REVIEW ARTICLE ON ANTIDIABETIC ACTIVITY OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES FROM USING MEDICAGO SATIVA EXTRACT

Abstract

India has a great affluence of different herbal drugs that occur naturally and have great pharmacological activities.Medicago sativa L. is one of the widely well-known folklore medicinal herb. The Medicago sativa is a medicinal plant and has been shown to have substantial pharmacological potential with great usefulness and use in folklore medicine. The plant has provided to different Pharmacological activities in the scientific field of Indian medicinalsystem, such as Anti-diabetic, anticancer, cholesterol and anti-inflammatory activities. The leave and sees were sold as bulk powdered herb, capsule and tablets for nutritional supplement in health food stores. The silver Nanoparticles were characterized by UV-vis, XRD and HR-TEM analysis, UV-vis, spectroscopic studies provided evidence for the formation of nanoparticles. The plant phytochemicals act as stabilizing agent around the Ag NPS, XRD and HR-TEM Analysis clearly proved the crystalline nature of the nanoparticles. This paper provides an split review on the plants phytoconstituents, pharmacological and silver nanoparticles.

Keywords: Anti-diabetic, Medicago sativa L, folklore medicinal