Insulin resistance (IR) is an important pathophysiological mechanism of type 2 diabetes.Treatment of IR becomes the key to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes. At present

the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes have developed from hypoglycemic therapy as the main purpose into comprehensive treatment strategy with insulin resistance as the target.Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) polysaccharide has a good curative effect in improving IR of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Compared with western medicine for treating IR of type 2 diabetes mellitus

TCM polysaccharide has higher safety

good curative effect andlow price. However

there is no scientific and systematic summarizationfor the mechanisms of TCM polysaccharide on type 2 diabetes IR. In this paper

CNKI database was retrieved with ‘polysaccharide

type 2 diabetes

insulin resistance’ as key words to collect

analyze and summarize all of literatures of TCM polysaccharides in treatment of diabetes

in order to summarize effects and mechanisms of TCM polysaccharides for treating type 2 diabetes

provide reference for future studies related to polysaccharide species

dosage of TCM and taking time

and developed new preparations with a higher convenience

bettercurative effect and higher safety.