Homeopathy and Type 2 Diabetes

So, I have type 2 diabetes.

I'm managing my condition mostly through diet, fasting and exercise because I'm a homeopath, and because in the past I've had horrendous side effects from any of the metabolic/endocrine related allopathic medications out there.

I was diagnosed with T2 about 10 years ago.

I've tried a lot of homeopathy for my condition. None of the chronic remedies I've taken for my case have helped. Neither have any of the therapeutic specifics I've tried. I have been able to manage my diabetes with diet and exercise, but the long term trend is not positive. Recently I had to cut pretty much all starches out of my diet. I eat various meats and cheeses, legumes, and non starchy vegetables. Everything organic as much as I can. But recently I've had days here and there where my blood sugar has normalized.

It's kind of freaky to me. As soon as I think I'm onto something, my blood sugar goes back to my baseline.

I wish I could pin down the cause. But I have a strong hunch, which may lead to a chronic remedy in the near future. But that's going to apply specifically to my case; this is how it is in homeopathic medicine, it's individualized.

There are number of specific therapeutic remedies in homeopathy for T2 diabetes. Syzygium jambolanum (Boericke) is one of them. But they are not very likely to work with diabetes cases generally. There are 17 remedies in the diabetic rubric in my analytic software. The difficulty in homeopathy with treating diabetes is that the actual physical symptoms are very subtle and general/broad. Homeopathy works on matching specific symptoms between the medicine and the client. The more specific, the better. T2 diabetes is a real tough nut because without glucose meters and A1C tests, most folks with it don't know they have the issue. Meaning there are few observable symptoms until the illness is fairly advanced. Unless you like peeing on anthills and watching the ants' behavior.

So the problem is not the medicines themselves. I believe that homeopathy can help T2 Diabetes, despite my own failure to find the right one(s). The problem is the lack of symptoms in T2 diabetes.

There is a subset approach to homeopathy called "organotherapy" which was created by a British homeopath in the early years of the 20th century, J. Compton Burnett, which might offer some possible approaches. Burnett was an anatomist and physiologist and he combined that knowledge with homeopathy with very good results. My thinking below is not unlike Burnett's approach, and it is a ways from being strictly classical.

For a long time I have strongly suspected that, at least in my case, there is a strong chronic emotional connection to my diabetes. T2 diabetes is caused when the cells of the body become less responsive to the hormone, insulin, produced by the pancreas. Insulin normally tells the cells to start converting glucose into useable energy, i.e. ATP, which lowers blood sugar levels.

But there is another hormone which effectively blocks the effects of insulin. That hormone is cortisol. Cortisol is one of the hormones produced by the activation of the fight or flight reflex. People who are perpetually in that mode, i.e. anxious or actively afraid or watchful, OR extremely shameful of fearful of shame situations, can exhibit chronic high cortisol levels, which in turn over decades may lead to insulin resistance and T2 diabetes.

There are other complicating modern factors, such as glyphosate exposure.

Can homeopathy get to this disease? I think homeopaths working with T2 diabetes cases need to focus on the visible symptoms related to cortisol activation and insulin resistance, and we need to find out the likely etiology of this disease.