%0 Journal Article
%T Antihyperglycemic activity of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) aqueous extract
%A Sihem HALMI
%A B. BENLAKSSIRA
%A K. BECHTARZI
%A Z. DJERROU
%J International Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
%D 2012
%I 
%X We have studied the antihypoglycemic activity of a plant species commonly used by the ethno-doctors in diabetes treatment: the Opuntia ficus-indica cladodes. The experiment was performed on albino rabbits subject of a hyperglycemia test per os-induced (HPVO); they develop a glycemia of which the pick (200 mg/ 100 ml of blood).The plants extract are administrated to rabbits before the hyperglycemia test. The cladodes extract (2ml/kg) reduces the glucose rate of 21.67% starting from 30 min. The whole obtained results can to a certain extent, enable to explain the use of the Opuntia ficus-indica in diabetes traditional therapy.
%K Opuntia ficus-indica
%K traditional medicine
%K hyperglycemia
%K glucose
%U http://www.openaccessscience.com/pdf-files/vol2_3_sept2012/IJMAP_2_3_24_opuntia_ficus-indica.pdf