According to current educated guess, the global human population emerges to be in the midst of an epidemic of diabetes. In spite of the enormous steps that have been made in the perceptive and executive of diabetes, the disease and disease-related problems are increasing spontaneously.Simultaneously, phytochemicals bioactive compounds identified from traditional medicinal plants are presenting an exhilarating prospect for the improvement of novel therapeutics. This has step up the world wide effort to exploit and collect those medicinal plants that bear considerable amount of potential phytochemicals presenting multiple beneficial effects in combating with diabetes and diabetes-related difficulties. Therefore, as the disease is progressing alarming rates, there is an urgent need of identifying indigenous natural resources in order to procure them, and study in detail, their potential on different newly identified targets in order to develop them as new therapeutics.