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The Complete Home Guide todiHseerabsse, Nsatural Healing, and Nutrition  
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Cut down on or cut out meat, especially red meat. Use vegetable  
protein sources instead (see chapter 4). Avoid milk and cheese.  
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Drinks containing nettle leaf and hibiscus f ower are invaluable, giv-  
ing almost instantaneous energy (they are high in chromium, the  
blood sugar mineral) and providing good nourishment between  
meals. Additionally, drink superfood.  
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Zinc levels must be maintained. Pumpkin seeds as well as alfalfa seeds  
and sprouted alfalfa are excellent sources of zinc.  
All vegetables, raw and steamed, are helpful, particularly those that  
are opposite to sweet in taste, namely, sour and bitter ones like like  
chicory, dandelion leaves, artichokes, and olives.  
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Ideally, individual patients should seek more detailed advice from  
their own health practitioners, in order to address their particular  
needs, be they overweight or underweight, or have any other specif c  
important traits.  
f Fenugreek seed and burdock root both contain a substance called  
inulin that is very close to insulin. Make strong teas (decoctions  
which are simmered for twenty minutes) using three parts fenugreek  
seed and one part burdock root; drink 1 to 3 cups daily.  
f Meadowsweet leaf tea or tincture will balance and heal digestive  
problems.  
f Individual herbal advice should be sought, but herbs like dandelion  
root, fenugreek seed (one month on, one month off ), Siberian gin-  
seng root, garlic, cayenne pepper, juniper berry, wild yam root, bur-  
dock root, and barberry root bark all help balance insulin levels.  
Numerous other herbs are capable of benef cially activating the pan-  
creas. Cascara sagrada aged bark is one example and has long been  
recognized by conventional medicine as being highly useful. All en-  
docrine herbs will be invaluable and individual tailoring by a profes-  
sional for the recipient will be required.  
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Liver and colon cleanses and herbs will be necessary (see chapter 6).  
Take alternating hot and cold showers.  
Use juniper essential oil in bathwater or added to a massage oil.  
If the pancreas is swollen, try hot castor-oil packs (see chapter 3).  
Stress and shock (both in the past and in the present) are an emo-  
tional factor inf uencing diabetes, and such situations should be  
avoided, even if major lifestyle changes are necessary.Work on enjoy-  
able exercise, relaxation, and meditation.  


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