IL6 and diabetes mellitus: KEGG pathway enrichment analysis screened 156 signal pathways (P < 0.05), involving PI3K-Akt signal pathway, AGE-RAGE signal pathway in diabetes complications, MAPK signal pathway, HIF-1 signal pathway, IL-17 signal pathway, etc. Molecular docking results showed that quercetin, luteolin, kaempferol, tanshinone IIa, wogonin, naringenin, nobiletin, dihydrotanshinlactone, beta-sitosterol, and salviolone have good affinity with core target proteins IL6, PTGS2, MAPK1, MAPK3, and CGRP1.