Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is a type of liver disease caused by excessive alcohol consumption.With the improvement of living standards of residents in our country in recent years,alcohol consumption and the domestic ALD patients have showed a trend of increase year by year,which was one of the most etiological agents besides the reasons of liver disease.In view of this,domestic and foreign experts and scholars had paid more and more attention to this disease.This paper analyzed the literature of ALD research in recent years,and found that more and more studies on the treatment of ALD in Chinese medicine,with the characteristics of multi-target and multi-link therapy,and good overall clinical efficacy.