Herbs and herbal drugs have created interest among the people due to their various clinically proven effects and lack of side effect. Moreover the overuse of synthetic drug which result in higher incidence of adverse drug reaction, has motivated the human to revert to nature for safer herbal medicines. The current review focuses on Asanadi gana (group of drugs) and its potential in the treatment of diabetes mellitus, a major crippling disease worldwide leading to huge economic loss. The review describes, various aspect of Asanadi gana like active phytoconstituents having hypoglycemic action, pharmacological properties and mechanism of action of its ingredients. This review also focuses on the traditional therapeutic action of the asanadi gana dravyas mentioned in ancient classics. In various pharmacological studies, done in last few decades on the drugs of asanadi gana dravyas, it has been proved that almost all the constituents of asanadi gana, posses anti hyperglycemic, hypolipidemic, antioxidant and other therapeutic properties
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