• Includes an outline of clinical methods for studying anti-diabetic activity
• Provides insight into the industrial approach to discovering new anti-diabetic agents
• Focuses on selected well-researched plants or groups of phytochemicals

There has been a steady scientific interest in the role of plants in treating diabetes mellitus. This volume presents an ethnopharmacological perspective of the role of plants in the treatment of diabetes and associated complications. The text provides guidance on methodology for those interested in carrying out research, and highlights those plants and phytochemical groups that are of particular significance or potential in this context. Chapters provide an overview of the features and prevalence of diabetes mellitus, discuss approaches to treatment, give a database summary of the scientific studies carried out on plants, and offer insight into the discovery of new anti-diabetic agents.