Well, symptom free and not under treatment, so diabetes is not considered cured. The reason for that convention is, of course, that if the patient is free of symptoms (and any other signs of the disease) for 5 years, if she gets it again, it cannot be know if it is a relapse, or a new instance (and it doesn't really matter).

I would agree that diabetes should be expected to be incurable by homeopathy, since it is due to an irreversible physical change in the body, so regardless of paradigm, you cannot expect it to be curable except by some, as yet hypothetical, reconstructive therapy.

Of course, the need for medicine and the progress of secondary effects can be treated, so under the homeopathic paradigm, this should be possible. The skeptic's comment on this is, of course, that the same effect can be achieved by good lifestyle advice.

I don't know if acute diabetes is an indicator for predisposition for type 2 diabetes. I think acute diabetes at some level is fairly universal in cases of severe trauma. It is certainly part of the usual post-operative syndrome.

Hans

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