Effects and safety profile of commonly used herbal anti-diabetic preparations

Abstract

Since ancient times, plants have been helping human beings to treat various ailments. Several medicinal plants are commonly being used in the management of diabetes particularly in the developing countries where resources are insufficient. Diabetes mellitus is metabolic disorders which has become very common with almost about 2.8% of the morbidity worldwide. In the present review, a special emphasis is given on some commonly used Ayurvedic medicinal plants having hypoglycemic properties and their anti-diabetic preparations. The review presents information regarding the scientific name (genus-species), family, preparation used, the evidence of hypoglycemic activity, the active agents and safety profile. This review could be useful to researchers, clinicians, pharmacists as well as common man from the society as a basic information for further development of anti-diabetic herbal remedies.

Cardioprotective study of Eriobotrya japonica leaf extracts against carbon tetrachloride induced toxicity in rats

“…The evergreen subtropical tree Eriobotrya japonica Lindl (loquat) belongs to family Rosaceae ( Younes & Sassine, 2016 ). Chinese folk medicine used loquat plant in the treatment of many ailments ( Liu et al, 2016 ), consequently different scientific studies was made on loquat plant proven some of its bioactivities such as anti-tumor( Ito et al, 2002 ), treatment of bronchial asthma ( Hirota & Suganuma, 2009 ), anti-inflammatory ( Cha et al, 2011 ); ( Selvamuthukumaran et al, 2020 ), antioxidant ( Delfanian et al, 2015 ), anti-diabetes( Suhani & Soubhik, 2018 ), cardio-protective( Chiang et al, 2018 ), anti-hyperglycemia ( Ahumada et al, 2017 ) and hepatoprotective ( Shahat et al, 2018 ).…”