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"Diabetes is a chronic problem associated with the metabolic disorder. Persons suffering from diabetes have shown an accelerated levels of blood sugar, which often harms the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves. Over the past few decades, the prevalence of diabetes has been progressively increasing. In this connection, synthetic drugs are used to treat the diabetic patients and keep the disorder under control. However, in the form of substitute numerous medicinal plants and herbal drugs are widely used in several traditional systems of medicine to prevent diabetes, and Several plant-based drugs are now available in the market. They have been reported to show multiple beneficial effects in combating diabetes and alleviating the diabetes-related complications. Numerous phytonutrients and or phytoconstituents have been identified and extracted from these plants. They have shown protective or disease preventive properties. In many developing countries, diabetes treatment with synthetic drugs looks to be an expensive process due to poverty and lack of free medical facility etc. Thus, herbal drugs are recommended by traditional practitioners for their therapeutic value and/or antidiabetic response. Taken together, the aim of the book is to provide an overview on the most important and selected antidiabetic plants and the natural products obtained from these plants. This book provide valuable information to scientists, researchers and students, working specially on medicinal plants, or in areas of ethnomedicine, natural products, economic botany, plant biochemistry, biotechnology, pharmacognosy, industrial chemistry, and other allied subjects. This book also help in testifying the various reports on antidiabetic plants and their other potential uses in new drug discovery based on their bioactive molecules, and also useful for pharmaceutical companies, industrialists and health policy makers"--