A Review on Some Antidiabetic Plants of India
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The control over diabetes mellitus depends upon the availability of insulin. Various efforts have been made in the recent past to control / check it. There is an increasing demand to use the natural antidiabetic agents. The literature pertaining to antidiabetic herbs is scattered. The present article is a conglomeration of available indigenous literature. It gives an additional information of list of antidiabetic plants which have not been discussed by Nagarajan et al(76) and Handa et al(45). It also presents some common plants used in diabetes, and the future of hypoglycaemic herbal drugs.
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