Abstract: Chronic opharyngitis is the common disease of ear,nose and throat outpatient service that has an impact of the quality of patients'life.Traditional Chinese medicine has obvious advantages in the treatment of chronic pharyngi-tis,mainly including internal treatment,external treatment and acupuncture and other therapies.Blowing medicine,garg-ling,steam inhalation,sticking are included in the external treatment.The characteristic therapy of traditional Chinese medicine has remarkable effect and few side effects.Based on relative literature,this paper tempts to make a review about the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of chronic pharyngitis.