Antioxidant plants and diabetes mellitus

作者：Nasri Hamid; Shirzad Hedayatollah; Baradaran Azar; Rafieian kopaei Mahmoud^*

来源：Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2015, 20(5): 491-502.

DOI：10.4103/1735-1995.163977

• Diabetes mellitus
• herbal drugs
• diabetic nephropathy

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.

• 出版日期2015-5