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Ginger could help control diabetes
Tuesday August 07, 2012 02:27:03 PM,
IANS
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Sydney: Ginger could
help manage high levels of blood sugar which create complications
for long-term diabetic patients.
A new report reveals the potential power of ginger to control
blood glucose by using muscle cells. Ginger extracts were able to
increase the uptake of glucose into muscle cells independently of
insulin, says Basil Roufogalis, professor of pharmaceutical
chemistry, University of Syndey, who led the study.
"This assists in the management of high levels of blood sugar that
create complications for long-term diabetic patients, and may
allow cells to operate independently of insulin," says Roufogalis,
the journal Planta Medica reports.
"The components responsible for the increase in glucose were
gingerols -- the major phenolic components of the ginger rhizome.
Under normal conditions, blood glucose level is strictly
maintained within a narrow range, and skeletal muscle is a major
site of glucose clearance in the body," says Roufogalis, according
to a Sydney statement.
The pharmacy researchers extracted whole ginger rhizomes obtained
from Buderim Ginger and showed that that one fraction of the
extract was the most effective in reproducing the increase in
glucose uptake by the whole extract in muscle cells grown in
culture.
Analysis by colleagues Colin Duke and Van Tran from Sydney's
Faculty of Pharmacy showed this fraction was rich in gingerols.
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