Bitter Melon 100  DIABETES- Blood Sugar Lowering Effect-Antibacterial-Antifungal Health

                                 Benefits for Digestive System

DIABETES:

blood sugar lowering effect

Bitter melon is also one of the best remedies for diabetes. It has the ability to increase the insulin sensitivity in our body. The charantin compound of this fruit keeps the amount of glucose low, that’s why if you think that you are already experiencing hypoglycaemic, do not eat this fruit or its leaves. But if you are a certified diabetic, a regular intake of Karela will give you a better result. If you can’t stand its taste, you can find tablets of bitter melon in some drugstores that were labeled as food supplement and as treatment for diabetes.(http://doctorsinghs.com/blog/herbs/health-benefits-of-bitter-melon-karela.html)

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Health Benefits of Bitter Melon (Karela) on Digestive System:

Karela has antihelminthic or anthelmintic compounds. This property is used for the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases and can kill parasitic worms inside our body. In Togo, they used this fruit to naturally eliminate the worms inside their body. It can cure gastrointestinal diseases because it has compounds that can kill toxic substances that keep on killing the good bacteria inside of us.

Health Benefits of Bitter Melon (Karela) in Infections

Karela leaves are also used to cure some ailments. It can prevent malaria bacteria from growing. Well, as we all know, prevention is always better than cure. When you start to see the symptoms of malaria or if your doctor says that you have malaria, boil some Karela leaves and drink it like a tea. You can add garlic, salt, or small amount of sugar to even out the bitter taste of its leaves.

Karela tea is not only expert in killing malaria bacteria, but it can also weaken some viruses such as chickenpox, measles, herpes, and even HIV. It slows down the bacterial growth, and kills it after some time. Well, this might not be a friendly medicine for children because it doesn’t have a nice taste. What you need to do, deceive your child with sweet candies so that they’ll forget its taste.

It also has inflammatory characteristic. You can find this characteristic on its seed. Karela seeds are responsible in protecting your heart from any irregularities. It burns the unnecessary fats that keep on clogging in arteries and other veins. Seeds are better than the fruit and leaves, because it doesn’t have bitter taste.

Health Benefits of Bitter Melon (Karela) in Diabetes

Bitter melon is also one of the best remedies for diabetes. It has the ability to increase the insulin sensitivity in our body. The charantin compound of this fruit keeps the amount of glucose low, that’s why if you think that you are already experiencing hypoglycaemic, do not eat this fruit or its leaves. But if you are a certified diabetic, a regular intake of Karela will give you a better result. If you can’t stand its taste, you can find tablets of bitter melon in some drugstores that were labeled as food supplement and as treatment for diabetes.

Other Major Health Benefits of Bitter Melon (Karela)

Karela also has anti-cancer property. There are two compounds found on this plant, which are the a-eleostearic acid, that you can find in Karela seed, and the 15,16-dihydroxy-a-eleostearic acid, that you will find on its fruits. These compounds are good remedy for leukemia problem and some blood irregularities such as anemia. It helps in producing healthy red blood cells and balances the amount of white blood cells in our body. It also normalizes blood pressure.

Karela also has folates. Study actually shows that it has high amount of folates that helps in treating defective neural tubes which usually occurs during early pregnancy. So if you are a pregnant woman, do not forget to eat bitter melon once in a while.

It might be unbelievable but bitter melon also contains Vitamin-C. Vitamin C is good in eliminating free radicals. Free radicals are source of malignant cells, so help yourself in eating Vitamin-C rich food to avoid the production of free radicals in your body.

BOSOTN UNIVESITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE :

Proven Scientific Evidence Hypoglycemic activity based on structural similarity to insulin and stimulation of pancreatic secretion of insulin. Decrease of serum glucose levels has been observed in animal studies and a few human studies. 2Antiviral and antineoplastic activities have been demonstrated in in-vitro studies.

Active Ingredients Aerial parts -- flavanoids, saponocides, phenols, tannins, alkaloids, steroids, terpinoids-momordicinas 1,2,3, quinines.Fruits -- amino acids alanine, beta alanine, gamma alanine, gamma-amino-butiric acid, glutamic acid, prolin, tryptamine, p-polypetides, steroids-charantine, alpha-spinasterol, beta cytosterol, stimasterol and derivatives D-galateronic acid. Green fruit-saponins-diosgenin, triterpine momordicosides, E-1,EX,F', F-1,F-2, G,H,I,J,K,L Fruit pericarpium caratinoids abg caratine derivatives lutein, lycopene, Zeaxantine, zeinoxantine. Amino acids found in seeds-alinine, arginine,asparagines, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glycine, histadine, leucine, leusine, lysine, ornatine, sterine, tyrosine, vicine, a and b momorcrines, momordine, zeatine and zeatine rhibosides, momordicosides A,B,C,D,E.

PUB MED(US National Library of Medicine):

harmacological actions and potential uses of Momordica charantia: a review.

Nutrition Facts

*Per cent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.