Diabetes is a long-term illness linked to a metabolic problem. Diabetes patients have elevated blood sugar levels, which can be harmful to the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys, and nerves. The frequency of diabetes has been steadily rising over the last few decades. Although many medicinal plants and herbal remedies are widely utilized in different traditional medical systems to prevent and treat diabetes, synthetic medications are used to treat diabetic individuals in order to assist control the illness. They are said to have positive effects in preventing diabetes and reducing problems associated with diabetes. Phtyonutrients and phytoconstituents with protective or disease-preventive qualities are present in these plants. Traditional healers in many underdeveloped nations advise using herbal medications to treat diabetes due to the high cost of using modern medications.

Important characteristics:

gives distribution maps, pharmacological analyses, and botanical descriptions of prominent herbal and medicinal plants that are used to treat or prevent diabetes.explains the use of phytochemical and polyherbal remedies to treat diabetes and its associated problems.includes data on plants that can prevent diabetes and how their bioactive components might be used to develop new drugs.

An overview of the traditional medicinal uses of a few antidiabetic herbs is given in this volume of the Exploring Medicinal herbs series. For scientists, researchers, and students who work with medicinal plants or who specialize in ethnobotany, natural products, pharmacognosy, or other related fields of allied healthcare, this book offers invaluable information. Health policy officials, pharmaceutical corporations, and industrialists can also benefit from it.