A Review on Antidiabetic Medicinal Plants

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder which is mainly characterized by hyperglycemia and arises bythe defects in insulin secretion or insulin action or both. It is categorized into two types, type-Iand type-II diabetes. The risk factors that are responsible for diabetes are genetic factor, obesity,hypertension. Conventionally many drugs are used for the treatment of diabetes such as biguanides, sulfonylureas, meglitinides etc. But the desired treatment is still not to be achieved. So, researches are going on for the development of alternate effective therapy against diabetes.Medicinal plants are promising ource and also very useful for the development of complimentary therapy. In India medicinal plants are widely used traditionally for the prevention and cure of diabetes. This review article consists the description of the herbs which are reported to have good antidiabetic property.