Now, diabetes clinic at Siddha Research Centre

November 14, 2014 11:48 am | Updated 11:48 am IST - CHENNAI:

Arumbakkam-based Siddha Central Research Institute will launch a special outpatient service on Friday to mark World Diabetes Day.

The service will be offered every Monday from 8 a.m. till noon.

Further research

The institute will also take up further research on one of its medicinal product — the D5 choornam — used to treat diabetes.

“We conducted a year-long study on a group of patients that included only those who had been detected with diabetes within six months of its onset. We found that the medicine was effective on the control group. From tomorrow we have decided to provide the choornam to all patients coming to the clinic but we will continue our research to test the medicine’s efficacy on chronic diabetics,” said institute director general R.S. Ramaswamy.

The study was conducted in three centres — Chennai, Puducherry and Palayamkottai.

The next step in the study, which will be launched on Friday, will include long-term diabetic patients with diabetes-related complications, Dr. Ramaswamy said.

The institute is a unit of Department of AYUSH.

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