Source: DGNews  |  Posted 8 years ago

By Charlene Laino

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- June 18, 2003 -- The finding that American ginseng may help to normalize blood glucose levels emphasizes the need to ask diabetic patients if they are taking any complementary medicines, Canadian researchers say.

University of Toronto investigators spoke about the implications of their trial during a poster session here on June 14th at the 63rd Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association's.

The researchers enrolled 30 well-controlled type 2 diabetics into a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover-designed study.

The participants, who were kept on their standard antidiabetic regimen of oral hypoglycemic agents or lifestyle intervention alone, were randomly assigned to receive either 3 g of ground-up North American