Table 3.
Ten most common herbal formulae prescribed by TCM doctors for the treatment of type 2 diabetes among 31,289 patients from 1998 to 2008 in Taiwan.
| Herbal formulae | English name | Number of person-days N = 775,447 (%) |
Average daily dose (g) | Average duration for prescription (days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liu-Wei-Di-Huang-Wan | Rehmannia six pill | 62,249 (8.0) | 8.0 | 47.9 |
| Bai-Hu-Jia-Ren-Shen-Tang | White tiger plus ginseng combination | 42,676 (5.5) | 7.5 | 47.4 |
| Zhi-Bo-Di-Huang-Wan | Zhibai Rehmannia six pill | 37,918 (4.9) | 5.7 | 45.4 |
| Qi-Ju-Di-Huang-Wan | Chichu Rehmannia pill | 37,796 (4.9) | 5.7 | 64.4 |
| Yu-Quan-Wan | Jade spring pill | 35,878 (4.6) | 5.6 | 54.8 |
| Ji-Sheng-Shen-Qi-Wan | Economic health shenqi pill, life-saving renal Chi pill | 27,347 (3.5) | 7.1 | 43.6 |
| Xue-Fu-Zhu-Yu-Tang | Persica and achyranthes combination | 22,708 (2.9) | 5.3 | 45.9 |
| Ba-Wei-Di-Huang-Wan | Eight-flavour Rehmannia pill | 19,247 (2.5) | 9.1 | 41.5 |
| Bai-Hu-Tang | White tiger combination | 18,801 (2.4) | 7.0 | 42.1 |
| Gan-Lu-Yin | Sweet combination drink | 18,502 (2.4) | 5.1 | 38.1 |