Hy Sugar is a diabetic formula or a formula that helps people that cannot deal with sugar properly. It strengthens the pancreas and liver and allows the body to use the insulin a little bit better. Diabetes is a very misunderstood illness. Most all the things that they attribute to diabetes… why you should 'be aware that you are diabetic,' or 'the signs of diabetes' or the 'things that are terrible about diabetes' are not the result of the illness but the result of overuse and overmedication of the insulin. If you can decrease the amount of insulin you are taking & still maintain proper blood sugar levels, you are much better off vs. taking a high dose of insulin, because the body becomes brittle, circulation decreases. You just have a plethora of problems because of the insulin use. One of the things going on with a diabetic...one of the things we are concerned about in the blood stream, is glucose & ketones. Ketones are fats. Glucose requires insulin to be able to utilize it in the cell properly. Fat does not require insulin to utilize it in the body. What happens is if there is a lot of glucose and a lot of insulin, the body will utilize the glucose (sugar)...the glucose vs. the ketones. The body prefers to burn fat, the heart prefers to burn fat, the big muscles of the body prefer to burn fat vs. sugar. If there is insulin and there is sugar it will burn the sugar first which is a contributing factor of arterial problems, heart problems and circulatory problems because the body is burning sugar instead of fat. Now you have to keep these levels proper, you cannot have high sugar and high fat or you have ketosis which is a life threatening illness. Many times these little magical machines that people check their blood with add the glucose and ketones together, this does not give an accurate reading of glucose in the blood stream. Some of them do not do that. If people are taking Hy Sugar and they do not have a noticeable change of sugar in their tests, it could be that they have one of those machines that add glucose and ketones together. The best way to isolate the ratio between key tones and glucose is with a Chem Strip (Whole Blood Chem Strip). Regardless of weather or not you work with a physician that is aware of how to deal with diabetes and treat it with herbs, or weather you're just taking Hy Sugar...if the amount of insulin you are taking is decreased your quality of life and length of life is significantly increased. Aside from the fact of whether you're using herbal or chemical therapy, whether you have a good diet or a bad diet, you should never quite taking insulin when your test indicates that your glucose is high. If you were diagnosed diabetic with merely one blood test, there is about a 75% chance that you are not. Particularly if you are only taking oral medications. Apparently it is the philosophy of traditional medicine that there is no distinction or difference between diabetes and hypoglycemia. Perhaps in defense of their methods they feel that hypoglycemia, if left untreated will become diabetes, so the distinction of these two problems is not necessary. I strongly disagree. For example: If I felt that there was beginning to be a weakness in your upper body and arms and I determined the therapy should be a wheel chair for you (after all it is proven that that will increase you upper body strength) that would be like taking insulin when you are not a diabetic…using a wheel chair when you can walk. If done long enough legs lose their muscle tone and they would be unable to stand or walk very well, taking insulin when you're not diabetic makes the body lazy in its own production of insulin. A blood test can reveal glucose levels, if it is high certainly you can be diabetic and this is very important to find out. But you could also be hypoglycemic. The only way to separate these two illnesses is with a 4 hour (not just a 2 hour) glucose tolerance test.                  Traditional use of the contents: Blueberry Lf  is high in sugars that do not need insulin secretions. Yarrow helps maintain blood sugar levels. Golden seal Rt. pulls high blood sugar levels down to normal. Dandelion Rt. helps the liver & pancreas. Cayenne is used as a catalyst to help the herb that it is combined with. Oregon Grape Rt.  Influences the glandular system.