Switch Over to Alternative Therapy for Diabetes Mellitus –A Life Style Disease

Alternative approach to a disease conditions especially life style diseases is an emerging concept in a present scenario of modern medicine. Diabetes mellitus which is one the most dreaded life style disease condition which is spreading as an epidemic across the globe as a large number of individuals who meet the current criteria for diabetes mellitus remain asymptomatic and unaware of having this disorder. Once regarded as a single disease entity, diabetes is now seen as a heterogeneous group of diseases, characterized by a state of chronic hyperglycemia resulting from a diversity of etiologies, environmental and genetic, acting jointly. Diabetes mellitus has recently been identified by as one of the refractory diseases for which satisfactory treatment is not available in modern allopathic system of medicine. It is therefore evident that alternative approach can be a way out for this iceberg disease. Various alternative approaches such as, Life style modification, Yoga, use of Medicinal plants having multiple beneficial effects .Alternative methods not only take care of most of the metabolic abnormalities associated with diabetes but can also reduce the risk of developing or delay the onset of diabetes mellitus amongst susceptible persons, are becoming a good & effective alternatives to modern medicines.