Evaluation of Antioxidant and anti Diabetic A...

Evaluation of Antioxidant and anti Diabetic Activity of Selected Siddha Herbal Plants

Author Name : Dr. Ramesh Kumar. R, Dr. Balasubramanian. P L

Siddha system of medicine is a highly evolved scientific indegeious medicine which is practicing widely from time immemorable. Siddha medicine formulations are in rich source of herbals, other than metal’s minerals and animal products. Third world countries like India are with huge amount of Diabetic Population. Because of our food habits and sedentary life style without physical strains. The emerging volcano is this non communicable metabolic disease that is Diabetes. Diabetes mellitus, commonly known as diabetes, is one of the world’s oldest diseases, in 1997, diabetes prevalence was introduced as a “basic health indicator” for member states by the WHO, which estimated in 1995 that the number of peopled with diabetes in the world would reach 300 million by 2025.