Objective: To explore the medication regularity of Chinese medicine in treating enuresis in children based on modern literature. Method: We searched the clinical research literature from China National Knowledge Internet (CNKI

1990—2014) about enuresis in children treated by Chinese medicine or integrated Chinese and western medicine

and built a literature database about the Chinese medicine for treating enuresis in children. Then a statistical analysis was carried out to study the Chinese herbs about their usage frequency

classification of effect

nature

flavor and channel tropism. Result: The 112 articles in total were included in this study

involving 95 kinds of Chinese herbs

1 050 times for usage frequency. The used Chinese herbs mainly included astringent drug

Yang tonifying drug and Qi tonifying drug

with cumulative usage frequency of 62.2%. The main nature of these herbs was warm

calm and lukewarm

with cumulative frequency of 90.7%

and the cumulative frequency of warm and hot herbs was 55.9% totally. The main flavors of the herbs were sweet

pungent

sour and astringent

with cumulative frequency of 79.4%. The main channel tropism of the herbs included kidney and spleen

with cumulative frequency of 45.8%. Conclusion: This study indicates that children with enuresis should be treated from the aspect of deficiency-cold syndrome by Chinese medicine;the specific therapeutic methods mainly contain warming kidney

strengthening spleen

and inducing astringency to arrest urination. For medicine

we should mainly choose the warm or hot herbs in nature

of which the flavor is sweet

pungent

sour or astringent and the channel tropism includes kidney or spleen.