The case, a 28-year-old female with 13 years of type 1 diabetes mellitus, has been admitted for diabetic ketoacidosis multiple times. This time she was admitted due to nausea and vomiting. Vomiting was exacerbated as blood glucose increased (>300 mg/ dL). Furthermore, gastric emptying study showed prolonged gastric emptying time. She was diagnosed as diabetic gastropresis. Five months later, she requested Chinese Medicine for curing refractory vomiting. She was diagnosed as "spleen-kidney yang deficiency syndrome, sthenia pathogenic factor in stomach, accompanied with liver qi depression." The symptoms above improved significantly after treatment with acupuncture at ST44, LR3, ST40 and prescription of Chinese herbal drug modified Fu- Zi-Li-Zhong decoction.