en public specific review article <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:110%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:110%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">&nbsp;Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease which affects all aspects of human life. Medical herbs have become increasingly popular as complementary therapeutic measures for patients with diabetes. Thus, the present research aims to explore the consumption of medical herbs in patients with diabetes in Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office<b> </b>(EMRO) countries through a meta-analysis. <b>Methods:</b> The following keywords were searched: medicine, medicinal plants, healing plants, medicinal herbs, use, usage, frequency of use, prevalence, diabetes patients, type 2 diabetes, adults with diabetes, and EMRO countries. The databases searched included Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. <b>Results:</b> A total of 3,542 papers were found. After omitting repeated or irrelevant papers, 70 papers were retained. An analysis of the abstract and full text of papers led to the retention of 35 papers. A great variance was found regarding the rate of consuming medical herbs in the papers (16.8-97.7%). The relative frequency of consuming medical herbs was 38% (95% CI: 33-44). Moreover, the most prevalent herbs were fenugreek (19%), cinnamon (18%), black seed (14%), white lupinus (13%), and olive (13%) with a 95% confidence interval. About 70% of patients (95%CI: 62-79) did not inform their physician of their herbal medicine consumption. <b>Conclusion:</b> In light of the present findings, it can be concluded that patients with diabetes use a wide range of medical herbs. Thus, health specialists and physicians need to be aware of the possible synergic or moderating effect of herbal medicine on the therapeutic measures taken for diabetes.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <br> &nbsp;</div> Systematic review, Diabetes mellitus, Complementary therapies, Plants, Medicinal 116 131 http://jnfs.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-509-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Mojtaba Fattahi Ardakani 0000-0001-9989-171X No Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Nasim Namiranian 0000-0002-5133-6204 No Yazd Diabetes Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Mohammad Afkhami Ardekani 0000-0001-9383-6568 No Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Moradali Zareipour Zareipoor_m@khoyums.ac.ir 0000-0002-1039-896X Yes Department of Public Health, School of Health, Khoy University of Medical Sciences, Khoy, Iran Ali Asadian 0000-0001-8823-356X No Social Determinants in Health Promotion Research Center, Hormozgan Health Institute, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran Sara Heydari 0000-0003-0033-7028 No Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran