Tuberculosis belongs to the category of “consumption” in traditional Chinese medicine, and its herbal treatment should be carried out according to the evidence. Commonly used traditional Chinese medicine formulas include Yuehua Pill, Lily Solid Gold Soup, and Baozhen Soup, etc., but the specific efficacy of the treatment may have some individual differences. 1. Yuehua Pill: It is composed of asparagus, mammon dong, Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparatae, Fructus Momordicae and other traditional Chinese medicines, which has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs (replenishing yin to moisturize the lungs), suppressing cough and relieving asthma, etc. The symptoms of this medicine are dry cough with short cough, or small amount of mucous sputum or sputum with blood in it, or blood dots. 2. Lily Solid Gold Soup: composed of Lily, Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Radix Paeoniae Alba and other traditional Chinese medicines, it can nourish the lungs and kidneys, relieve cough and resolve phlegm. It can be used in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis with the symptoms of yin deficiency and fire exuberance (deficiency of yin and essence in the body and hyperactivity of deficiency fire), such as choking, coughing and shortness of breath, sputum with little viscous sputum or spitting of thick yellow sputum, hemoptysis, zygomatic redness (redness of cheeks and zygomatic bones), insomnia and heartache, hot flashes (a burst of heat, feeling that the heat is penetrating from inside the bones to the outside), and heartburn and fever (fever in the hearts of the hands and the feet, and feeling that the heart and chest are irritated and hot). 3. Baozhen Tang: composed of ginseng, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Radix Astragali and other traditional Chinese medicines, it has the efficacy of benefiting qi and nourishing yin to clear heat (nourishing yin essence and clearing away the heat), and can be used in the treatment of patients with tuberculosis who are suffering from the depletion of qi and yin, and the symptoms of which include coughing, weakness, shortness of breath with a low voice, sputum that is clear and thin and white in color, sputum that is light and reddish in color, pale color of blood, and white face. Tuberculosis patients who want to use traditional Chinese medicine therapy, should also be based on their own specific symptoms in the physician’s diagnostic guidance, not blindly self-medication.