While medical science claims diabetes is incurable, many studies have proven that it responds very well to yogic management. The newly diagnosed diabetic has excellent prospects of completely controlling and correcting his condition if he adopts yogic practices and lifestyle under guidance.
The yogic treatment of diabetes is directed at the underlying causes of the disease as well as to it’s symptoms. It is based on the internal readjustment of the whole organism through stimulation of the body’s own regenerative processes.
The yoga practices are thought to act in two different ways to overcome diabetes. Firstly the cells of Islets of Langerhans are rejuvenated. This would mean that insulin production is stimulated and that it’s release is better timed so as to be appropriate to the level of sugar in the blood. This occurs gradually as depleted levels of pranic energy in the mid digestive tract are restored.
Secondly, yoga seems to bring about a more general resensitization of muscle and fat tissues to the body’s own (endogenous) insulin. This is achieved specifically by the anti rheumatic series of pawanmuktasana, which removes blockages of energy in the peripheral muscles and tissues, and by the anti-gastric series of pawanmuktasana part-1, which selectively activates and mobilizes the body’s fatty adipose tissue stores. Suryanamashkara is a powerful pranic generator which also helps to restore a balanced metabolism.
(Reference :- Yogic Management of Common Diseases by Dr. Swami Karmananda)
