A database for medicinal plants used in the treatment of diabetes. Full text articles can be downloaded from the articles link. Indian, medicinal plants, diabetes, text data mining, database, biomedical, literature. Plants have been the primary source of drugs and many of the currently available drugs have been directly or indirectly derived from plants. Antidiabetic potential of two medicinal plants used in gabonese folk. Antidiabetic activity and phytochemical screening of. Abstract diabetes mellitus is a lifestyle disorder that. Metformin, for example, is an oral hypoglycemic agent isolated from medicinal plant galega officinalis that was used historically in medieval europe for the treatment of diabetes 11. More than 800 plant species are reported as antidiabetic. Antidiabetic potential of plants used in bulgarian folk medicine and. Data of antidiabetic plants on clinicalexperimental trials were collected from literature sources. Natural products as potential sources of antidiabetic drugs.
Plants have been a good source of medicine for the treatment of various type of disease, still many plants and active compounds obtained from plants have not been well characterized. Over 400 plants as well as 700 recipes and compounds have been scientifically evaluated for type 2 diabetes treatment. The database also contains detailed information about the plant raw material supplier industries in india with respective products. A detailed account of 88 plant species has been collected. More investigations must be carried out to evaluate the exact mechanism of action of medicinal plants with antidiabetic and insulino mimetic activity. Plants and other natural sources have been useful in discovering drugs for treating patients with diabetes mellitus. Plant natural products in antidiabetic drug discovery harvey, a. The antidiabetic plant species which has yet not been fully explored needs detailed investigation so that these. Mechanistic data about hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic action are presented. A database of antidiabetic plant species of family asteraceae.
Integrated database for antidiabetic and anticancer medicinal plants. It is the fourth leading causes of death in the most developed countries and there in substantial evendiced that it in epidemic in many developing and newly industrialized nations. The database describes medicinal plants having antidiabetic activity with other related information including relevant references. Article pdf available june 20 with 1,552 reads how. For instance, metformin, the most popular antidiabetic drug nowadays, was developed based on a biguanide compound isolated from french lilac. The earliest recorded attempt to treat diabetes mellitus dates back more than 3,500 years and the treatment used was of plant origin 10. The role of metabolomics, metabolite profiling, and dereplication of data for the highthroughput discovery of novel antidiabetic agents is. Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common noncommunicable diseases globally. More number of plant and plant products have been scientifically tested and reported to posses anti diabetic activity 2635 examples of herbal medicines with proven anti diabetic activity plant part used.
Plants such as allium cepa, clerodendron phlomoides, cinnamomum tamala, coccinia indica, enicostemma littorale, ficus bengalensis, gymnema sylvestre leaves, momordica charantia, pterocarpus marsupium and syzygium cumini have a great antidiabetic potential, which have already been subjected to the clinical trial are included in the list, whereas some marketed herbal formulations diasulin. An overview on antidiabetic medicinal plants having. School of genomics and bioinformatics, department of advanced zoology and biotechnology, loyola college, chennai 600 034, tamil nadu, india. However, the compounds which can have antidiabetic properties are not known. A number of active components were isolated from medicinal plants for direct use as drugs, or act as a lead compound or pharmacological agents. Herbal drugs constitute an important part of traditional medicine and literature shows that there are more than 400 plant species showing. A database of antidiabetic plant species of family asteraceae, euphorbiaceae, fabaceae, lamiaceae and moraceae.
Plant species with antidiabetic properties plant based medicinal products have been known to man since ancient times, subbulakshmi and naik, 2001. Database on antidiabetic indigenous plants of tamil nadhu, india. These data were supplemented by literature information 17, 23, 4749. Anti diabetic medicinal plants open access journals. Antidiabetic herbal formulations are considered to be more effective for treatment of diabetes. Tamil people have been listed along with plant parts used and its active chemical constituents. Some selected medicinal plants with antidiabetic potentials. Plant species with antidiabetic properties plantbased medicinal products have been known to man since ancient times, subbulakshmi and naik, 2001. Active constituents of any medicinal plant define the efficacy and safety of treatment to control hyperglycemia. Understanding glycaemic control and current approaches for. Over 1200 plant species are reported in ethnomedicine for treating diabetes and these represents an important and promising source for the. The plants were collected during the short dry season.
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