Hunteria Umbellata Extract is a Potent Agent for Effec-Tive Diabetes Control

Abstract

  Background: As many as 422 million of the world population, which is 8.5% of the global population were suffering from diabetes in 2014, in 2016, diabetes as a cause of death rose by 5%, and 1.5 million lives were lost to diabetes in 2019 hence, solution-driven interventions to bring the diabetes epidemic under control is necessary. Diabetes treatment is too expensive for the poor and its modern medicine treatment adverse side effects stand in the way of treatment thus, the demand for affordable and harmless herbal alternative is on the rise, and many Africans use Hunetria umbellata to treat diabetes. It is rich in pharmacological phytochemical compounds. Objectives: Conduct a review of clinical epidemiological studies performed to determine Hunteria umbellata extract efficacious potency in controlling blood sugar and diabetes. Purpose is to encourage and promote its proper use if evidence supports its use, or discourage its use if evidence states the contrary. Methods: A systematic review study that used various search engines to locate, assess, review, and summarize clinical studies conducted to investigate the potency of Hunteria umbellata extract in blood sugar and diabetes control. The samples size n, (n=22) of the studies reviewed from  which the conclusion of this study was drawn. Search words were “Hunteria umbellata,             composition of Hunteria umbellata , Hunteria umbellata and diabetes, Hunteria umbellata  and sugar”. Results: Results revealed that Hunteria umbellata extract is a potent agent for controlling blood sugar and diabetes significantly, its effect manifests after six hours and its sugar reduction action continues progressively over time as the dose and concentration increases. Conclusion: Hunteria umbellata extraction in all clinically approved standards of extraction showed straight antagonism to blood sugar and diabetes, it is a potent agent against blood sugar and diabetes thus, its use in Africa as native medicine for treating diabetes is justified.