[Professor Zhang Zhi-long's experience in the treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications].

This paper summarizes professor ZHANG Zhi-long's academic thoughts and his specialized treatment experience for type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications. There are three aspects: emphasizes the importance of scientific investigation and the classics in TCM, states that spleen deficiency and excessive dampness tend to cause type 2 diabetes mellitus; emphasizes regulating spleen and stomach with acupuncture and formulates acupoint prescription for regulating middle-jiao; emphasizes the evidence based medicine and clinical experiences, seeks the law of treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus.