Neha Jasrotia

The love affair of Asian’s with Ling zhi, the Chinese name for Ganoderma lucidum and related species can be traced back over two thousand years. Ganoderma lucidum has been used for a broad spectrum of health benefits from preventive measures and maintenance of health to the regulation or treatment of chronic as well as acute life threatening illness. The present study was done to compare the Aqueous and methanolic extract of Ganoderma lucidum for anthelmintic activity and to compare the methanolic and chloroform-acetone extract of Ganoderma lucidum for antibacterial activity. Aqueous extract of mushroom did not show any result for anthelmintic activity, while the methanolic extract (60 mg/ml) was equally effective as standard (Albendazole 20 mg/ml). For antibacterial activity both the methanolic (350 mg/ml) and chloroform-acetone (350 mg/ml) extracts showed effective results, but the results of choloroform-acetone extract were more effective than methanolic extract and standard (Gentamycin 40 mg/ml). Key words: anthelmintic, antibacterial, methanolic extract, aqueous extract.

Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic disorders of fat, carbohydrate, and protein it cause defects in insulin secretion, insulin action or both. These days the incidence of type -2 DM is increasing word wide; it’s due to western life style. The present review article gives a general idea of diabetic mellitus, its treatment by using insulin, oral hypoglycemic drugs and herbal drugs. Despite considerable progress in the treatment of diabetes by oral hypoglycemic agents, search for newer drugs continues because the existing synthetic drugs have several limitations .The herbal drugs with antidiabetic activity are yet to be commercially formulated as modern medicines, even though they have been acclaimed for their therapeutic properties in the traditional systems of medicine. A number of plants have been described in Ayurveda and other traditional medicine for the treatment of diabetes. But  information about them is not easily available, in present review article author trying to summarize the various  medicinal plant, there botanical name ,common name and part of plant’s used in  treatment and control hyperglycemia. Goals of therapy in diabetes are directed towards attaining normal glucose level in blood and improved life style by using of herbal medication. India, with their reach sources of medicinal plant which may be used for the treatment of DM. Kew words – Diabetes, medicinal plant, source of plant, metabolic disorder, and insulin