Medicinal plants used to treat hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic
conditions are of considerable interest to ethnobotanical community as
they are recognized to contain valuable medicinal properties in
different parts of the plant. The active principles of many plant
species with desired properties are isolated to cure ailments such as
diabetes type-1 and type-2 respectively.
We
created DiaMedBase, a diabetes literature database of medicinal plants
with abstract, plant parts, objective and a ‘disease link’ to diseases
other than diabetes for each medicinal plant. DiaMedBase is
constructed using html. Data are
collected from various literature sources viz. PubMed, ScienceDirect,
Mary Ann Libert, BlackWell Scientific, IngentaConnect, Scirus, Bentham
Publishers, Wiley journals and others. Currently, DiaMedBase includes
742 records, constituting about 309 genus and an overall 389 species
of plants described to possess medicinal properties against diabetes.
P.
Ajay Babu, G. Suneetha, Radha Boddepalli, V. Vasantha Lakshmi, T.
Sudha Rani, Y. RamBabu and K. Srinivas, A Database of 389 medicinal plants for diabetes Bioinformation,
1(4), 130-131 (2006)
