Materia medica with hypoglycemia and anti-diabetic effects
- Author:
Vu Ngoc Lo
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
hypoglycemia, diabetes
- MeSH:
Materia Medica;
Hypoglycemia;
Diabetes Mellitus;
Therapeutics
- From:Pharmaceutical Journal
2005;353(9):7-8
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
For treating diabetes, modern medicine used some drugs such as: insulin, sulfonylureas, biguanid, etc. However, long ago people had known to use medicine materials from natural herbs and animals with hypoglycemia and anti-diabetic effects: Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Breit. Araceae family; Lantana camara L., Verbenaceae family; Platycodon gradiflorum (Jacq.) A. DC., Campanulaceae family; Stevia rebaudiana (Bert) Hemsi, Asteraceae family; Gynostemma pentapbyllum (Thunb.) Mak. Cucurbitaceae family; Calendula officinalis L., Asteraceae family; Morus alba L., Moraceae family; Tinospora cordifolia Miers., Menispermaceae; Rheum, Polygonaceae family; Hordeum vulgare L., Poaceae family; Rehmannia glutinosa (Gaernt.) Libosch., Scrophulariaceae family; Hirudo, Hirudinidae family; Anacardium occidentale L.), Anacardiaceae family; Cordyceps sinensis (Berk.). Succ., Hepialidae family; Prunella vulgaris L.), Lamiaceae family; Allium cepa L., Alliaceae family.ew
