Objective Study on the treatment of fatty liver by Chinese medicine. Methods A study of the experimental literature on the treatment of fatty liver animals from 2003 to 2017 was carried out,to analyze the frequency and frequency of four nature, five flavors,channel tropism,efficacy. Results 78 single Chinese medicine for fatty liver,cold counted for 50% in four nature, the five flavors are mainly bitter, sweet and pungent, with a cumulative frequency of 86.40% ; channel tropism are mainly liver, spleen (stomach),lung and kidney,with cumulative frequency of 71.43% ; efficacy are mainly heat cle...