A Review on the Antidiabetic Potential of Medicinal Plants

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus has long been seen as a substantial economic burden on patients, their families, and society. Impairment in blood sugar regulation has major health repercussions. Furthermore, untreated diabetes causes major chronic complications like blindness, renal failure, and heart failure, as well as an increase in associated mortality. New anti-diabetic medicines are being researched to help alleviate this issue. Conventional Anti-diabetic medications are beneficial, several synthetic drugs are available in the market to treat diabetes, but they are costly and come with inevitable adverse effects. Medicinal plants, on the other hand, may serve as an alternate source of anti-diabetic agents. According to the World Health Organization, 80 % of the population in underdeveloped nations still relies on traditional medicines or folk medicines, which are largely made from plants, for disease prevention or treatment. For instance, anti- proliferative, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory and anti-hyperglycemic effects. In order to find a natural anti-diabetic source that comes with less side effects, several studies have been conducted. The aim of this work is to review these studies and highlight the potential of plants when it comes to their anti-diabetic effect.

Promising Actions of Certain Medicinal Plants of Bangladesh against Diabetes and Oxidative Stress: A Review

“…Bangladesh is known as an agricultural country and is said to be a rich country of biodiversity. More than 500 medicinal plant species are found here that are effective in curing diabetes [13] [16] and contain numerous antioxidant properties like tannin, flavonoids, phenolic compounds, and alkaloids [3] [4] [18]. In diabetes, extemporaneous formation of free radicals has occurred on account of glucose auto-oxidation, and non-enzymatic protein glycation.…”