Antidiabetic Plants in Traditional Medicines: A Review

Abstract

Plant extracts and their constituents are one of the potential approaches those are used for the prevention and treatment of a huge number of disorders. Herbal products and food supplements are the chief components of plant extracts, those are helpful in retaining healthiness, performing against a range of diseases and they support the quality of being. Diabetes mellitus is, a multi-factorial chronic metabolic ailment causes high blood glucose level, one of them. The systematic researches of traditional herbal therapies for diabetes give precious leads for the progress of alternative medicines and therapeutic approaches. Alternatives are evidently required due to the incapability of modern approaches to organize all of the pathological aspects of diabetes, and the poor availability and high cost of existing therapies for several country population. This review summarizes traditional plants with verified antidiabetic potential in pre-clinical and clinical studies for synergistic management of diabetes.

Seasonal Changes in the Metabolic Profiles and Biological Activity in Leaves of Diospyros digyna and D. rekoi “Zapote” Trees

“…Apropos of naphthoquinones, they are important secondary metabolites having therapeutic value that are commonly found in various Diospyros species [48]. In this context, the detection of the trigonelline–nicotinic acid combination, only detected in D. rekoi LEs was also interesting, considering that trigonelline, a pyridine alkaloid derived from nicotinic acid [49], has been reported to have a potent anti-diabetic effect, similar to naphthoquinones [50,51]. Approximately 100 trigonelline-forming plant species have been identified, including D. mollis [49,52].…”

Zirconium-Treated Fine Red Mud Impregnated in Zn-Alginate Beads as Adsorbent in Removal of Phosphate from Water

“…Our research group successfully developed methods for the removal of various pollutants such as Cr(VI) [1][2][3][4], Zn(II) [5], Al(III) [6][7][8][9], F - [10][11][12][13][14][15], NO 2 - [16,17], NH 3 [18][19][20], PO 4 3- [21,22] and dyes [23][24][25] based on the adsorbents derived from various plants.…”

Untitled

“…INTRODUCTION: Multifactorial metabolic diseases, for example, diabetes build up several complications such as immunodeficiency, hyperlipidemia, and hepatic toxicity, etc. 1 Fact from ethnopharmacological studies have shown that Citrullus colocynthis is traditionally used as antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, hepatoprotective, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, antioxidant and anticancer agent 2,3 . The proposed theory is phytosomes of crude drug extract of Citrullus colocynthis will be more effective and safe as an anti-diabetic agent.…”