Hypoglycemic effect of Urtica plants and its mechanism: Research advances / 国际药学研究杂志

ABSTRACT

Urtica plants have been used as traditional Chinese folk medicine for a long time. Studies showed that Uritica plants had obvious hypoglycemic effect by stimulating insulin secretion, influencing the intestinal absorption of glucose, inhibiting α-glucosidase activity, eliminating free radicals, resisting lipid peroxidation and so on. In this article, the research advances in hypoglycemic effect of Urtica plant and its mechanism are reviewed.