Diabetes mellitus is a serious metabolic disease that cause high blood sugar and slowly it spills into urine and cause
many physiological disorders. It is a major life-threatening disease all over the world. An ethnobotanical survey of antidiabetic
plants was conducted in Vallathkunnu. Semi-structured questionnaire method was used. The questionnaires are divided into
three sections.
First part was about the personal information such as age, sex. Second part include the common name, habit, plant part used.
The third part includes plant formulations and mode of application of the plant part. A total of 48 plants belongs to 30 families
having antidiabetic property are documented. The plant has been enumerated with botanical name, scientific name, local name,
habit, plant part used, and ethnic practices. Distribution analysis of plants habit revealed that maximum remedies were obtained
from herb (18), followed by trees (13), shrub (10), climbers (7) respectively.
