Looks potentially useful.
Many of the  of plants listed are linked to  various traditional remedies.
Efficacy TBD in all cases, Caveat Emptor, ... .

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"Medicinal plants used for the treatment of diabetes and its long-term
complications."

~ 100 plants described. Free access. May have to enroll for free
transworld membership but probably not.

Transworld Research Network37/661 (2), Fort P.O.Trivandrum-695 023Kerala, I=
ndia

Plants in Traditional and Modern Medicine: Chemistry and Activity,
2010: 69-175ISBN: 978-81-7895-432-5

Editor: Eugene Kokkalou Polyxeni Alexiou and Vassilis J. Demopoulos
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece


            http://www.academia.edu/239988/MEDICINAL_PLANTS_USED_FOR_THE_TR=
EATMENT_OF_DIABETES_AND_ITS_LONG-TERM_COMPLICATIONS

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Extracted from intro ...

Up to now, many kinds of antidiabetic medicines have been developed
for the patients and most of them are chemical or biochemical agents
aiming at controlling or/and lowering blood glucose to a normal level.
Despite the impressive advances in health sciences and medical care,
there are many patients who are using alternative therapies alone or
complementary to the prescribed medication. Traditional plant remedies
or herbal formulations exist from ancient times and are still widely
used,despite all the controversy concerning their efficacy and safety
(Huxtable 1990;Fugh-Berman 2000), to treat hypoglycemic and
hyperglycemic conditions all over the world. It must be noted that
many ethno-botanical surveys on medicinal plantsused by the local
population have been performed in different parts of the world
andthere is a considerable number of plants described as antidiabetic.
In addition avariety of compounds have been isolated (alkaloids,
glycosides, terpenes,flovonoids, etc) but further studies need to be
done so as these =91leads=92 to develop into clinically useful medicines.
To date, metformin (a biguanide) is the only drug approved for
treatment of type II diabetes mellitus. It is a derivative of an
active natural product, galegine, isolated from the plant Galega
officinalis L. (Witters2001).The data presented below are based on a
diabetes literature database of antidiabetic medicinal plants (Babu et
al., 2006) (DiaMedBase: http://www. progenebio.in/DMP/Turnera.htm).
Also, the presented list of antidiabetic plants is enriched by data
from review papers (Bnouham et al., 2006; Li et al.,
2004;Andrade-Cetto & Heinrich 2005; Pulok et al., 2006).It must be
also noted that there are few references to the Ayurveda and
Siddhasystems (http://indianmedicine.nic.in/html/). Ayurveda
originated in India long back in pre-vedic period. Ayurved texts were
documented about 1000 years B.C.The term Ayurveda means =91Science of
Life=92. It deals with measures for healthful living during the life and
it has developed a wide range of therapeutic measures tocombat
illness. These principles of positive health and therapeutic measures
relate to physical, mental, social and spiritual welfare of human
beings. Thus, Ayurveda is considered as one of the oldest systems of
health care dealing with both the preventive and curative aspects of
life in a most comprehensive way and presents aclose similarity to the
WHO=92s concept of health propounded in the modern era.Siddha system is
one of the oldest systems of medicine in India. The term Siddhameans
achievements and Siddhars were saintly persons who achieved results in
medicine. This system is largely therapeutic in nature.

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