近年來，隨著人們飲食結構、生活方式的改變，脂肪肝的發(fā)病率呈上升趨勢，且發(fā)病年齡越來越小，現(xiàn)已成為危害人類健康最常見的肝病。目前脂肪肝的發(fā)生機制尚未徹底明了，西醫(yī)缺乏理想的針對性的特效藥，主要應用調節(jié)血脂的藥物進行輔助治療。而中藥對脂肪肝有著很好的作用和廣闊前景，無論在改善臨床癥狀，還是在改善肝功能方面都有明顯的優(yōu)勢。從中醫(yī)對脂肪肝的病因病機、治療原則、中藥治療方法等方面，對近年來的文獻進行了綜述。

Recently the morbidity of fatty liver shows an ascendant trend, and the age of onset is getting smaller and smaller. At present, the mechanism of fatty liver has not yet been thoroughly clear, and there is no effective drugs in western medicine. Treatment on fatty liver by traditional Chinese medicine has a clear advantage in both the improvement of clinical symptoms and the improvement of liver function and liver imaging. This article reviewed the literatures of recent years from the aspects of fatty liver pathogenesis, treatment principles, methods, and other traditional Chinese medicine treatment.