Some scholars believe that Chinese medicine has failed to keep pace with the era of the development of advanced science and technology, the "old" salve tisanes are still in use, the diagnosis of TCM four it also come up with conclusive scientific experiment basis, with the scientific progress and constantly updated, the people thought idea whether science of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine whether effective received a serious question. In the history of modern revolution, Chinese medicine has been questioned more than once. In the face of many doubts, many people in the field of traditional Chinese medicine believe that traditional Chinese medicine is in urgent need of reform to adapt to the development of science. Other scholars believe that the value of traditional Chinese medicine is far from being given full play and due attention. The scientific nature of traditional technology and theory will gradually appear with the progress of society. Therefore, the revival of tradition is another prospect for the development of traditional Chinese medicine. In this contention, scholars under various propositions have made efforts in different directions, which makes TCM show different development traces like all other disciplines.

Nowadays, the efforts of TCM from five different perspectives are as follows: 1. Stick to the tradition and hope to return to the original TCM. 2, resolutely dialectical treatment, all dialectical treatment, take the new China academic road. 3. Follow the path of combining Chinese and western medicine. 4. Modernization of traditional Chinese medicine: modern medicine is used to understand and interpret traditional Chinese medicine, even to explain meridians and collaterals. 5. Modern traditional Chinese medicine: analyze various medical materials with traditional Chinese medicine methods, and try to remove diseases. All disciplines are diverging, which is a general trend, and Chinese medicine is no exception. It may be better to seek solutions rather than fixed forms. Five articles online can direct the query: 1, "Mr So foot book:" eight old saying "to premier zhu rongji, 2, 3" tie-tao deng to discuss treatment based on syndrome differentiation ", "combine traditional Chinese and western medicine is the road to modernization of traditional Chinese medicine, 4," what factors hindered the modernization and internationalization of TCM theory, 5, and the modern traditional Chinese medicine ". Advocates of the five directions: modernization of traditional Chinese medicine was once the direction advocated by the ministry of health, including many academicians; The real representative of integrated Chinese and western medicine is academician Chen keji, President of integrated Chinese and western medicine society. The representative figures of retro-ism are he zudao, jia qian, etc.; Deng tietao is the representative of the initial direction of the college's TCM treatment based on syndrome differentiation. Representative figures of modern Chinese medicine are nie wentao and so on.

It has become the development trend of traditional Chinese medicine and the basis for the world to pay attention to it.