Original Research Article
Some Traditional medicinal plants and diabetes
Author(s): Mohammed Sayed Aly Mohammed*
Plants are natural antioxidants and effective herbal medicines, in part due to their anti-diabetic compounds, such as flavonoids, tannins, phenolic, and alkaloids that improve the performance of pancreatic tissues by increasing the insulin secretion or decreasing the intestinal absorption of glucose.
Diabetics are estimated to be several hundred millions worldwide, and this figure, together with the percentage of the population affected, is steadily increasing (around 6% in rich countries). certainly a better diagnosis of the diabetic state due to greater ease and wider detection geographically this metabolic-endocrine disorder in rich countries where the relative cost of food has dropped considerably and daily stress has increased, but also in many developing countries, it is even in these that the increase is the fastest of blood glucose disorders, certainly also an increase .. Read More»
