HERBAL DRUGS USED FOR THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES: A REVIEW
Keywords:
Medicinal plant, Antidiabetic, Antioxidant, Hypoglycemic, Diabetes, Herbal Drugs .Abstract
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the commonest endocrine disorder that affect more than 100 million people worldwide (6% of the population). It is cause by the absence or ineffective production of insulin by pancreas which results in increase or decrease in concentrations of glucose in the blood. The prevalence of diabetes mellitus is expected to reach up to 4.4% in the world by 2030. Among all type of diabetes, type 2 diabetes is main complication. Many diabetic patients are known to use herbal medicines with antidiabetic properties in addition to their mainstream treatments, which may present both a benefit as well as potential risk to effective management of their disease. In this review we evaluate the clinical and experimental literature on herb–drug interactions in the treatment of diabetes. A list of medicinal plants with proven antidiabetic and related beneficial effects and of herbal drugs used in treatment of diabetes is compiled. These include, Allium sativum, Eugenia jambolana, Momordica charantia, Ocimum sanctum, Phyllanthus amarus, Pterocarpus marsupium, Tinospora cordifolia, Trigonella foenum graecum and Withania somnifera.
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