Author(s)

Krishna Bihari Pandeya, Indra Prasad Tripathi, Mahendra Kumar Mishra, Neelesh Dwivedi, Yogesh Pardhi, Arti Kamal, Priyanka Gupta, Nupa Dwivedi, Chinmayi Mishra

Faculty of Science & Environment, Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramoday Vishwavidyalaya, Chitrakoot, India.
Reseach Assistant, Tropical Forest Research Institute (TFRI), Jabalpur, India.
Research Scholar, Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Vishwavidyalaya, Chitrakoot, India.
Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Vishwavidyalaya, Chitrakoot, India.

Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease reaching an epidemic proportion in many parts of the world. By the year 2025 it is expected that 333 million people of the world will have diabetes as their main ailment. As today, India assumes the position of the diabetic capital of the world with the highest percentage of its population suffering from diabetes. It is pathetic to mention that in proportion to its people suffering from diabetes, this country has very weak spending power for treatment because of wide spread poverty. Therefore, this review is aimed at opening up new vistas in realizing the therapeutic potential of Ayurveda in treatment of diabetes and other chronic diseases. All drugs which we have discussed in this review have a significant role in therapy of diabetes mellitus.

Diabetes Mellitus; Metabolic Disease; Ayurveda; Hyperglycemia; Synthetic Drugs; Herbal Drugs; Metallo Therapy; Oral Hypoglycemic Drugs

K. Pandeya, I. Tripathi, M. Mishra, N. Dwivedi, Y. Pardhi, A. Kamal, P. Gupta, N. Dwivedi and C. Mishra, "A Critical Review on Traditional Herbal Drugs: An Emerging Alternative Drug for Diabetes," International Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2013, pp. 1-22. doi: 10.4236/ijoc.2013.31001.