Novel effect of medicinal plants on diabetes mellitus

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic non-communicable disease and 422 million people had DM in 2014.1 There is increasing in number of DM and about 642 million people will be expected to suffer from DM in 2040.2 It can be diagnosed by high blood glucose level (hyperglycemia), increased haemoglobinA1c level (HbA1c), fatigue, weight loss, polydipsia, polyuria Figure 1. There are Type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent, juvenile or childhood-onset), type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent, or adult-onset), gestational diabetes which occurs during pregnancy, impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and impaired fasting glycaemia (IFG) which are intermediate conditions between normal and diabetes and unclassified diabetes3. So, novel effects of medicinal plants are needed to discover for new therapeutic agents for DM Figure 2.