Nopal plant normalizes blood sugar, treats diabetes, boosts insulin sensitivity

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Nopal plant normalizes blood sugar, treats diabetes, boosts insulin

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(NewsTarget) The prickly pear cactus – known as nopal in Mexico – exhibits

multiple medicinal effects. As professor of nutrition Winston F. Craig, Ph.D.,

writes to the HighBeam Encyclopedia, the prickly pear can help with diabetes,

lower blood sugar levels and offer other health benefits.

 

What you need to know - Conventional View

• The ability for the prickly pear cactus (nopal) to lower blood sugar has

been well documented by many studies. In traditional Mexican medicine, nopal is

used for treating type-2 Diabetes.

 

• Mexican researchers found that people with non-insulin-dependent diabetes

given broiled nopal stems experienced a large drop in blood sugar levels.

 

• It has been shown that daily consumption of 250mg of this plant will lower

total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels, according to a recent study. HDL

cholesterol and triglyceride levels were not affected.

 

• In India, the cactus has been used to treat whooping cough and asthma.

 

• Prickly pear fruit and other elements of the cactus are edible as a jelly

or jam, as a fruit or as a cooked dish.

 

• The cactus is naturally found in Arizona, Mexico and other parts of the

American Southwest; it is commercially grown in California and also has been

exported to Europe and India.

 

• In the Sonoran Desert, growing a new prickly pear is easy: the cactus grows

in a linked " pad " setup, and each pad can be cut off, replanted and in most

cases will take root, making a new cactus.

 

 

What you need to know - Alternative View

Statements and opinions by Mike Adams

 

• For many diabetics or prediabetics, nopal is a complete replacement for

prescription blood sugar drugs. It regulates blood sugar with no negative side

effects and no liver damage (which is one of the primary side effects of blood

sugar prescriptions). Safety note: Do not halt prescription drug use except

under the direct supervision of a naturopathic physician.

 

• Nopal is a key ingredient is many highly effective (and safe) blood sugar

regulating nutritional supplements

http://www.newstarget.com/nutritional_supplements.html (see resources, below).

 

• Conventional medicine, including drug companies and the FDA, do not want

the public to learn about nopal because it would cost Big Pharma hundreds of

millions of dollars in annual profits from diabetes drug sales. The public is

intentionally kept ignorant about natural treatments for diabetes as a way to

maximize corporate profits.

 

• Most doctors have never heard of nopal, nor its blood sugar balancing

effects, because the use of medicinal herbs is simply not taught in medical

school.

Virtually all M.D.s are nutritionally illiterate when it comes to herbs and

food supplements.

 

• Native Americans, who are suffering under an epidemic of diabetes,

desperately need to be re-taught the medicinal uses of desert plants. If nopal

were

widely harvested and used to help regulate blood sugar in Native Americans, the

diabetes rate would fall sharply. But conventional medicine, dominated

primarily by rich white men, chooses to deliberately deny honest information

about

nutritional supplements to Native Americans. In doing so, Native Americans have

been isolated from their land and their medicinal wisdom.

 

Resources you need to know

• Organic Nopal Powder from Good Cause Wellness

http://www.goodcausewellness.com/servlet/Detail?no=12 is available in capsule

form as a nutritional

supplement.

 

• Nopal powder is also a key ingredient in the Baseline of Health

Foundation's Glucotor V.2 supplement

http://www.baselinenutritionals.com/index.php?display=products & view= , which

contains a number of synergistic ingredients that

help regulate healthy blood sugar levels.

http://www.newstarget.com/blood_sugar_levels.html

 

• Nopal is also used to purify water. Read this news story for details.

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050917/note14.asp

 

• Note: Neither this publisher, nor its authors, have any financial

relationship whatsoever with the supplement companies mentioned here.

 

Bottom line

• Among its medicinal qualities, the nopal cactus lower blood sugars for

diabetics http://www.newstarget.com/diabetics.html and fights cholesterol.