Herbal medicine is oldest form of healthcare and constitutes a key role in development of modern medicine as we know it today. Back when technology was still unheard of, primitive men utilised vast flora around them to fullest extent, observing both plant and animal life and their components, eventually giving birth to herbal medicine. In a study by World Health Organization on herbal medicine use, about 80% of world's populace still rely on herbal medicine to cure certain ailments and about 74% of drugs we use today contain at least one botanical element. For instance, Chinese Herbal Medicine's use of ephedrine to cure respiratory conditions still exists in present time. Ephedrine remains an active ingredient in most of commercial drugs that are being prescribed to relieve asthma symptoms.

Diabetes has two types. Type 1 Diabetes usually occurs in young people and requires frequent insulin injections, while Type 2 Diabetes is experienced by older people and is not as dependent on insulin. Majority of those who have Type 2 Diabetes have been found to be either obese or overweight.

Diabetes usually runs in family, so it’s best to know early on if you have it. The common symptoms experienced by someone who has diabetes include unusually frequent urination and hunger, constant thirst, rapid weight loss, tiredness, numbness in feet and hands, recurrent skin infections, itching in private parts and blurred vision. When left unattended, diabetes could escalate to hyperglycemia, which develops from an excess of glucose in blood, and leave person temporarily unconscious, or, worse, cause severe infections, poor healing abilities, heart ailments and numbness from nerve damage.

The direct origins of diabetes, besides heredity, remain uncertain. However, several scientists believe that diabetes can also spring from an infection in pancreas, a disorder in autoimmune system and even from an unhealthy diet and lifestyle.