Antidiabetic and Antioxidant Properties of Waltheria indica L., an Ethnomedicinal Plant

Abstract

Since, time immemorial man has used various parts of plants in the treatment of many diseases. Each culture or community with in an area, whether large or small, has its own ethnobotanical perspective, which differs from one another 1, 2 . Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a clinical syndrome characterized by inappropriate hyperglycemia caused by the deficiency of insulin or by a resistance to the action of insulin at the