Different Herbal Treatments with Different Targets - By: Ines Khalsi

Inulin Plants that Limit the Intestinal Absorption of Carbohydrates: yacon, Jerusalem

Food plants contain different types of polysaccharides. Starches are very common, they are carbohydrates of which the basic molecule is glucose (glucose polymer). The human digestive system is able to digest (depolymerize) starches, and easily absorb all the glucose. In Fructan as inulin, the basic molecule is fructose. This type of polymer-based fructose is not absorbed by the digestive system because the digestive enzymes can not degrade it.

Only our colonic bacteria can transform some of the equivalent Fructan molecules. Dieticians are now interested in inulin plants (Fructan) because they provide few calories while inducing satiety effect (an appetite suppresser). In addition they maintain the intestinal flora diverse and active which facilitates transit and keeps the colon in "good health" (a probiotic).

What are the plants Fructan (inulin)? The root of chicory and dandelion, the rhizomes of quackgrass or asparagus, tubers of Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) and yacon (Polymnia Smallanthus sonchifolius = sonchifolia).

The Jerusalem artichoke, Helianthus tuberosus, is a plant in North America, highly resistant and adaptable to many very poor lands. It was introduced in France prior to potatoes but was less successful despite the easiness of its culture. We can eat the underground tubers raw or cooked.

The yacon (Polymnia Smallanthus sonchifolia sonchifolius =) originates from the Andean region of South America, it contains more inulin than Jerusalem. It is almost unknown in Europe even though it grows in most temperate countries. You can eat the tubers raw or cooked. Some studies have shown that consumption of yacon allows, in addition, controlling moderate diabetes type 2. It is possible to find extracts from yacon on the international market (dried root powder or strips)

Sweetening Plants without Sugar: Stevia, Rubus suavissimus.

The attractiveness of humans to sugary foods is clear and universal. Yet the sugar is a relatively recent food, related to the development of plantations of sugar cane and beet sugar. The ubiquity of sugar (sucrose or other sugar industry) in the modern diet is partly responsible for the increase in obesity, tooth decay and diabetes type 2.

Why not replace these sugars through natural foods, producing the sweet sensation, but without calories or cariogenic risk?
We know at least two sweeteners plants: Stevia, Stevia rebaudiana, or sweet herb of Paraguay, and China sweet bramble, Rubus suavissimus. Asian countries that produce little sugar have adopted them such as (Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Malaysia), but the West does not know them because the lobbies of sugar and aspartame (sweetener sweetness) are powerful.

The leaves of these plants contain glycosides (stevioside for Stevia) having a great sweetening power (about two hundred times the effect of sugar). We use tea leaves or extracts of leaves in the diet (in Asia it is even the coca Stevia). The interest of these plants is not limited to their sweetening power which allows them to replace the sugar in a diet or slimming, they have other medicinal properties: anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, anti-allergic, anti-hypertensive. Both plants can be grown in Europe.

Plants that Increase Hepatic Activity, Purifying Plants:

dandelion, artichoke, rosemary, Mary thistle, turmeric, hercampuri (gentianella)

The liver is a very important gland in the regulation of glucose metabolism and blood lipids. Those overweight or obese have often an exhausted or malfunctioning liver when it is not steatosic in the manner of a goose liver that is stuffed. Thus we must stimulate the liver and its biliary excretion to accompany dieting. Hercampuri is a plant of South America mainly used in Peru.

About the Author

Ines Khalsi is a fitness professor, she has acquired a significant experience in weight loss therapies, having weight problems herself; she went across different medicines and discovered that herbal medicine is the safer way to lose superfluous kilos. She also discovered that herbal medicine can be used to fix many physical deficiencies. If you are interested in herbal products please visit: herbal-meds herbal-slim

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