Traditional plant treatments for diabetes mellitus: pharmaceutical foods
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Traditional plant treatments for diabetes mellitus: pharmaceutical foods.
Recent decades have seen a resurgent interest in traditional plant treatments for diabetes. This has pervaded nutrition, the pharmaceutical industry and academic research, fuelled by a growing public interest and awareness of so-called complementary and natural types of medicine. Before the advent of insulin therapy in 1922, starvation diets and traditional plant treatments were the cornerstone...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Nutrition
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0007-1145,1475-2662
DOI: 10.1017/s0007114598001718