Herbal Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Chemistry, Biology, and Potential Application of Selected Plants and Compounds
Figure 2
Mechanisms underlying herbal therapies using antidiabetic plants and phytocompounds. (a) Different types of medicinal herbs can be classified based on their modes of action such as insulin resistance (type 1 herbs), -cell function (type 2 herbs), and GLP-1 (type 3 herbs) and glucose (re)absorption (type 4 herbs). (b) The selected plants and compounds exert their antihyperglycemic effect through targeting one single mechanism (insulin resistance (type 1 herbs), -cell function (type 2 herbs), GLP-1 (type 3 herbs), or glucose (re)absorption (type 4 herbs)) or multiple mechanisms.
