Is tumor surgery a radical or a symptomatic treatment? Chinese medicine believes that both minor surgery and radical tumor surgery are treating the symptoms, and the so-called radical tumor surgery is not a cure because it often cannot eliminate the patient’s cancer-causing causes. Chinese medicine emphasizes the idea of “prevention of disease before disease, prevention of change after disease, prevention of recurrence after disease”, and surgery is only a specific treatment for a certain stage of disease development, and the end of surgery is often the beginning of treatment. Therefore, perioperative treatment of tumors is the essence of Chinese medicine, and it is also the link that can best reflect the characteristics of Chinese medicine. Enhancing the level of TCM participation is the key to perioperative treatment of tumors. Pre-operative regulation of Chinese medicine allows patients to meet the surgery in the best state, especially in eliminating patients’ pre-operative fear by regulating their emotions and feelings, in which Chinese medicine plays a great role. Postoperatively, we should pay special attention to the treatment of common symptoms in the postoperative period, such as fever, cough, hiccups and diarrhea. For common postoperative symptoms such as fever, cough, eructation, vomiting, stool, insomnia, sweating, anxiety, mania, poor appetite, etc., Chinese medicine treatment has unique advantages, and is not the same as internal medicine treatment, for example, postoperative fever is often characterized by deficiency, stasis, phlegm, toxicity as the mechanism of the disease, and the treatment of differentiation is often able to achieve a satisfactory result. “Yin and Yang secret, the spirit is cured”, to surgery as the main means of treatment of post-surgical patients also need to realize the balance of the body’s qi and blood, yin and yang, the five organs and six bowels of the harmony. The concept of “balance” as the degree, “transportation” as the method, and “harmony” as the norm is exactly our clinical treatment concept. Through the clinical application of traditional Chinese medicine, such as oral administration, enema, external ironing, foot bathing and various forms of acupuncture and auricular acupuncture points, the quality of life of many patients has been improved after surgery, and the natural nature of traditional Chinese medicine and the certainty of its therapeutic efficacy have allowed us to reduce the dependence on chemically synthesized drugs in our clinical work, reduce the proportion of various types of Western medicines represented by antibiotics, and effectively reduce the hospitalization costs of patients, reduce economic pressure, and gain social recognition. Reduced economic pressure, recognized by the community. Focusing on pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative treatments, focusing on curing and preventing diseases, multi-angle and multi-targeting, and combining holistic diagnosis and individualized treatment constitute the characteristics of TCM treatment of tumors. For the follow-up treatment of primary surgery, Chinese medicine also has a wide scope of development at present. For example, there are direct anticancer Chinese medicines, such as Curcuma oil, Zanthoxylum, Corydalis oil, Cordyceps sinensis, and so on, and there are also anticancer modes with the traditional method of supporting the positive and dispelling the evil, such as Ginseng, Astragalus, Ganoderma lucidum, Cordyceps sinensis, Poria, Liuweidihuangwan, Xiao Chaihu Tang and other formulas which have significant effects in alleviating the toxic and side-effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and in enhancing the efficacy of the therapeutic effect, and so on. In addition, in the perioperative period, citing the research results of traditional Chinese medicine related to surgery, such as Cheng Qi Tang type of formula as the representative of the Tong Li Tapping method in abdominal surgery is widely used in both preoperative intestinal preparation and postoperative intestinal function recovery. It makes part of emergency surgery become elective surgery and surgery become non-surgical treatment, which obviously improves clinical efficacy and reduces patients’ pain. Postoperative comprehensive treatment, especially traditional Chinese medicine diet and conditioning is the hot spot of modern research, which can effectively improve the quality of patients’ postoperative survival and prevent the recurrence of the disease.