During the Spring and Autumn Period, the production and use of “paste” in Chinese medicine was recorded. The earliest discovered but lost ancient medical text, “Wu Xie Zhi Fang”, recorded more than 30 prescriptions of paste, which was called “paste” because of the paste paste used in its production. During the Warring States period, the “Recipe for Health” and the “Miscellaneous Treatment Formula” recorded a jujube paste made from boiled dates mashed into a paste. The earliest surviving medical text in China, the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, records two poultices, and the “Ling Shu? Carbuncles and Gangrene” contains the paste for the treatment of fierce gangrene and pus and rice gangrene, expanding the idea of the application of pig fat into the paste; “Ling Shu? Jing tendons” “cheek tendons have cold, it is anxious to lead the cheek to move the mouth, there is heat is the tendons relaxed longitudinal slow not win, so seclusion. Cure with horse paste ……”, recorded the external use of horse paste. In the Han and Tang dynasties, although the term “cream” was used, divided into two categories of internal and external use, but still mainly for internal use and treatment. The earliest record of internal use of ointment that is generally recognized is the decoction of large wu tou and pig’s hair with ointment recorded in Zhang Zhongjing’s Jin Kui Yao in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the process of making ointment by boiling water is more similar to that of modern ointment. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Chen Yanzhi’s “Xiao Pin Fang” contains the decoction of a single raw groundnut, which is the earliest tonic cream. In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao’s “Prepared Emergency Thousand Gold Essentials” had individual “decoction” formulas similar to modern cream formulas, which were prepared by decocting water to remove slag, extracting juice, and concentrating the process. During the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties, there was no clear distinction between the terms “cream” and “decoction”, but there was a tendency for “cream” to gradually replace “decoction”. The Ming and Qing dynasties were the mature stage of the development of ointment prescriptions. At this time, “cream” had become the special name for nourishing and tonic prescriptions, while “decoction” referred to water decoction. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was basically fixed, i.e., decocted with water for several times, concentrated the liquid and finally added honey to make the paste. During the Qing Dynasty, the application of cream prescriptions became more important and flexible. In modern times, the development and application of cream prescriptions has developed rapidly. With the change of disease spectrum, the improvement of national living standard and the strengthening of health care concept, coupled with the application of modern scientific research technology and modern processing tools, the convenient production and popularization of cream prescriptions have gradually become large scale, and they are widely prevalent in Jiangnan and South China in the winter season.