Osteoporosis，a systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass and microstructure deterioration of bone tissue，affects hundreds and millions of old men worldwide. In spite of a lot of factors causing osteoporosis，Vitamin D deficiency and calcium insufficiency is widely acknowledged. Osteoporosis brings great inconvenience and pain to the lives of patients. The efficiency of treatment is low and threatens life upon bone fracture. There is no satisfactory treatment yet with western medicine，but traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacy therapy is widely concerned as its predominance over comprehensive action resulting since it takes the whole body into consideration and has shown great advantages over treating osteoporosis. In this paper，the author reviews the progresses of study on the effects of traditional Chinese medicine in treating osteoporosis in recently years.