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

Diabetes mellitus (DM) belongs to the group of five leading important diseases causing death globally and remains a major health problem in Africa. A number of factors such as poverty, poor eating habit, and hormonal imbalance are responsible for the occurrence of the disease. It poses a major healt...

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Main Authors:	Balogun, Fatai Oladunni, Tshabalala, Natu Thomas, Ashafa, Anofi Omotayo Tom
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4942634/

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spelling	pubmed-49426342016-07-19 Antidiabetic Medicinal Plants Used by the Basotho Tribe of Eastern Free State: A Review Balogun, Fatai Oladunni Tshabalala, Natu Thomas Ashafa, Anofi Omotayo Tom Review Article Diabetes mellitus (DM) belongs to the group of five leading important diseases causing death globally and remains a major health problem in Africa. A number of factors such as poverty, poor eating habit, and hormonal imbalance are responsible for the occurrence of the disease. It poses a major health challenge in Africa continent today and the prevalence continues to increase at an alarming rate. Various treatment options particularly the usage of herbs have been effective against diabetes because they have no adverse effects. Interestingly, South Africa, especially the Basotho tribe, is blessed with numerous medicinal plants whose usage in the treatment of DM has been effective since the conventional drugs are expensive and often unaffordable. The present study attempted to update the various scientific evidence on the twenty-three (23) plants originating from different parts of the world but widely used by the Sotho people in the management of DM. Asteraceae topped the list of sixteen (16) plant families and remained the most investigated according to this review. Although limited information was obtained on the antidiabetic activities of these plants, it is however anticipated that government parastatals and scientific communities will pay more attention to these plants in future research. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4942634/ /pubmed/27437404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4602820 Text en Copyright © 2016 Fatai Oladunni Balogun et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Balogun, Fatai Oladunni Tshabalala, Natu Thomas Ashafa, Anofi Omotayo Tom
spellingShingle	Balogun, Fatai Oladunni Tshabalala, Natu Thomas Ashafa, Anofi Omotayo Tom Antidiabetic Medicinal Plants Used by the Basotho Tribe of Eastern Free State: A Review
author_facet	Balogun, Fatai Oladunni Tshabalala, Natu Thomas Ashafa, Anofi Omotayo Tom
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title	Antidiabetic Medicinal Plants Used by the Basotho Tribe of Eastern Free State: A Review
title_short	Antidiabetic Medicinal Plants Used by the Basotho Tribe of Eastern Free State: A Review
title_full	Antidiabetic Medicinal Plants Used by the Basotho Tribe of Eastern Free State: A Review
title_fullStr	Antidiabetic Medicinal Plants Used by the Basotho Tribe of Eastern Free State: A Review
title_full_unstemmed	Antidiabetic Medicinal Plants Used by the Basotho Tribe of Eastern Free State: A Review
title_sort	antidiabetic medicinal plants used by the basotho tribe of eastern free state: a review
description	Diabetes mellitus (DM) belongs to the group of five leading important diseases causing death globally and remains a major health problem in Africa. A number of factors such as poverty, poor eating habit, and hormonal imbalance are responsible for the occurrence of the disease. It poses a major health challenge in Africa continent today and the prevalence continues to increase at an alarming rate. Various treatment options particularly the usage of herbs have been effective against diabetes because they have no adverse effects. Interestingly, South Africa, especially the Basotho tribe, is blessed with numerous medicinal plants whose usage in the treatment of DM has been effective since the conventional drugs are expensive and often unaffordable. The present study attempted to update the various scientific evidence on the twenty-three (23) plants originating from different parts of the world but widely used by the Sotho people in the management of DM. Asteraceae topped the list of sixteen (16) plant families and remained the most investigated according to this review. Although limited information was obtained on the antidiabetic activities of these plants, it is however anticipated that government parastatals and scientific communities will pay more attention to these plants in future research.
publisher	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4942634/
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Antidiabetic Medicinal Plants Used by the Basotho Tribe of Eastern Free State: A Review

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