South Korean researchers may have found a way to treat diabetes using a specific kind of grass.<br />They say their research has shown positive results in animal testing... and they are keen to see whether it has a similar effect on people.<br />Cho Sung-min reports. <br />One out of ten people in Korea is diagnosed with diabetes.<br />The disease is currently incurable, but treatable and highly preventable, as those who are living with diabetes need to go through a lifetime of medicine including insulin injections.<br /><br />However, local researchers may have found a possible answer.<br />They extracted a substance called CGE from a specific type of grass called centipede grass.<br />The team says nearly four grams of CGE could be extracted from one-hundred grams of grass.<br />But they found a new way to make the yield seven times bigger,...by exposing the grass to radiation. <br /><br />Experiments conducted on animals proved that CGE helps treat both type 1 and 2 diabetes. The tests in fact have open a wide range of possibilities of abolishing injections from diabetes treatments. <br /><br /><br />"CGE doesn't need to be injected. Using the substance can reduce many side effects that existing medicines to treat diabetes have."<br /><br />The team is currently working on ways to further develop the substance into commercially available medicine.<br />Cho Sung-min, Arirang News. <br />
