European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

ETHNOMEDICINAL VALIDATION AND LOOM FOR THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES: AN OVERVIEW OF THE MEDICINAL PLANTS

Shubham Yadu, Ankush Ranglani, Indrajeet Sahu and Gunjan Kalyani*

ABSTRACT

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder, which is characterized by abnormally high glucose level in blood and urine. According to World Health Organization (WHO), 9% of world's adult population suffer from diabetes and this percentage is accelerating. Many medicinal plants have been used for the treatment of diabetes amongst the people of Chhattisgarh since ages. The study deals with the documentation of the plants species with their parts used for the preparation of herbal formulations. Literature survey and ethnomedicinal analysis of the data revealed that many medicinal plant species belonging to different plant families are being used for curing diabetes. Most of these plant species belonged to Fabaceae family followed by Meliaceae, Rutaceae, Apocynaceae, Combretaceae, Solanaceae and others. Leaves were the most used plant part followed by root, fruit, bark and others for the treatment and cure of Diabetes. The work is promising and might help in the discovery of potential therapeutic molecule(s) for the control and cure of diabetes.

Keywords: Medicinal plants, Diabetes, Ethnomedicine, Traditional knowledge, Herbal formulations.