Uses for Gymnema
- Suppress the taste of sweet foods, and consequently the desire to eat
- Reduce metabolic effect of sugar by preventing the intestines from absorbing sugar molecules during digestion
- Treatment of diabetes
- Snakebite treated by powder or paste of the root applied to the wound
- Fever treated with oral administration of half announce to an ounce ( one part in 10) of leaves
- Swollen glands treated with an external application of triturated leaves mixed with castor oil