Diabetic patients can consider taking Chinese herbal medicine for treatment. It should be noted that Chinese herbal medicine can only be used as an adjunctive treatment, not as the main medicine for glucose-lowering treatment. The main role of Chinese medicine for diabetic patients includes the following aspects. Chinese medicine can improve the thirst, excessive drinking and polyuria symptoms caused by high blood sugar in diabetic patients. Oral Chinese medicine can also treat symptoms such as weakness, edema and poor appetite caused by diabetic nephropathy, and can increase the resistance of diabetic patients. In addition, there are some Chinese medicines that have the effect of improving microcirculation, which also has a certain therapeutic effect on diabetic neuropathy’s. Diabetic patients should control blood sugar mainly with western oral hypoglycemic drugs or insulin and supplement with Chinese medicine treatment under the premise of lifestyle intervention.