Alternative Medicines for Diabetes Management Advances in Pharmacognosy and Medicinal Chemistry

Apart from diet and exercise, the strategic use of different classes of prescribed or non-prescribed xenobiotic compounds for the restoration of euglycemic levels in the body is well known. The ongoing rivalry between the recommended usage of allopathic medicines versus ayurvedic remedies has encouraged many researchers to focus their studies on thoroughly isolating and characterizing the extracts from different parts of plants and then evaluating their relative activities via in vitro, in vivo and in some cases clinical studies. 

Alternative Medicines for Diabetes Management: Advances in Pharmacognosy and Medicinal Chemistry provides a holistic view of all oral therapies for diabetes mellitus that are available to the public by removing the silos and stigmas that are associated with both allopathic and ayurvedic medicines.

Additional Features Include:

• Highlights the potential role of dietary and medicinal plant materials in the prevention, treatment, and control of diabetes and its complications. 
• Educates readers on the benefits and shortcomings of the various present and potential oral therapies for diabetes mellitus. 
• Allows quick identification and retrieval of material by researchers learning the efficacy, associated dosage and toxicity of each of the classes of compounds.
• Presents the history, nomenclature, mechanisms of action and shortcomings for each of the various sub-classes of allopathic therapeutants for diabetes mellitus and then introduces ayurvedic medicines. 
• Section C discusses various metallopharmaceuticals and provides a holistic view of all available and potential therapies for the disease.

Allopathic Medicines
Biguanides
Sulfonylureas
Meglitinides
Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors
DPP-4 Inhibitors
Thiazolidinedione
SGLT2 Inhibitors

Ayurvedic Medicines
Abelmoschus esculentus (AE)
Ageratum conyzoides (AgC
Allium cepa (AC)
Allium sativum (AS)
Aloe barbadensis miller (ABM)
Annona muricata (AM)
Apium graveolens (AG)
Azadirachta Indica (AI)
Bidens pilosa (BiP)
Bixa orellana (BO)
Brassica juncea (BJ)
Bryophyllum pinnatum (BP)
Capparis spinosa (CaS)
Carica papaya (CaP)
Catharanthus roseus (CR)
Cecropia obtusifolia (CeO) and Cecropia peltata (CeP)
Centella asiatica (CeA)
Chromolaena odorata (CO)
Citrus aurantiifolia (CiA)
Citrus limon (CiL)
Citrus paradisi (CiP)
Citrus sinensis (CiS)
Coriandrum sativum (CoS)
Crescentia cujete (CrC)
Cucumis sativus (CS)
Cucurbita ficifolia (CF) and Cucurbita pepo (CP)
Curcuma longa (CL)
Cymbopogon citratus (CC)
Euphorbia hirta (EH)
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (HRS)
Justicia secunda (JS)
Lantana camara (LC)
Leonotis nepetifolia (LN)
Mangifera indica (MI)
Mentha
Mimosa pudica (MP)
Momordica charantia (MC)
Morinda Citrifolia (MoC)
Moringa oleifera (MO)
Murraya koenigii (MK)
Neurolaena lobata (NL)
Ocimum gratissimum (OG) and Ocimum tenuiflorum (OT)
Panax ginseng (PG) and Panax quinquefolius (PQ)
Parthenium hysterophorus (PaH)
Peperonia pellucida (PP)
Phyllanthus amarus (PA)
Scoparia dulcis (SD)
Senna italica (SI)
Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (SJ)
Syzygium cumini (SC)
Tamarindus indica (TI)
Tournefortia hirsutissima (TH)
Urena lobata (UL)
Zingiber officinale (ZO)

Metallopharmaceuticals
Vanadium
Chromium
Zinc
Cobalt
Tungsten
Molybdenum
Conclusion, Acknowledgements, Bibliography, Abbreviations, Glossary, Index