近年來(lái)，隨著人們飲食結(jié)構(gòu)、生活方式的改變，脂肪肝的發(fā)病率呈上升趨勢(shì)，且發(fā)病年齡越來(lái)越小，現(xiàn)已成為危害人類(lèi)健康最常見(jiàn)的肝病。目前脂肪肝的發(fā)生機(jī)制尚未徹底明了，西醫(yī)缺乏理想的針對(duì)性的特效藥，主要應(yīng)用調(diào)節(jié)血脂的藥物進(jìn)行輔助治療。而中藥對(duì)脂肪肝有著很好的作用和廣闊前景，無(wú)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(shì)。從中醫(yī)對(duì)脂肪肝的病因病機(jī)、治療原則、中藥治療方法等方面，對(duì)近年來(lái)的文獻(xiàn)進(jìn)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.