Antidiabetic Plants Used By Tribals At Satpura Hills, Betul- District (M.P.) In Central India

Abstract

A survey was taken between the year of 2020-2023 in Satpura hills, Betul district of Madhya Pradesh, in Central India. It is very rich inbiodiversity specially for availability of various rare and medicinally important plant species. Gonds and Korkus are local tribal people.They use these plants for treatment of diabetes and its complications. In Ayurveda, Homeopathy and Unani medicine system, theseherbs play an important role in modern therapy. All herbal medicines are cost-effective and also free from serious side effects. We founda total of 26 herbal plants species distributed in 18 families in this Satpura region. These potent medicinal plants are used in diabetesor related complications. In this work, we mainly focused on hypoglycemic herbs used by tribals of Satpura hills.