The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of alcoholic extract hipanica Salvia on the intestinal absorption of glucose in Rattus rattus var. Albinus_x000D_ They worked in five groups of rats with five individuals each. A negative control group, positive and experimental at different doses of the extract chia Control; each individual was anesthetized with sodium pentobarbital and dissected small intestine dividing it into duodenum, jejunum and ileum was extracted._x000D_ Each serving individual was placed in a system of incubation at 37 ° C in Tyrode solution with continuous oxygenation, the negative control group without treatment, the positive control with 10% glucose and experimental with 10% glucose plus 100, 300 and 500mg / dL of alcoholic extract of "chia" respectively._x000D_ Samples of liquid contained in each portion of the intestine, at 0, 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes...