Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education:
The limitation of available antidiabetic agents in terms of efficacy or safety coupled with the emergence
of the disease into global epidemic have encouraged alternative therapy for the management of
diabetes more safely and efficiently. Although alternative therapies with antidiabetic activity have
been researched and used extensively, however, medical students either do not study these courses or
their length of the study is too short. Therefore, complementary and alternative medicine is needed to
be widely taught in medical schools and widely practiced in hospital
