Sodium Tungstate Can Also Treat Diabetes
Sodium tungstate is a kind of tungstate, and its chemical formula is Na 2 WO 4 . In nature, sodium tungstate is a colorless crystalline or white crystalline powder, and is often used as a plant protection, metal corrosion inhibitor and photocatalytic agent because of its non-toxic and environmental advantages. But is rarely known by people that sodium tungstate can also be used to treat diabetes. Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia. Hyperglycemia is caused by insulin secretion defects or impaired biological effects, or both. The consequences of diabetes are easy to cause eye, kidney, heart, blood vessels, nerves of chronic damage, dysfunction, such as high blood pressure, stroke, etc., is a healthy killer of middle-aged and elderly people. The traditional compound for the preparation of diabetes is vanadate, which is a simple inorganic vanadium compounds such as sodium vanadate, vanadyl sulfate etc.. Vanadium insulin has been widel...