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PLANTS-BASEL
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants10040729
Keywords
antidiabetic plants; ethnomedicinal plants; medicinal plants; traditional plants; diabetes mellitus; antihyperglycemic
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This review presents a list of 143 ethnomedicinal plants used by ethnic and local people of Bangladesh for treating diabetes, with leaves being the most commonly used part, providing a starting point for the search and utilization of indigenous botanical resources to discover bioactive compounds for novel hypoglycemic drug development.
The use of conventional drugs to treat metabolic disorders and the pathological consequences of diabetes further increases the complications because of the side effects, and is sometimes burdensome due to relatively higher costs and occasionally painful route of administration of these drugs. Therefore, shifting to herbal medicine may be more effective, economical, have fewer side effects and might have minimal toxicity. The present review amasses a list of ethnomedicinal plants of 143 species belonging to 61 families, from distinctive domestic survey literature, reported to have been used to treat diabetes by the ethnic and local people of Bangladesh. Leaves of the medicinal plants were found leading in terms of their use, followed by fruits, whole plants, roots, seeds, bark, stems, flowers, and rhizomes. This review provides starting information leading to the search for and use of indigenous botanical resources to discover bioactive compounds for novel hypoglycemic drug development.
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