Diabetes (TCM), as part of China’s Medicine Progress Series, has 89 excellent articles on diabetes research with TCM. The articles included were recommended by the editorial boards of the journals in which they were originally published, covering theoretical analysis, analysis of effective components, mechanism study, and clinical study. These articles fully demonstrate the unique therapies and good efficacy of TCM in treating diabetes, with scientific methodological support and objective conclusions. The original articles were published in Chinese and this book is a compilation of English versions of selected articles.

XIE Yanming was rated as an exemplary woman by the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a national woman pace-setter in 2006. As the vice chairman of the Specialized Committee on Encephalopathy, China Association of Chinese Medicine and the executive president and secretary general of the Specialized Committee on Post-marketing Reevaluation, World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS), she has long been engaged in TCM clinical evaluation and post-marketing drug reevaluation, geriatric disease research, and TCM standardization research. She has published 667 papers in leading academic journals in China, compiled 19 books including the Practical Rehabilitation Therapies for Stroke, won the national, first-tier society and Beijing government awards for over 20 times, and cultivated almost 100 masters, doctors, and post-doctors.