Traditional herbal recipes used for the treatment of diabetes by ethnic groups of district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh, India

The history of ethnomedicine is as old as human civilization. Medicinal plants have played an important role in treating and preventing a variety of diseases throughout the world. The present study was aimed to investigate the traditional utilization of medicinal plant for diabetes in district Mahoba of Uttar Pradesh, India. The local inhabitants of the district have a long history of traditional plants used for medicinal purposes. Different herbs are used by different tribes to treat various diseases. The knowledge of traditional formulation of medicinal plants is inherited from one generation to other. These traditional herbal plants are used to treat different ailments by the ethnic groups are already getting scientific evidence based research. They are found effective to Local people of area use different parts of plants like root, stem, leaf, seed, bark, flower etc. in the preparation of different recipes to treat diabetes. Recent findings support that these ethnomedicinal herbs are effectively used to treat diabetes mellitus. There are 15 plant species belong to different 10 families used in diabetes treatments which are enumerated with exact method of drug preparation, dose and mode of application.