Use of preparations based on ginseng, will help diabetics control the level of sugar in the blood. This conclusion was made by Canadian specialists who placed a report on the preliminary stage of research conducted on a group of volunteers in the April issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

The medicine taken 40 minutes before meals lowered the blood sugar content of patients by 20 percent. Although ginseng has been widely used in traditional Chinese medicine for more than two thousand years, Western doctors are skeptical about it.

According to representatives of the British Association of Diabetics, it is too early to draw conclusions: until they recommend refusing to accept the currently accepted principles of insulin-independent diabetes in favor of ginseng preparations.

The same opinion is shared by the authors of the published work. According to Dr. Vukson of the University of Toronto, the results of this study are only an excuse for a longer and scrupulous study of the properties of ginseng, its effect on the body with prolonged intake. In addition, it is necessary to establish whether the properties of the American ginseng used in the study differ from other varieties that grow in different parts of the world medicus. En.