Abstract

A CRITICAL REVIEW OF AYURVEDIC ANTI DIABETIC PLANTS

Gupta Bhawana*

ABSTRACT

The anti-diabetic drugs from plants in current clinical use and their similar mechanism of action of herbal components are preferred mainly due to lesser side effects and low cost. So many medicinal plants with anti-diabetic activity related beneficial effects and of herbal drugs used in diabetes is pressurized. The present review focused on the some of the herbal plants and their medicinal uses have shown experimental or clinical anti-diabetic activity. The essential values of some plants have long been published, but a large number of them have remained unexplored to date. Therefore, there is a necessity to explore their uses and to ascertain their therapeutic properties. These are mainly Allium cepa, Anacardium occidentale, Andrographic paniculata, Momordica charantia, Azadirakta indica, Brassica oleraccia, Cinnamomum tamala and Withania sominifera mainly etiological factor implicated in the development of diabetes and it's complications.

Keywords: Anti-diabetic activity, medicinal plants, medicinal uses.