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Diabetes is, nowadays, one of the most important diseases that affect humanity. World Health Organization has stimulated the research of medicinal plants to be used in diabetes treatment once this disease will affect around 300 million people. Fitotherapy can act as optional form of therapy, considering its lower cost, and its benefits can be added to conventional therapy. Innumerable plants had their hipoglicemic effects experimentally proven. However, many of them had not been validated as medicinal by scientific protocols. This paper objective to identify medicinal plants used in Brazil as antidiabetic, detaching some of them that had had hipoglicemic effect scientifically proven. 65 taxa have been related, which belong to 35 families. By the bibliographical survey one evidenced that Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh. (bardana), Eucalyptus globulus Labill. (eucalipto), Syzygium jambolanum DC. (jambolao), Bidens pilosa L. (picao), Salvia officinalis L. (salvia) had been cited 7 times; Urtica spp. (urtiga), 9 times; Allium sativum L. (garlic), Phyllanthus niruri L. (quebra-pedra) 10 times; Baccharis trimera DC. (carqueja) and Anacardium occidentale L. (cashew tree) 11 times; and Bauhinia forficata Link. (pata-de-vaca), 17 times. The leaf was the most used organ in the preparations. Studies had demonstrated that extracts of 'bardana', 'garlic' and 'carqueja' had revealed efficient as complementary therapy in diabetic. Experiments point with respect to the validity of the use of 'pata-de-vaca' in this treatment. Clinical study showed the hipoglicemic effect of the bark of 'cashew tree'. The results demonstrate the importance of phytomedicine as helping in the

DIABETES – UTILIZAÇÃO DE PLANTAS MEDICINAIS COMO FORMA OPCIONAL DE TRATAMENTO