title: Research progress on the mechanism of single-Chinese medicinal herbs in treating diabetes mellitus.
abstract: Treating diabetes mellitus (DM) with Chinese medicine (CM) has had a few thousands years of history. Past Chinese medical texts had already recorded numerous medicinal herbs as well as recipes for treating DM and accumulated much clinical experience. In the following article, the prevention of DM using CM in the past 5 years is retrospectively studied, and mainly focuses on the usage of simple Chinese herbal extracts or monomers in terms of cellular as well as molecular biology.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Gansu Province Academy of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, 730050, China.
authors.forename: Li-Xia
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Tong-Hua
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Zong-Tao
authors.initials: ZT
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Juan-E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Li-Li
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000639:trends*; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000188:drug therapy*; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D032062:Gardenia / Q000737:chemistry; D020441:Ginkgo biloba / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D005894:Panax / Q000737:chemistry; D058028:Research Report; D012250:Rheum / Q000737:chemistry; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal