Hyperglycemia, also known as diabetes mellitus, is included in the category of “consuming thirst” in Chinese medicine, and can be treated with Chinese medicine as an adjunctive therapy. Thirst is mainly categorized into the following symptoms. Lung heat and fluid injury (heat in the lungs, which continuously depletes the body’s fluid) is characterized by excessive thirst, dryness of the mouth and tongue, frequent and copious urination, and excessive sweating (irritability and sultriness), etc. Thirst-quenching formula can be used. Patients with the syndrome of stomach-heat blazing are characterized by excessive food and hunger, thirst, excessive urination, emaciation, and dry stools, etc. The representative formula is Jade Lady Decoction. Patients with deficiency of qi and yin manifesting as thirst leading to drinking, ability to eat and loose stools (thin and unformed feces), lack of spirit, weakness of limbs, etc. This formula is represented by Seven-flavored Atractylodis Macrocephalae Powder. Patients with deficiency of kidney yin are characterized by frequent and copious urination, turbidity like ointment, lumbar and knee soreness and weakness (feeling of soreness and weakness of waist and knee), dizziness, tinnitus, dry mouth and lips, etc. The formula is Six-flavored Digoxigenin Pill. Patients with deficiency of Yin and Yang manifest frequent urination, turbid as ointment, emaciated face, dry ears, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, lack of warmth of limbs, fear of cold limbs (fear of cold, cold limbs), etc. The representative formula is Jin Gui Kidney Qi Pill. Diabetic patients should take medication under the guidance of a physician, not self-medication.