Indonesian plants with potential as an anti-diabetes mellitus agent

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a degenerative disease that continues to increase in numberin Indonesia and is a disease that is spread throughout the world due to unbalancednutritional conditions. Treatment of diabetes mellitus is a chronic and lifelongtreatment. Treatment of diabetes mellitus, such as the use of insulin and oralantihyperglycemia drugs, is relatively expensive, is used for a long time and can causeunwanted side effects. There are many plants that have potential as antihyperglycemiadrugs. One of the active compounds that act as antihyperglycemia isflavonoids.Flavonoids derived from various types of plants studied are thought to actas antihyperglycemic agents. Flavonoids are known to have the ability to scavenge freeradicals or act as natural antioxidants. The antioxidant activity of flavonoids is relatedto phenolic –OH groups which can capture or neutralize free radicals (such as ROS orRNS). Flavonoids can play a role in pancreatic tissue damage caused by DNA alkylationdue to alloxan induction as a result of improving the morphology of the rat pancreas(Prameswari and Widjanarko, 2014).