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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9375018" data-attributes="member: 93670">Prior to the 20s & 50s (insulin & dialysis became available) diabetes was a pretty awful end & was widely considered to be a wasting disease.Diabetes is complicated though because it's a two part problem.  The first part is insulin & blood sugar problems,  This one is tough since neither is poison until the levels are so far one way or the other that the diabetic has other problems.  The second part is the way those two being out of wack causes damage the kidneys & other parts of the body.  Some of those problems in the second part are poison.Spells like (lesser) restoration might have be a functional stand-in for dialysis, but that's a thing that needs fairly regular treatment like daily to weeklyish depending on type of dialysis& diabetes type/kidney function so they might expect to need it just as often.I highly doubt that cure spells would have much of an effect.  Even if a cure spell helped do things like stabilize blood sugar levels you still face the problem of those levels going back out of wack as you continue to digest food & such.  If cure wound helped  I doubt  anyone but those who could afford spells like wish & regenerate could afford theneed for a small  army of clerics devoted to casting it on them throughout the day.As to controlling blood sugar levels I'm not sure that any spell shy of stuff like wish & maybe regenerate would cover it even with a super permissive reading.Setting plays a part too.  A diabetic living in most parts of Khorvaire (Eberron) might have a steady supply of  blood sugar control potions working at least as well or better than modern insulin pumps & the ability to visit a Jorasco enclave where a magewright performs a dialysis type equivalent service</blockquote>

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