Study to treat diabetes with young squash

After 30 days of eating 1g of squash / young / day, combined with drinking water from squash, white mice with diabetes begin to stabilize blood sugar. That is the initial research result of the research group of the Department of Biology - Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Sciences.

On November 14, Bachelor of Truong Hai Nhung - a young officer of Khoa Sinh, Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Sciences said.

Nhung said that this study originated from a folk remedy. People with diabetes should drink boiled water from immature squash (Benincasa Hispida). Therefore, her research team brought the squash fruit to study with the topic "Building diabetic pathology model on mice and investigating the ability to stabilize blood sugar of young squash fruit."

This study focused on building a model of diabetic animals and applying this model to test the ability to stabilize blood sugar of medicinal herbs, specifically, immature squash fruit. The animals used in this study are white, disease-free mice provided by HCMC Pasteur Institute. After being infected, the mice will eat juvenile squash for 30 days.

Within the limits of the survey time (one month), the research team initially found that feeding young squash with a dose of 1g / fish / day, combined with drinking water cooked from juvenile squash has a stable effect. Blood sugar of mice. From day 0 to day 20, the blood sugar of the infected mice tended to decrease and by the 30th day, the value of blood sugar of rats at a level not too high compared to the blood sugar of normal mice (75 ± 7mg / dl).

Diabetes is a group of syndromes related to blood sugar levels, and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), within the next 20 years, only in Asia, the number of people with diabetes is up to 330 million people.

This research topic was reported in the 6th scientific conference of the University of Natural Sciences (HCMC National University) held on November 14. This conference is organized for scientific research activities of the two academic years 2006-2007 and 2007-2008, with nearly 390 research topics at different levels.

From the results of the conference, excellent reports will be selected and criticized independently to publish into scientific articles in the Journal of Science and Technology Development, VNU-HCM.