An overview on medicinal plants of Sikkim Himalayas region with emphasis on antidiabetic: A review

Abstract

Nature always stands as a golden mark to exemplify the outstanding phenomena of symbiosis. Plant has been used to prevent and treat many types of disease along with the epidemic from thousand of year ago. Some medicinal plant has been used as nutraceuticals. Nature exemplify as an inexhaustible origin of novel chemo types and pharmacophores, a source of medicinal agent from Vedic era. The traditional medicinal uses of 36 plants species belonging to different families from Sikkim Himalayan region are reported in this review article giving emphasis in antidiabetic activity reported.