Fasting blood glucose (Figure 1a) was elevated significantly in type-2 diabetes group when compared to control animals. A. paniculata treated group significantly reduced the fasting blood glucose level more efficiently than metformin (the standard drug) treated group did. In control+Ap group, A. paniculata did not alter when compared to control. In OGT test (Figure 1e) of control rats, glucose concentration rose sharply after glucose load and attained its maximum at 60 min and thereafter it started declining and the level was brought back to normal range by 180 min. In the diabetic group the rise at 60 min was not lowered at 120 min and did not return to its fasting range in 180 min. Also, in the diabetic group, the blood glucose at basal as well as other time points during OGT test showed a significant increase compared to control. The rise in blood glucose level at 60 min in A. paniculata administered group was gradually