Open AccessHerbal option for diabetes: an overview
Author(s) -
Amreen Fatima,
Palak Agrawal,
Prem Prakash Singh
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
asian pacific journal of tropical disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.208
H-Index - 33
ISSN - 2222-1808
DOI - 10.1016/s2222-1808(12)60216-3
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , intensive care medicine , blood sugar , insulin , traditional medicine , disease , diabetes management , type 2 diabetes , endocrinology
The most spreading disease nowadays is diabetes. In a fast changing world, a number of means\udto treat diabetes naturally are explored by experts and clinicians today. Long-term use of insulin\udand other oral hypoglycemic agent will create unwanted side effects, resulting uncontrolled\udincrease in blood sugar as well as complications with heart diseases also diabetics are highly\udprone to different types of microorganism and it will affect immune system of body. To avoid such\udproblems herbal medications has greater advantages. Instead of using these types of allopathic\udformulations, it is beneficial to use Ayurvedic formulations for better management of diabetes\udmellitus. In this review, around a hundred of herbal plants were showing hypoglycemic activity\udand still they are using as home remedies for the effective treatment for diabetes mellitus