Diabetes Therapy

Gymnema montanum leaves possess antidiabetic effect

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, January 12th, 2004

Gymnema montanum leaves possess an antidiabetic effect.

According to recent research published in the journal Pharmacological Research, "Gymnema montanum is widely used in ancient medicine for the ailment of various diseases. Oral administration of 200 mg/kg body weight (BW) of the alcoholic extract of the leaf for three weeks resulted in a significant reduction in blood glucose and an increase in plasma insulin, whereas the effect of 50 and 100 mg/kg BW was not significant."

"The alcoholic extract also resulted in decreased free radical formation in plasma of diabetic rats," reported Rajendran Ananthan and collaborators at...

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