Moreover, many research works about pharmacological activity of medicinal plants for diabetes mellitus were concerned with anti-oxidant activity.
In brief, diabetes mellitus is one of the degenerative diseases which concerned with pancreas dysfunction.
Therefore, antioxidants might play an important role in slowing down or preventing degeneration at pancreas.
The plants with antioxidant activity were O. corymbosa and Harrisonia perforate, etc.