This author holds that the final goal of the treatment for NIDDM is the reversion or amelioration of insulin resistance. To screen out a remedy for this reversion is an urgent task. Moreover

to establish indices for the comprehensive assessment and to set up a model combining disease with TCM Zheng are the bases and premise for studying insulin resistance. The therapeutic principles and stress points include to insist a major systemic treatment through multiple approach in different stages

so as to deepen the therapeutic and diagnostic system based on TCM differential diagnosis

to improve the efficacy of specific methods

specific recipe and specific drug. The focus of study should also be put on the application of non -drug therapy.