Weeds as alternative useful medicinal source: Mimosa pudica Linn. on diabetes mellitus and its complications
Diabetes mellitus is one of the major reasons for mortality worldwide and numerous scientific studies are going on to find plausible solutions to overcome and manage diabetes and its related infirmities. Traditional medicines use medicinal plants as anti-diabetic agents and despite being a distur...
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Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland
2014
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| Summary: | Diabetes mellitus is one of the major reasons for mortality worldwide and numerous
scientific studies are going on to find plausible solutions to overcome and manage diabetes and its
related infirmities. Traditional medicines use medicinal plants as anti-diabetic agents and despite
being a disturbing weed to farming land Mimosa pudica Linn. has a high traditional usage for
various purposes including anti-diabetic complications. The objective of this article is to accumulate
and organise literatures based on traditional claims and correlate those with current findings on the
use of M. pudica in the management of diabetes mellitus. M. pudica is a creeping perennial shrub
which is a common weed widely distributed in Southeast Asia specially in India, Bangladesh,
Malaysia, China, Philippine etc. This plant has various species of which M. pudica is a well
recognised plant of medicinal origin which has been traditionally used as folk medicine in India,
Bangladesh and Philippine, Chinese, herbal and siddha medicines. It has wound healing, antidiabetic,
anti-diarrhoeal, antimicrobial, anti-cancer, anti-infections, anti-worm, anti-proliferative,
anti-snake venom, anti-depressant and anxiolytic etc. activities. The objective of this article is to
provide up-to-date information on the traditional and scientific studies based on this plant on the
frontier of diabetes mellitus. The methodology followed was to methodically collect, organise and
chart the recent advances in the use of M. pudica in diabetes and its related complications like
vascular complications, diabetic wound, hyperlipidemia etc. Various scientific studies and traditional
literatures clearly support the use of M. pudica as an anti-diabetic agent among other uses. So far, the
anti-diabetic compounds have not been isolated from this plant and this can be a good scientific
study for the future anti-diabetic implications. |
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