Zeitschrift für Bioanalyse und Biomedizin

Current Trends of Plants Having Antidiabetic Activity: A Review

Abstract

Saminathan Kayarohanam and S Kavimani

Medicinal plants have been proposed as rich yet unexploited potential sources for antidiabetic drugs, even though used since ancient times for the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Many of the synthetic drugs were discovered either directly or indirectly from the plant source. The present study reviews of plants having antidiabetic property. Although many plants are recommendation, further pharmacological and chemical research should be done to elucidate the exact mechanism of hypoglycemic activity.