It needs to specified that much of the advice in your piece is for overly HIGH blood sugar, and would be unadvised for the many people who have the opposite problem: Low blood sugar. Many products sold in the internet vaguely describe themselves as "balancing blood sugar" when in fact those herbs reduce blood sugar - great if you are in the first group of people, horrible if you are in the second. The phrase "balance blood sugar" shouldn't really be used for most herbs, as most of those that affect blood sugar don't really "balance it" from both extremes, they either bring it down or raise it (this is based on searches through unbiased botanical info from companies not selling those herbs). There may be a few that apparently can bring the body to the middle from either extreme, but there isn't as much info on those.