Antidiabetic Medicinal Plants Used by the Basotho Tribe of Eastern Free State: A Review

Journal of Diabetes Research

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Balogun, Fatai Oladunni ^a   Tshabalala, Natu Thomas ^a   Ashafa, Anofi Omotayo Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; CANNABINOID DERIVATIVE; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; LIPOXYGENASE; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; CANNABIS; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ALOE VERA; ANTHOSPERMUM TERNATUM; ANTIDIABETIC ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOCYNACEAE; ASPARAGACEAE; ASPARAGUS ASPARAGOIDES; ASPHODELACEAE; ASTERACEAE; BRASSICACEAE; BULBINE NARCISSIFOLIA; CANNABACEAE; COMMELINA AFRICANA; COMMELINACEAE; COMMUNITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DICOMA ANOMALA; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ELEPHANTORRHIZA ELEPHANTINA; EMPODIUM PLICATUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHRINA ZEYHERI; FABACEAE; GAZANIA KREBSIANA; GLUCAGON BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GOVERNMENT; GUNNERA PERPENSA; GUNNERACEAE; HAPLOCARPHA SCAPOSA; HELICHRYSUM AUREUM; HERMANNIA PINNATA; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOXIDACEAE; HYPOXIS HEMEROCALLIDEA; LEGUME; LILIACEAE; MALVACEAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIMULUS GRACILIS; MORELLA SERRATA; MYRICACEAE; NONHUMAN; PENTANISIA PRUNELLOIDES; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; POLYGONACEAE; REVIEW; RHIZOME; RUBIACEAE; RUMEX LANCEOLATUS; SCROPHULARIACEAE; SISYMBRIUM THELLUNGI; SOTHO (PEOPLE); SOUTH AFRICA; XYSMALOBIUM UNDULATUM; ALOE; ASPARAGUS; COMMELINA; HYPOXIS; MIMULUS; RUMEX; XANTHORRHOEACEAE;

ALOE; APOCYNACEAE; ASPARAGUS PLANT; ASTERACEAE; CANNABIS; COMMELINA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FABACEAE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; HYPOXIDACEAE; HYPOXIS; MALVACEAE; MIMULUS; MYRICACEAE; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RUBIACEAE; RUMEX; SOUTH AFRICA; XANTHORRHOEACEAE;

EID: 84982813091     PISSN: 23146745     EISSN: 23146753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2016/4602820     Document Type: Review

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