Resistance, pharmacology properties and nutritional value of a shrub from arid environments Atriplex halimus

Abstract

Several of experimental studies and molecular investigations highlight the power of herbs to evidence-based medicine. In Algeria, a number of medicinal plants have been studied for the treatment of diabetes such as Atriplex halimus L., xerohallophyte species, growing in arid and subarid areas, known for its hypoglycemic activity and widely used by the local population as remedy to treat diabetes mellitus. The objective of this review is to give value to this important traditional medicinal plant as antidiabetic, to set other biological and nutritional properties and its importance as resistant shrubs and good forage in severe environmental conditions.