ABSTRACT
Diabetes,so-called“emaciation-thirst disease”in traditional Chinese medicine(TCM),is a prevalent chronic dis?ease with complicated etiology,incurable and multiple complications,as well as extremely high morbidity and mortality. TCM pays at?tention to tackling the problem in the treatment of emaciation-thirst disease,and many prescriptions are single animal medicine or con?tain animal-original drug;animal-original drugs possess stasis and other unique characteristics and therapeutic effects. Based on the current anti-diabetic drugs,the review gives an in-depth summary and analysis on the single animal-original drugs derived from the complexes of TCM in the treatment of diabetes according to their mechanism of action,with the aim to provide reference for developing new animal-original drugs to treat diabetes.