Diabète et phytothérapie : les faits

Botanic extracts have been widely used as medicinal agents to treat diabetes in traditional Chinese medicine, in ayurvedic medicine and in folk medicine and now in phytotherapy. Unfortunately there is a paucity of definitive clinical data concerning an improvement in carbohydrate metabolism in human despite exciting in vitro and in vivo experimental results. To date there is insufficient evidence to recommend the use of any herbal to treat hyperglycemia and their related risk factors or complications. However, clinical studies should be conducted with care, because the plants are filing many active molecules that can lead to new antidiabetic agents.