Irish Scientist: 'Herbs in Himalayas can control Type 2 diabetes'

The compounds from the roots of an herb plant and extracts from the bark of another plant are found to stimulate and help insulin production in laboratory conditions according to a researcher from Northern Ireland.

Dr. Yasser Abdel-Wahab is a senior lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland. He and his team have discovered the roots of a cucumber-like vegetable, an herb plant from the forests of India and extracts from the bark of a Himalayan plant can be used to treat Type 2 diabetes patients. Dr. Abdel-Wahab told a conference in Glasgow that both the roots of an herb plant and the bark of Swetia chirayita (or chirette), a plant grown in the Himalayas region have compounds in it that appears to stimulate and improve insulin production in laboratory conditions.

“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,”

Several scientists from United Kingdom are visiting the conference to investigate and discuss the various treatments for Type 2 diabetes.