ABSTRACT
In 2018, the World Health Organization reported an increase in the number of people with diabetes from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. Diabetes or diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease due to the pancreas’s inability to produce insulin or the ineffectiveness of insulin usage by the body. This chapter describes some plant species of Borneo that have traditionally been used to manage diabetes. Tinospora crispa is a medicinal plant that belongs to the Menispermaceae family. Noorcahyati reported the utilization of T. crispa by people of Kalimantan to treat diabetes. Artocarpus altilis is a tree species belonging to the Moraceae family and is the accepted name of A. communis. Pradityo and Noorcahyati reported traditional utilization of A. altilis leaves as medicine for diabetes by people of Kalimantan. Flavonoids had been isolated from A. altilis. The water extract of the leaves of Psidium guajava has been used by the Kelabit in Sarawak to treat diabetes.
