A REVIEW ON HYPOGLYCAEMIC ACTIVITY OF DIFFERENT EXTRACTS OF VARIOUS MEDICINAL PLANTS
AbstractDiabetes mellitus is the common metabolic disorder seen in 2.8% of the world’s population. It is expected to cross 5.4% by 21st century. It is one of the causes of death in this 21st century. Since many years, herbal medicines are used as a source of medicine in Ayurveda and also in some traditional systems of medicine. Ayurveda and other traditional systems have textual evidence about the uses of medicinal plants to cure various types of diabetes in human beings. Thousands of plant species has shown the therapeutic efficacy to control diabetes. As the usage of natural medicinal plants can have lesser side effects when compared with the synthetic drugs. This review mainly aims to know about various plant species in India and all around the world that are used in curing Diabetes Mellitus
Article Information
2
3173-84
635
2033
English
IJPSR
K. Rajya Lakshmi*, M. Supraja, M. Mounika and P. Srinivasa Babu
Vignan Pharmacy College, Vadlamudi, Guntur (Dt), A.P, India
drkrl3579@gmail.com
28 March, 2016
29 June, 2016
08 July, 2016
10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.7(8).3173-84
01 August 2016