Open AccessAn Overview on Ethnopharmacology of Different Medicinal Plants of Odisha State of India in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus
Author(s) -
Deepankar Rath,
Gurudutta Pattnaik,
Biswakanth Kar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
asian journal of chemistry/asian journal of chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.145
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 0975-427X
pISSN - 0970-7077
DOI - 10.14233/ajchem.2021.23389
Subject(s) - traditional medicine , gymnema sylvestre , medicinal plants , withania somnifera , trigonella , diabetes mellitus , momordica , aloe vera , ethnobotany , catharanthus roseus , medicine , biology , botany , alternative medicine , pathology , endocrinology
Diabetes mellitus, commonly known as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorder associated withelevated blood glucose level. World health organization recommended the traditional and herbalremedies for the diabetic management. The application of herbal remedies is extremely increasedworldwide in the last three decades. Most of the synthetic drugs were discovered from the plant sourceout of different regions of the world to meet the demand. Several medicinal plants like Gymnemasylvestre, Pterocarpus marsupium, Catharanthus roseus, Trigonella foenum, Annona squamosa, Aeglemarmelos, Withania somnifera, Boerhavia diffusa, Boerhavia erecta, Momordica charantia, Cocosnucifera, Ricinus communis, Azadira chtaindica and Aloe vera have been reported to have varyinglevel of hypoglycemic property. One of the factors involved in the evolution of diabetic convolutionsis the impairment due to free radicals and hence a compound with antioxidant and antidiabetic potentialwould be more effective. The present review article was designed to provide an absolute data on thesemedicinal plant based remedies by using the traditional healers of Odisha state, India.