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What is Glucose Intolerance

Treating Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders With Herbal Medicines
Metabolic conditions result in higher blood glucose than normal blood glucose levels.
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Efficacy of Herbal Medicine in Treating Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders
Chittipolu Ajaykumar (Vision College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4808-0.ch010
Abstract
Metabolic syndrome is an interrelated cluster of pathogens such as obesity, impaired glucose tolerance, cancer, and insulin resistance leading to endocrinal disorders. In the 21st century, progression of the disease is rapid increases due to change in the lifestyle of humans having a chance to develop metabolic change, and in some cases, mutations occur, which drastically affects the endocrine functionality and subsequently causes syndrome X. In modern medicine, different medications are available but only to maintain the condition lifetime. For the complete cure, WHO focused on the traditional knowledge in 2004, using the herbal medicine to cure all metabolic aliments. According to ancient medical treatment, metabolic syndromes are completely curable. They divided the disease progression stages and formulated the different dosage forms. All the data obtained from the ancient herbal medicine treatment are not evidence-based. So, the researchers all around the world focused on the evidence-based proofs to confirm whether herbal medicine shows efficacy in curing the metabolic syndrome or not.
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