Evaluating Musculoskeletal Complications Among Individuals With Diabetes Mellitus

Dr. Simran Maheshwari; Dr. Subhan Quraishi; Dr. Babita Ghodke

Volume : I, Issue : VI, November - 2012

Evaluating Musculoskeletal Complications Among Individuals With Diabetes Mellitus

Dr. Simran Maheshwari, Dr. Subhan Quraishi, Dr. Babita Ghodke

Abstract :

India is one of the 12 Mega–biodiversity centres of the world with two biodiversity hotspot viz, Western Ghats and Eastern Himalayas. India, being the junction of Ethiopian, Palaearctic and Oriental realms of biogeography, got rich variety of biological community �types�. India�s cultural diversity is equally remarkable – shaped largely by the modes of subsistence ranging from hunting and gathering, nomadic herding and subsistence cultivation to intensive agricultural to modern industries. Given this heterogeneity of culture, the pressure of large human and livestock population and the substantial resource demand of the modern sector, conserving India�s heritage of cultural and biological diversity is a daunting task (Gadgil 1991). India has been divided into 16 agro climatic zones with 45000 plant species of which 15000 medicinal plants that includes 7000 plants used in Ayurveda, 700 in Unani medicine, 6000 in Siddha medicine and 30 in modern medicine. The Indian system of medicine have identified 1500 medicinal plants of which 500 species are used in preparation of healing drugs out of these 150 plant species have been categorized as endangered. Registered practiceners of ISM & H and traditional healers used medicinal plants in preparation of medicines/ health foods etc. Keeping in view the utility of these plants steps are required to increase their availability (ISM & H, 2001). The study an attempt to analyze such traditional (indigenous) knowledge systems in the region of Uttrakhand state. The hills of the Uttrakhand are still replete with examples of, local community using the indigenous (traditional) knowledge for medicines (Ilyas, 1998).