For treating diabetes, modern medicine used some drugs such as: insulin, sulfonylureas, biguanid, etc. However, long ago people had known to use medicine materials from natural herbs and animals with hypoglycemia and anti-diabetic effects: Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Breit. Araceae family; Lantana camara L., Verbenaceae family; Platycodon gradiflorum (Jacq.) A. DC., Campanulaceae family; Stevia rebaudiana (Bert) Hemsi, Asteraceae family; Gynostemma pentapbyllum (Thunb.) Mak. Cucurbitaceae family; Calendula officinalis L., Asteraceae family; Morus alba L., Moraceae family; Tinospora cordifolia Miers., Menispermaceae; Rheum, Polygonaceae family; Hordeum vulgare L., Poaceae family; Rehmannia glutinosa (Gaernt.) Libosch., Scrophulariaceae family; Hirudo, Hirudinidae family; Anacardium occidentale L.), Anacardiaceae family; Cordyceps sinensis (Berk.). Succ., Hepialidae family; Prunella vulgaris L.), Lamiaceae family; Allium cepa L., Alliaceae family.ew
Materia Medica ; Hypoglycemia ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Therapeutics

The author introduced materia medica with hypoglycemia effects in diabetes mellitus including Astragalus, Coptis, Polygonatum, Trigonella foenum - graecum, Scrophularia ningpoensis Hemsl, Xanthium strumarium L. or X.sibiricum, Lycium barbarum L. and L.chinense Mill., Agrimonia pilosa Ledela, Pumica gramatum L., Ephedra, Ophiopogon japonicus thunb Ker gawl, Momordica charantia L., Zea mays L., Acanthopanax, Schisandra, Arctium lappa, Panax ginseng C.A, Psidium guyava L., Capsicum frutescens L., Stephania tetrandra s. Moore, Aconitum, Poria cocos (Schw.) Wolf, Panax quinquefolium L., Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi, Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn., Cornus officinalis Sieb. Et Zucc., Gecko
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