A REVIEW ON SOME POTENTIAL TRADITIONAL PHYTOMEDICINE WITH ANTIDIABETIC PROPERTIES
Swatantra Shukla, Swara Chaubey, Vineet Prajapati, Kanchan Sahni, Nidhi Gupta*, Rakesh Bharatia, Preeti Upadhyay
ABSTRACT
Diabetes is a chronic carbohydrate, lipid, and protein metabolic conditioncharacterised by elevated fasting and postprandial blood sugar levels. The globalprevalence of diabetes is expected to rise from 4% in 1995 to 5.4% by 2025.According to WHO, the majority of the burden will fall on underdevelopedcountries. Plants have been used as a source of medicine since prehistoric times.Plants are mentioned in Ayurveda and other Indian literature as being used in thetreatment of many human illnesses. There are over 45000 plant species in India, andthousands of them have been claimed to have therapeutic characteristics. In recentdecades, research on plants described in ancient literature or used historically fordiabetes has revealed anti-diabetic properties.
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