Herbal medicines derived from medicinal plants are used by about 60% of the world’s population. This review focuses on some medicinally rich plants used in the treatment of diabetes worldwide. Diabetes is an important metabolic disorder and at present, approximately 18-20 million people are diabetic in India. Diabetic complications like nephropathy, retinopathy, coronary artery disease, stroke, Peripheral vascular disease etc are affected more rapidly not in mega-city but also urban area in India. Cost of the treatment of these complications are also hiked day by day. Insulin and Oral hypoglycemic agents which are marketed for diabetes are costly than herbal medicine and it is very difficult to bear for urban people. In this paper medicinal plants with proven antidiabetic and related beneficial effects used in treatment of diabetes are discussed. These Plants are Emblica officinalis ,Azadirachta indica, Allium sativum, Annona squamosa, Aegle marmelos, Elephantopus scaber, Musa Paradisiaca, Andrographis Paniculata, Mangifera indica.
SOURCE: PHARMATUTOR.ORG
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