Vol. 7, Issue 1, Part A (2025)

India has been recognized all over the world for spices and medicinal plants. Medicinal plants and spices exhibit a wide range of physiological and pharmacological properties. Spices used in Indian cooking have a long history of use as medicines to prevent and treat diseases. A dietary spice influences various systems in the body such as gastrointestinal, cardiovascular reproductive and nervous system resulting in diverse metabolic and physiologic actions. This review focuses on the therapeutic potential of Indian spices to treat multiple symptoms of the metabolic syndrome such as insulin resistance diabetes. Diabetes mellitus is the most common chronic metabolic disease affecting almost 6% of the world population. It is one of the critical non -communicable diseases. Poorly controlled diabetes can lead to serious consequences, causing damage to a wide range of your body’s organs and tissues - including your heart kidney, eyes and nerves. Maintaining blood glucose in normal range and preventing complications due to long term hyperglycemia are the important goals of therapy in management of diabetes mellitus. The common therapeutic approach in management of diabetes mellitus DM is to control blood glucose with lifelong use of ant diabetic drugs. Most of them cause unwanted side - effects, drug interaction and are expensive. Currently, herbal drugs are increasingly being used. Plant based pharmacologically active ingredients also play a key role in modern pharmacotherapy. Management of diabetes without any side effects is still a challenge for medical system alternative systems like ayurvedic, diet, lifestyle intervention and recently spice therapies are seen useful and effective. Spices have long been known for their antioxidant, anti -inflammatory and ant diabetic properties. This review explores the anti - diabetic properties of commonly used spice Large cardamom (Amomum sublatum) Small cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum).