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The Chemistry of Antidiabetic Plants

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A great many plant species that demonstrate activity against hyperglycemia are listed in literature. They are known to contain classes of compounds with biological activities including terpenoids, carotenoids, flavonoids, and others such as alkaloids and glycosides. These plants are variously reported to show antidiabetic effects. Some of the plant sources commonly found around various continents include aloe vera, Amaranthus tricolor, Anacardium occidentale, Momordica charantia (bitter gourd), Moringa oleifera, Gongronema latifolia, Vernonia amygdalina, Tridax procumbens, Phyllanthus amarus, Phyllanthus niruri, Piper longum, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Ocimum gratissimum, Mangifera indica, etc.

However, these plants do not exert their effects by their mere beauty and form but by their constituents of chemical entities in structural orders that behooves on them these medicinal capabilities. This review attempts to highlight some classes of plant natural products or secondary metabolites and some specificities that render them the hidden medicines for the management and treatment of diabetes in the floral factories, found everywhere in our environment.

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Orgah, E.A. et al. (2022). The Chemistry of Antidiabetic Plants. In: Ramamoorthy, S., Buot, I.J., Chandrasekaran, R. (eds) Plant Genetic Resources, Inventory, Collection and Conservation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7699-4_14

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