Cloves and blood sugar level management

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is now a common, growing, serious and costly, but potentially preventable disease appearing across populations globally. Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by high blood sugar, vascular problems, neurological problems, and high blood glucose levels due to decreased insulin excretion or insulin resistance or both.

People with diabetes are at risk for advanced cardiovascular diseases because of high blood glucose levels.

Clove buds are important spices used across the world as natural remedy and in folklore for many diseases management. Cloves offer anti-inflammatory, analgesic and digestive health benefits for diabetes. Cloves also help keep the blood sugar levels in check and are known to promote insulin production, further controlling diabetes.

Clove reportedly modulated physiological responses in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Eugenol (4-allyl-2-methoxyphenol) is a naturally occurring phenol essential oil and makes up to 90% of the clove oil. It is known to be an antioxidant, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor and known to have neuroprotective effects.

Clove oil helps in maintaining the insulin levels. The postprandial insulin and glucose response mechanism is improved significantly on consuming clove oil.
Cloves and blood sugar level management

Health benefits of cloves

Cloves are very useful in both culinary seasoning and herbal medicine. Medicinally, clove is considered a warming herb. Cloves are the dried flower buds that have red color and sweet fragrant taste due to the presence of eugenol.

Eugenol has made them subject of numerous health studies showing benefit for the prevention of toxicity from environmental pollutants such as carbon tetrachloride, prevention of digestive tract cancers, and treatment of joint inflammation.

Clove is a good source of manganese, calcium, magnesium, vitamin K, vitamin C, phytosterols, flavonoids, omega-3 fatty acids, tannins and volatile oil containing eugenol.
Here are a great uses for cloves:
*Temporarily treat bad breath and toothache
*Treat conditions of cold and stagnation
*It stimulates metabolism and decrease weight
*Relieve upper respiratory infections
*Reduce inflammation
*Treat scrapes and bruises
*Improve digestion
*Enhance sexual health
*Treatment of appetite loss
*Treatment of vomiting
*Relieves stress depression, anxiety and insomnia
*It boosts immunity
Health benefits of cloves