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Natural plant-based remedies for diabetes mellitus have been proven to be safe and effective altatives to West medications,and details about more than 400 plants are available in the literature.Sri Lanka is a tropical country which is blessed with many natural plant products that can be utilized for the treatment of diabetes.But the knowledge of these plant-derived remedies,especially their doses,mechanism of action and toxicity has not been extensively researched.Therefore,this review focuses on documenting the plant-based remedies that the Sri Lankan Aurvedic physicians use and the extent of research that has been carried out on each of these plant-based remedies.