How to cure diabetes with yoga asana.

DIABETES

Yoga is a very ancient practice to keep the physical condition healthy and a stress free mind. Yoga is a natural therapy that makes one look healthy youthful and beautiful.

It is proved that Yoga helps to energize the organ and increases metabolism. It is very helpful for controlling blood sugar level and reducing cholesterol. Thus yoga is useful for diabetes patients and decrease the complications of diabetes.

What is Diabetes?

Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high. Blood glucose is your main source of energy and comes from the food you eat.

Insulin a hormone made by the pancreas helps glucose from food get into your cells to be used for energy. Sometimes your body doesn’t make enough—or any—insulin or doesn’t use insulin well. Glucose then stays in your blood and doesn’t reach your cells.

The most common types of diabetes are type 1, type 2. 

Type 1 diabetes:-If you have type 1 diabetes, your body does not make insulin. Your immune system attacks and destroys the cells in your pancreas that make insulin. Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults, although it can appear at any age. People with type 1 diabetes need to take insulin every day to stay alive.

Type 2 diabetes:- If you have type 2 diabetes, your body does not make or use insulin well. You can develop type 2 diabetes at any age, even during childhood. However, this type of diabetes occurs most often in middle-aged and older people. Type 2 is the most common type of diabetes.

What health problems can people with diabetes develop?
Over time, high blood glucose leads to problems such as

What health problems can people with diabetes develop?
Over time, high blood glucose leads to problems such as

heart disease
stroke
kidney disease
eye problems
dental disease
nerve damage
foot problems

How Diabetes can be cured by Yoga?

Relaxation: Yoga postures or asanas are very helpful to relax cells and muscles. For that reason, it helps to stretch the cells of the pancreas. The stimulated cells help to produce more insulin which is essential to control. 

Mental health: A strong and healthy mind is important to fight against any disease. Doing yoga practice will rejuvenate your mind, make you feel refreshed and help you to focus. Mental stress is also one of the main causes of many diseases and diabetes is one of them. Blood sugar can never be controlled with a stressed mind. So, stress management is very important in diabetes treatment.

Diabetes treatment is painful, exhausting and costly. 

Though yoga is not fully approved by medical science, many researchers claim that yoga can prevent, control and cure diabetes without any kind of medicine.

Few Yoga Exercises to Control Sugar (Diabetes)

Anulom-Vilom Pranayama: Anulom-Vilom is another great breathing exercises to deal with diabetes. It is also known as alternate nasal breathing. The Asana works by calming your nervous system and releasing stress. 

Anulom vilom is a specific type of controlled breathing (pranayama) in the practice of yoga. It involves holding one nostril closed while inhaling, then holding the other not closed while exhaling. The process is then reversed and repeated.

Kapalabhati Pranayama: This breathing technique involves 'active exhalation and passive inhalation', and helps to correct the low blood circulation in the body. It also de-stresses the mind. It increases the capacity of your lungs, and strengthens them.

Technique: 

Sit in a comfortable meditation asana. The head and spine should be straight with the hands resting on the knees in either chin or jnana mudra. Close the eyes and relax the whole body. Exhale through both nostrils with a forceful contraction of the abdominal muscles. The following inhalation should take place passively by allowing the abdominal muscles to relax. Inhalation should be a spontaneous recoil, involving no effort. 

After completing 10 rapid breaths in succession, inhale and exhale deeply. Allow the breath to return to normal. This is one round. Practise up to 5 rounds.

Precautions: Kapalbhati should be performed on an empty stomach, 3 to 4 hours after meals. If practised late at night, it can prevent sleep. If pain or dizziness are experienced, stop the practice and sit quietly for some time. Practise with more awareness and less force. 

Dhanurasana  (bow pose): The entire alimentary canal is reconditioned by this asana. The liver, abdominal organs and muscles are massaged. The pancreas and adrenal glands are toned, balancing their secretions. The kidneys are massaged and excess weight is reduced around the abdominal area. This leads to improved functioning of the digestive, excretory and reproductive organs and helps to remove gastrointestinal disorders, dyspepsia, chronic constipation and sluggishness of the liver. It is useful for the management of diabetes and menstrual disorders. It improves blood circulation generally. The spinal column is realigned and the ligaments, muscles and netves are activated, removing stiffness. It helps to correct hunching of the upper back. It strengthens leg muscles, especially the thighs.

 Technique:

Lie flat on the stomach with the legs and feet together, and the arms and hands beside the body.

Bend the knees and bring the heels close to the buttocks. Clasp the hands around the ankles.

Place the chin on the floor. This is the starting position.

Tense the leg muscles and push the feet away from the body. Arch the back, lifting the thighs, chest and head together. Keep the arms straight.

In the final position the head is tilted back and the abdomen supports the entire body on the floor. 

The only muscular contraction is in the legs; the back and arms remain relaxed. Hold the final position for as long as is comfortable and then, slowly relaxing the leg muscles, lower the legs, chest and head to the starting position.

Release the pose and relax in the prone position until the respiration returns to normal.

This is one round. Practise 3 or up to 5 rounds.

Ardha Matsyendrasana: This posture helps to massage the internal organs such as gall bladder, kidney, liver, pancreas, and intestines. It is helpful for digestion and removes the toxin. It helps to control the sugar level by stimulating beta cells of the pancreas and secrete more insulin. 

Technique:

Sit with the legs stretched out in front of the body. 

Bend the right leg and place the right foot flat on the floor on the outside of the left knee. 

The toes of the right foot should face forward. Bend the left leg and bring the foot around to the right buttock. The outside edge of the foot should be in contact with the floor. 

Pass the left arm through the space between the chest and the right knee, and place it against the outside of the right leg. 

Hold the right foot or ankle with the left hand so that the right knee is close to the left armpit. 

Sit up as straight as possible. 

Raise the right arm in front of the body and gaze at the fingertips. 

Slowly twist to the right, simultaneously moving the arm, trunk and head. 

Use the left arm as a lever against the right leg to twist the trunk as far as possible without using the back muscles. 

Follow the tips of the fingers of the right hand with the gaze and look over the right shoulder. 

Do not strain the back. Bend the right elbow and place the an around the back of the waist. 

The back of the right hand should wrap around the left side of the waist. 

Alternatively, it can be placed as high as possible between the shoulder blades with the fingers pointing up. This an position enforces the straightness of the spine. 

Reverse the movements to come out of the posture and repeat on the other side.