By analysing and summarizing the literature about Chinese medicine’s reatment of atherosclerosis(AS) in recent years

finding four kinds of methods about treatmenting AS

including eliminating stasis

eliminating toxin and heat

nourishing liver and kidney and interference blood.Successful treatment of AS mainly through adjusting the lipid metabolism

improving the blood rheology

limiting the inflammation cell infiltrates

limiting the immune factor expression and interfering theatherosclerotic plaque.This paper affirms the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine for the advantage of Chinese medicine’s reatment of AS and puts forward the future treatment of AS that should be put in stable of vulnerability patches in order to provide effective basis for treating AS by combinatng western medicine with Chinese medicine in the future.