title: Indigenous plant medicines for health care: treatment of Diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia.
abstract: Medicinal plants have played an important role in treating and preventing a variety of diseases throughout the world. Metabolic syndrome had become a global epidemic, defined as a cluster of three of five criteria: insulin resistance and glucose intolerance, abdominal obesity, hypertension, low high-density cholesterol, and hypertriglyceridemia. The current review focuses on Indian medicinal plant drugs and plants used in the treatment of diabetes and hyperlipidemia. Though there are various approaches to reduce the ill-effects of diabetes and hyperlipidemia and its secondary complications, plant-based drugs are preferred due to lesser side effects and low cost. The current review focuses on twenty-three medicinal plants used in the treatment of Diabetes mellitus and nine medicinal plants used in the treatment of hyperlipidemia. The wealth of knowledge on medicinal plants points to a great potential for research and the discovery of new drugs to fight diseases, including diabetes and hyperlipidemia.
authors.affiliation: Arihant School of Pharmacy and Bio-Research Institute, Adalaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. Electronic address: parikhnisha83@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Nisha H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Parikh
authors.affiliation: Arihant School of Pharmacy and Bio-Research Institute, Adalaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
authors.forename: Palak K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Parikh
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University, Gujarat, India.
authors.forename: Charmy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kothari
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D006949:Hyperlipidemias / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism; D007194:India; D008517:Phytotherapy; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000032:analysis / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D010936:Plant Extracts
keywords: Diabetes mellitus; Hyperlipidemia; Medicinal plants; Treatment