ABSTRACT For many years, folk medicines have employed traditional medicinal plants to treat and manage a variety of conditions and diseases, such as diabetes, pain, ulcers, cancer, and wounds. The phytochemical and antidiabetic properties of the widely used antidiabetic medicinal species in Kenya were the main focus of this investigation. The main chemical classes identified by phytochemical profiling of these species were flavonoids and terpenoids, which have been associated with potent biological effects against the diseases indicated above, among other things. However, as the report points out, many natural product isolation studies have only looked at a small number of the twenty-two species that were chosen. Nine antidiabetic species have not yet been tested for their antidiabetic properties, however all thirteen showed high antidiabetic effects through the inhibition of αglucosidase and αamylase, among other pathways. In order to confirm their antidiabetic use and develop new antidiabetic medications, it is imperative to isolate natural compounds from the chosen antidiabetic species that are often used in Kenya and assess their antidiabetic activity both in vitro and in vivo. Keywords: Didymocarpus pedicellata, Diabetes Mellitus, Bioactive Compound, Molecular target in diabetes.
Sharma et al. (2026) studied this question.