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The role of medicinal plants in the treatment of diabetes: a systematic review
INTRODUCTION: Diabetes is a serious metabolic disorder and plenty of medical plants are used in traditional medicines to treat diabetes. These plants have no side effects and many existing medicines are derived from the plants. The purpose of this systematic review is to study diabetes and to summar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4768936/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26955456 http://dx.doi.org/10.19082/1832 |
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author | Kooti, Wesam Farokhipour, Maryam Asadzadeh, Zahra Ashtary-Larky, Damoon Asadi-Samani, Majid |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Diabetes is a serious metabolic disorder and plenty of medical plants are used in traditional medicines to treat diabetes. These plants have no side effects and many existing medicines are derived from the plants. The purpose of this systematic review is to study diabetes and to summarize the available treatments for this disease, focusing especially on herbal medicine. METHODS: Required papers about diabetes and effective plants were searched from the databases, including Science direct, PubMed, Wiley, Scopus, and Springer. Keywords in this study are ”medicinal plants”, “diabetes”, “symptom”, “herbal”, and “treatment”. Out of the 490 collected articles (published in the period between 1995 and 2015), 450 were excluded due to non-relevance or lack of access to the original article. RESULTS: Diabetes is mainly due to oxidative stress and an increase in reactive oxygen species that can have major effects. Many plants contain different natural antioxidants, in particular tannins, flavonoids, C and E vitamins that have the ability to maintain β-cells performance and decrease glucose levels in the blood. CONCLUSION: According to published results, it can be said that medical plants are more affordable and have less side effects compared synthetic drugs, and are more effective in treatment of diabetes mellitus. |
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spelling | pubmed-47689362016-03-07 The role of medicinal plants in the treatment of diabetes: a systematic review Kooti, Wesam Farokhipour, Maryam Asadzadeh, Zahra Ashtary-Larky, Damoon Asadi-Samani, Majid Electron Physician Systematic Review INTRODUCTION: Diabetes is a serious metabolic disorder and plenty of medical plants are used in traditional medicines to treat diabetes. These plants have no side effects and many existing medicines are derived from the plants. The purpose of this systematic review is to study diabetes and to summarize the available treatments for this disease, focusing especially on herbal medicine. METHODS: Required papers about diabetes and effective plants were searched from the databases, including Science direct, PubMed, Wiley, Scopus, and Springer. Keywords in this study are ”medicinal plants”, “diabetes”, “symptom”, “herbal”, and “treatment”. Out of the 490 collected articles (published in the period between 1995 and 2015), 450 were excluded due to non-relevance or lack of access to the original article. RESULTS: Diabetes is mainly due to oxidative stress and an increase in reactive oxygen species that can have major effects. Many plants contain different natural antioxidants, in particular tannins, flavonoids, C and E vitamins that have the ability to maintain β-cells performance and decrease glucose levels in the blood. CONCLUSION: According to published results, it can be said that medical plants are more affordable and have less side effects compared synthetic drugs, and are more effective in treatment of diabetes mellitus. Electronic physician 2016-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4768936/ /pubmed/26955456 http://dx.doi.org/10.19082/1832 Text en © 2016 The Authors This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) , which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Systematic Review Kooti, Wesam Farokhipour, Maryam Asadzadeh, Zahra Ashtary-Larky, Damoon Asadi-Samani, Majid The role of medicinal plants in the treatment of diabetes: a systematic review |
title | The role of medicinal plants in the treatment of diabetes: a systematic review |
title_full | The role of medicinal plants in the treatment of diabetes: a systematic review |
title_fullStr | The role of medicinal plants in the treatment of diabetes: a systematic review |
title_full_unstemmed | The role of medicinal plants in the treatment of diabetes: a systematic review |
title_short | The role of medicinal plants in the treatment of diabetes: a systematic review |
title_sort | role of medicinal plants in the treatment of diabetes: a systematic review |
topic | Systematic Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4768936/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26955456 http://dx.doi.org/10.19082/1832 |
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