Background:
@EN Nowadays, though we can not cure diabetes mellitus, we can control it with combinations of diet, exercise, and drug therapies. In our country, there are a lot of "Folk Remedies" about the diabetic treatment, but they did not have been
evaluated
or
investigated systematically. So we studied the folk remedies in diabetic patients with questionnaries.
@ES Methods:
@EN We asked 16 questionnaries to 304 diabetic patients in diabetes clinics of our hospitals. The questionnaries covered the kind, course, effect, and the cost of folk remedies and the characteristics of diabetics.
@ES Results:
@EN 1) Total cases were 304 and the ratio of men and women was about 1 : 1.5. The average age was 57 years-old and the average duration of diabetes was 7.6 years.
2) Total kinds of studied folk remedies were 82 cases and most were. Lant-derived.
3) In 224 cases(73.9% of total), who experienced folk remedies, their averaged age was 57 years-old and the average duration of diabetes was 8.9 years. The duration of the folk remedies was 2.4 years and the average cost was 500,000 Won. The
common
folk remedies were reflexus, ginseng steamed red, also, cabbage, adlai, and raw bean et al. The 72.3% of experienced folk remedies were advised by the surrounding diabetic relatives of friends. The subjects effect of diabetic control was not
improved in
79.9% of the experienced and was aggravated more worsely in 5.6%. Nevertheless, if another new folk remedy is introduced to them ,they will try it in 78.6% with belief for the cure or the easy control of diabetes.
4) In 77 cases, who did not have experienced the folk remedies, maybe they had the shorter duration of diabetes and more easily in diabetes control thanexperienced group. And if new folk remedy is introduced to them, they will try it in 72.7%.
@ES Conclusion:
@EN The important known keys about the control of diabetes are diet therapy, exercise, and drug therapies, However, in our country, there are a lot of folk remedies for the cure or the easy control of diabetes. By our questionnaries, diabetic
status was
not improved in the 85.5% of total experienced cases. But most of experienced group did not give up the folk remedies because of the cure or the easy control of diabetes.
So we need to educate and advertize the true effect of folk remedies, and the key therapies of diabetes.
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