1453   (391 words)

  
 The Hypoglycemic Effect of Ascorbic Acid in a Juvenile-Onset Diabetic
At the time of the experiment the subject was 20 years old and did not respond to oral hypoglycemic agents.
In order to examine the hypoglycemic effect of ascorbic acid, progressively increasing amounts of ascorbic acid were ingested hourly from 7:00 AM to 1:00 AM.
Control of the diabetes was maintained by reducing the daily insulin dosage in response to hypoglycemic reactions, and by increasing ascorbic acid consumption when glycosuria developed.
www.seanet.com /~alexs/ascorbate/197x/dice-jf-ircs-1973-march-p41.htm   (482 words)

  
 Advice please - hypoglycemic website?
It was mentally ill in a bad way (won't go into all the details), was a psychiatric patient on every conceivable drug, known at the time (now 30 years ago), suffered depression and was close to suicidal.
I have stated that the hypoglycemic diet is a near panacea for the treatment of mental illness.
The hypoglycemic diet is such a wide ranging diet, that it is impossible to advise what YOU should eat.
www.uncommonforum.com /viewtopic.php?t=5102   (2106 words)

  
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In: Indian J Exp Biol (1996 Apr) 34(4):351-5 ISSN: 0019-5189 The mechanism of dose-dependent hypoglycemic effect, the margin of safety and ED50 of three structurally unrelated compounds, tolbutamide (TB), centpiperalone (CP) and a swerchirin-containing fraction (SWI) from the plant Swertia chirayita, were investigated in experimental models.
In: Planta Med (1994 Dec) 60(6):507-11 ISSN: 0032-0943 Hypoglycemic activity-guided fractionation led to the isolation of five known xanthones and two triterpenoids from the ethyl acetate soluble fraction of Swertia japonica and their identification was based on spectroscopic methods.
A comparative hypoglycemic activity of the other three xanthones together with bellidifolin was also studied.
www.swsbm.com /Abstracts/Swertia-AB.txt   (3230 words)

  
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In general there is very little biochemical knowledge of the specific modes of action in the treatment of diabetes, but most of the plants have been found to contain substances (e.g., glucosides, alkaloids) frequently implicated as having anti-diabetic effects.
Oral administration of an aqueous extract (0.39 g/kg) of the aerial parts of this plant to normoglycemic and to alloxan-diabetic rabbits produced significant hypoglycemic activity, which was consistent and time-dependent.
SOURCE Diabetes Res; VOL 26, ISS 3, 1994, P127-38 ABSTRACT Rhizome of Costus speciosus, tuber of Nephrolepsis tuberosa, and bulb of Stephania hernandifolia, used by the local people and traditional healers in the Eastern Himalayan belt, were studied for their effects on serum glucose levels in nondiabetic and diabetic rat models at different prandial states.
www.webshells.com /medsrch/hypogly.txt   (802 words)

  
 Pets with Diabetes: Oral hypoglycemic drugs (glipizide)
It may be that not enough insulin is being produced, or that the normal amount of insulin is being produced but the body's cells are not responding to it properly.
When the cat is diagnosed, the vet determines the cat’s overall health, the severity of the diabetes, whether or not the cat has ketoacidosis or other diabetes complications such as hind leg weakness (neuropathy), the cat’s ability to take pills, and the owner’s desires (quick diabetes control, ability to give pills, etc.).
It is estimated that oral hypoglycemic drugs will work in about 1 of every 8 diabetic cats.
www.petdiabetes.org /oral_drugs.htm   (819 words)

  
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Traditional plant treatments for diabetes mellitus have been recorded but only a small number of these have received scientific and medical evaluation to assess their efficacy.
The findings indicate that the hypoglycemic activity is due to an ability to stimulate insulin release from the pancreas but not insulin like activity.
The hypoglycemic activity in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats is probably due to G.
www.grad.cmu.ac.th /abstract/1999/med/abstract/med990011.html   (318 words)

  
 The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia
Thus although hypoglycemia and the hypoglycemic diet are at the core of nutritional treatment, it is only the first step in the treatment of over 90 other illnesses, including many ‘psychological’ problems that may have resulted from the underlying disorder.
The most important of these are “What is Hypoglycemia?” and “The Hypoglycemic Diet”.
There is a folder providing hypoglycemic or diabetic recipes supervised by Sue Litchfield, author of Sue’s Cookbook.
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au   (435 words)

  
 Induced Hypoglycemic Treatment (IHT)
Stephen Barrett, M.D. Induced Hypoglycemic Treatment (IHT) was one of several treatments offered by BioPulse International, a company whose stock was traded over the counter (OTC Bulletin Board symbol BIOP).
Remember, too, that hypoglycemic episodes are not uncommon among diabetics who take insulin, including diabetics who have cancer.
Hypoglycemic episodes, which occur most often in diabetics who take insulin, are usually followed by several hours of depressed functioning.
www.quackwatch.org /01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/iht.html   (1733 words)

  
 Baylor Neurology Case of the Month   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
These patients, and others with frequent hypoglycemic events, may develop the syndrome of hypoglycemia unawareness, in which neuroglycopenic symptoms arise without prior sensations of hunger or adrenergic symptoms of hypoglycemia.
Establishing Whipple's triad for a diagnosis of hypoglycemic encephalopathy, or neuroglycopenia, is critical for diagnosis and subsequent management.
A low serum glucose measured in isolation is not considered diagnostic of neuroglycopenia, as a number of subjects may experience transiently low serum glucose levels without symptoms.
www.bcm.tmc.edu /neurol/challeng/pat53/summary.html   (2599 words)

  
 Clinical depression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Insulin shock therapy is an old and largely abandoned treatment of severe depressions, psychoses, catatonic states, and other mental disorders.
It consists of induction of hypoglycemic coma by intravenous infusion of insulin.
The treatment is potentially unsafe and can be lethal in some cases (about 1% of patients undergoing insulin coma), even with proper monitoring.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clinical_depression   (8125 words)

  
 Hypoglycemic Diets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It has neither calories nor carbohydrates, is suitable for diabetics, doesn't cause tooth decay, and has been shown to reduce hypertension.
Buckwheat protein fractions have a unique fiber and hypoglycemic agent that allows you to maintain a ketogenic diet and partition carbohydrates to be used to build muscle and not fat!
Not to be taken during pregnancy; nor combined with anticoagulants, antidepressants, sedatives, narcotics, anti-anxiety agents, thyroid medication, hypoglycemic agents, or diuretics.If nursing a baby or taking any prescription drugs, seek the advice of a health professional before using this product.
www.palmbeach-netlink.com /health/Hypoglycemic+Diets   (1416 words)

  
 Oral Hypoglycemic Agents
Oral Hypoglycemic Agents are pills or capsules that people take to lower the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood.
All oral hypoglycemic agents belong to a class of drugs known as sulfonylureas.
Each type of pill is sold under two names: one is the generic name as listed by the Food and Drug Administration; the other is the trade name given by the manufacturer.
www.paralumun.com /diabetesoral.htm   (141 words)

  
 Hypoglycemic : General Health : Active Low-Carber Forums
I was reading about "hypoglycemic" and it was the same symptoms I was feeling the dizziness etc. It said to drink a glass of orange juice and it will make you feel better.
If you are indeed hypoglycemic having that OJ may have set off a roller coaster effect.
If you feel a hypoglycemic episode coming on, you must eat some PROTEIN right away.
forum.lowcarber.org /archive/index.php/t-23905.html   (445 words)

  
 Caffeine Consumption Increases Intensity Of Hypoglycemic Warning Symptoms - PodiatryChannel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
David Kerr and colleagues from the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, UK, explain that previous studies have shown that, under laboratory conditions, ingestion of 250 mg to 400 mg caffeine--a dose equivalent to 2 to 4 cups of drip-brewed coffee per day--increases both the intensity of warning symptoms and the counterregulatory response to clamped hypoglycemia.
Hypoglycemic episodes were monitored by determining capillary blood glucose levels and by symptom questionnaire.
In women, caffeine was associated with a modest 5-mm Hg increase in blood pressure.
www.podiatrychannel.com /PodiatryWorld/caffeine.shtml   (428 words)

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