What are the Chinese herbal medicines for lowering blood sugar?

　　Salvia miltiorrhiza decoction can significantly reduce blood sugar in experimental animals, the effect can last for 5 hours, and can also reduce blood lipids and blood viscosity. Lycium barbarum extract can promote a long-lasting decrease in blood sugar in experimental animals with diabetes, and can improve diabetic blood lipids and poor vision.

　　Recent studies have found that many Chinese herbal medicines have a good effect on lowering blood sugar and are very helpful in treating diabetes when used properly.

　　1. Salvia miltiorrhiza: Salvia miltiorrhiza decoction can significantly reduce blood sugar in experimental animals, the effect can last for 5 hours, and can also reduce blood lipids and blood viscosity. Clinical application: 15 grams each of salvia, pollen, and kudzu root, 20 grams of astragalus, 7 grams of schisandra, and 10 grams each of honeysuckle and scrophulariaceae. It is effective in treating diabetes combined with hypercoagulation and hyperlipidemia.

　　2. Rehmannia glutinosa (raw and cooked rehmannia): Calculated at 2 g/kg body weight, when fed to experimental animals, blood sugar dropped significantly. It can also inhibit and prevent the rise in blood sugar in rabbits caused by epinephrine, and can improve diabetic hyperlipidemia and hypertension. When used clinically for diabetes, raw rehmannia is often used with asparagus, wolfberry, etc., for example, 30 grams each of raw rehmannia and astragalus, 20 grams each of yam, anemarrhena, kudzu root, gypsum (fried first), and oysters, 15 grams each of ginseng, wolfberry, atractylodes, poria, and dangshen, 10 grams each of Ophiopogon japonicus and schisandra chinensis, and 5 grams of coptis.

　　3. Corn silk: Corn silk fermentation agent has obvious hypoglycemic effect on experimental animals with diabetes, and can improve diabetic hypertension and kidney disease. For clinical use, stew 45 grams of corn silk, 30 grams of astragalus, 15 grams of atractylodes and 1 pig pancreas for one-day dietary therapy.

　　4. Anemarrhena: Anemarrhena water extract can reduce blood sugar in experimental animals, and has a more obvious effect on the increase in blood sugar caused by drugs. Decoction of 12 grams each of Anemarrhena, Trichosanthes, Ophiopogon japonicus and Coptis chinensis can improve the symptoms of diabetes (such as thirst, polydipsia, etc.).

　　5. Wolfberry: Lycium barbarum extract can promote a long-lasting decrease in blood sugar in experimental animals with diabetes, and can improve diabetic blood lipids and poor vision. Taking 25 grams each of wolfberry, schisandra, polygonatum, and ginseng every day and decoction as tea can improve the symptoms of thirst.

　　6. Ginseng: Ginseng can promote the reduction of blood sugar in experimental animals, and can reduce the symptoms of diabetic blood lipids and weakness. Clinical reports indicate that ginseng extract has a therapeutic effect on early-stage mild diabetes, reducing urine sugar and blood sugar by 40 mg. The therapeutic effect can still last for more than 2 weeks after stopping the drug. For mild diabetes, ginseng can be used in combination with raw rehmannia; for moderate and severe diabetes, it should be combined with insulin, because the two have synergistic effects on lowering blood sugar. The daily dosage of ginseng is 3 to 9 grams.

　　In addition, traditional Chinese medicines for treating diabetes include astragalus, yam, dodder, poria, coptis, gypsum, ebony plum, atractylodes, atractylodes, Polygonatum odoratum, scrophulariaceae, agrimony, Digu bark, Xanthium bark, malt, Alisma, Platycodon, Polygonatum, winter mulberry leaves, fairy spleen, etc.