Contents: Preface. 1. Antidiabetic plants of India: part-I/T.V.V. Seetharami Reddi, B.V.A. Ramarao Naidu and S. Prasanthi. 2. Antidiabetic plants of India: part-II/Irfan Ali Khan and Atiya Khanum. 3. Antidiabetic plants of India: part-III/M. Jaish Beg, M.Z. Beg, S.S. Ali and S.J. Ali. 4. Antidiabetic plants of India: part IV/Rizwana Mubeen, Sadia Fatima, Atiya Khanum, Irfan Ali Khan and S.Y. Anwar. Appendix: List of Medicinal Plants used in the treatment of diabetes.

"Health and disease are coeval with life. From time immemorial man has been interested in trying to control diseases. The medicine man and herbolist undertook in various ways to cure man's disease and bring relief to the sick. One of the chronic, world wide heterogeneous, life threatening disease is diabetes. The prevalence of it will be 5.4% by the year 2025, with the global diabetic population reaching to 300 million. Among all the WHO regions, South East Asian region are highest affected with maximum global burden of the disease and by year 2025 there will be nearly 80 million diabetic in the region. Sensing this demand, the articles of this book have compiled to help the biologists to keep themselves abreast of the latest developments. This book will cater to the immediate needs of the students, researchers, faculty members and pharmaceutical industries in India and abroad."