Antioxidant plants and diabetes mellitus.
The incidence of diabetes mellitus (DM) is increasing rapidly and it is expected to increase by 2030. Other than currently available therapeutic options, there are a lot of herbal medicines, which have been recommended for its treatment. Herbal medicines have long been used for the treatment of DM because of the advantage usually having no or less side-effects. Most of these plants have antioxidant activities and hence, prevent or treat hard curable diseases, other than having the property of combating the toxicity of toxic or other drugs. In this review other than presenting new findings of DM, the plants, which are used and have been evaluated scientifically for the treatment of DM are introduced.
Department of Nephrology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Hamid
H
Nasri
Medical Plants Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Sharekord, Iran.
Hedayatollah
H
Shirzad
Department of Pathology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Azar
A
Baradaran
Medical Plants Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Sharekord, Iran.
Mahmoud
M
Rafieian-Kopaei
Diabetes mellitus; diabetic nephropathy; herbal drugs