Perera Pathirage Kamal, Li Yunman
Department of Physiology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R., China.
Pharmacogn Rev. 2012 Jan;6(11):37-45. doi: 10.4103/0973-7847.95863.
From many reports it is clear that diabetes will be one of the major diseases in the coming years. As a result there is a rapidly increasing interest in searching new medicines, or even better searching prophylactic methods. Based on a large number of chemical and pharmacological research work, numerous bioactive compounds have been found in functional herbal food ingredients for diabetes. The present paper reviews functional herbal food ingredients with regards to their anti-diabetic active principles and pharmacological test results, which are commonly used in Asian culinary system and medical system and have demonstrated clinical or/and experimental anti-diabetic effectiveness. Our idea of reviewing this article is to give more attention to these functional food ingredients as targets medicinal foods in order to prevent or slow down the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
从许多报告中可以清楚地看出，糖尿病将是未来几年的主要疾病之一。因此，人们对寻找新药，或者更好地寻找预防方法的兴趣迅速增加。基于大量的化学和药理学研究工作，在用于糖尿病的功能性草药食品成分中发现了许多生物活性化合物。本文综述了在亚洲烹饪系统和医疗系统中常用的具有抗糖尿病活性成分和药理试验结果的功能性草药食品成分，这些成分已显示出临床或/和实验性抗糖尿病效果。我们撰写本文的目的是更多地关注这些功能性食品成分，将其作为目标药用食品，以预防或减缓2型糖尿病的发展。
