Conventional medicine holds diabetes a disorder, which cannot be cured but only controlled. Once affected, one has to live with it. Where as the unani Hakeems say diabetes is not the end of the road. The strongly believe that a total cure is possible through enlivening the inactive pancreatic cells, which are responsible for this condition. There is a saying among traditional Indian medicine practitioners that with modern, western drugs, often the cure is worse than the disease. Of course there are many exceptions but where diabetes is concerned, the side effects caused due to constant intake of western medicine of sure leads to various ailments, often as discomforting as diabetes itself. The most important difference between, western medicine and unani treatment is that, unani therapy try to make the pancreas to once again function at a normal and their natural level. There is no western medicine, which rejuvenates the pancreases. Unani, with its herbo-mineral treatment course achieve this.

Then why most people did not follow the age-old medicinal methods like unani treatment itself and saved themselves of a lot of agony got about through side effects from western drugs? If you ask us we think the most important problem faced is not the disease but the ignorance about the disease. Take for instance diabetes itself. According to most people, the best way to keep diabetes at bay or keep the sugar level down is to avoid sugar and chocolates and indulging the sweets both. The fact is that avoiding sweet things is just one aspect of keeping the sugar level at the normal level. There are innumerable requirements that a diabetic patient has to adhere to and only then would the sugar level really be kept at a normal level. For example, the patient has to take regular walks and do simple exercise. Basically make certain that perspiration takes place to burn the sugar. There are innumerable things apart from sugar, which has to be avoided. Starchy food like rice, potato & bread should be avoided. Certain vegetables like bitter gourd & French beans be consumed more to bring down the sugar level to normal and help insulin to flow. It is only when all these things adhered, them the blood sugar level will be steady.
According to the prominent unani physician & researcher Hakeem Tajuddin Hashmi, the western medicine has it's limitations as the philosophy is to treat the disease where as unani treatments are concerned that the aim is to treat the person as a whole. "It is for t his reason itself that till now there is not a single western drug that can claim to treat and heal pancreas. So it you take western drugs all you are doing is trying to keep the sugar level at the required level. The main problem that has caused diabetes which is the non functioning of the pancreas is not attended to and thus the patient is either on insulin or on heavy drugs life long which in the end lead to kidney and liver problems.
For instance there are oils that can affect the hormonal balance in the body directly or indirectly. As a direct action, the oils work as phytohormones in the same way as that an animal or human hormone would work on the body. The oils also act indirectly by triggering a particular gland into action or by balancing hormonal secretion in some way. Thus black peeper, fennel, and juniper oils have a restoring and rejuvenating affect on the pancreas while carrots, eucalyptus, fennel, geranium, lemon oils in inhalation massage, bath or in the form of tea, are insulin stimulants. The basic cause of diabetes is being treated through such methods and that is why alternative treatment system like unani is slowly gaining recognition all through the world.