Abstract
The use of conventional drugs to treat metabolic disorders and the pathological consequences of diabetes further increases the complications because of the side effects, and is sometimes burdensome due to relatively higher costs and occasionally painful route of administration of these drugs. Therefore, shifting to herbal medicine may be more effective, economical, have fewer side effects and might have minimal toxicity. The present review amasses a list of ethnomedicinal plants of 143 species belonging to 61 families, from distinctive domestic survey literature, reported to have been used to treat diabetes by the ethnic and local people of Bangladesh. Leaves of the medicinal plants were found leading in terms of their use, followed by fruits, whole plants, roots, seeds, bark, stems, flowers, and rhizomes. This review provides starting information leading to the search for and use of indigenous botanical resources to discover bioactive compounds for novel hypoglycemic drug development.
Highlights
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the most prevalent, and overwhelming chronic non-communicable disease
We reviewed scientific articles published in journals by electronic databases (Google Scholar, PubMed, Medline, Web of Science, DOAJ, and Scopus) using specific keywords such as “medicinal plants”, “traditional plants”, “antidiabetic plants”, “antihyperglycemic plants”, “survey of antidiabetic plants”, “survey of medicinal plants”, “ethnobotanical survey”, “ethnomedicinal survey”, plus “Bangladesh”
Some parts or whole plants are cooked as vegetables and eaten with meals (Ficus hispida L., Momordica charantia L., Coccinia cordifolia L.) [16,31,50,56,67,73] and others are taken raw directly (Corchorus aestuans L., Tamarindus indica L., Hibiscus schizopetalus M.) [56,67,78,79]
Summary
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the most prevalent, and overwhelming chronic non-communicable disease. It is a major worldwide health problem, in third-world countries. The use of antidiabetic agents is limited because of their unfavorable impacts including hypoglycemic coma and liver and kidney complications [7,8]. It is practical in the current situation to search for new and stronger phytotherapy substances with efficacy. According to a few studies, several medicinal plants are useful in diabetes in distinct Bangladeshi local areas, divisions, and district [11,12,13,14]. This review compiled a list of antidiabetic medicinal plants from the survey reports of the whole country
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