Impotence is a common clinical sexual dysfunction, which refers to a condition in which the penis cannot get an erection during sexual intercourse, or has an erection but is not hard enough, or the erection lasts too short to complete the whole process of sexual intercourse, which is described in Chinese medicine as “yang but no erection, erection but not firm, firm but not long”. The manifestations of impotence are various. The penis may not be erect or not hard enough under any circumstances; it may not be erect during sexual excitement, but spontaneously erect at night, during sleep, or when holding urine in the morning; or it may have a good erection at the beginning of sexual excitement, but not hard enough to complete sexual intercourse before entering the vagina or soon after entering the vagina. Impotence often causes great physical and mental distress to patients, and some patients seek medication on their own. When it comes to impotence treatment, many people will think of “kidney aphrodisiac” Chinese medicine, but after taking such drugs, some people are effective, some are ineffective, and some are even aggravated, why is this? The kidney tonic is one of the common methods of treating impotence and is widely used in clinical practice, and it does work well for some patients, but not for all. Chinese medicine classifies impotence into various types of evidence, such as kidney yang deficiency, kidney yin deficiency, liver qi stagnation, damp-heat injection, blood stasis, spleen and stomach qi deficiency, and frightening injury to the kidney. The main application of kidney tonics is for patients with kidney yang deficiency, while other types are not suitable for the use of kidney tonics alone. From the current situation of patients, there are two types of impotence that are increasing significantly, especially in young patients, one is the liver qi stagnation type, and the other is the damp heat injection type, both of which are not suitable for using kidney tonics. The first is the liver qi stagnation type impotence. Due to the current accelerated pace of social life, the pressure of work and life, social anxiety is obvious, whether the largest number of workers, members of the farmers group, or the situation is still relatively good cadres, members of the entrepreneurial group, whether residents of the eastern region, or residents of the western region, many people have anxiety and restlessness. Being in this state of anxiety, depression, and stressful life for a long time can lead to loss of liver circulation, lack of qi and blood flow, and loss of filling of the zong tendons, resulting in impotence and inactivity. This type is treated with herbs that soothe the liver and relieve depression. The next type of impotence is the damp-heat infusion type. At present, with the improvement of living standards, the diet structure tends to westernize, junk food floods the market, people increasingly consume high fat, high protein, high sugar and other high-calorie food and high salt food; social entertainment, eating large fish and meat, fat, sweet and greasy opportunities, smoking and drinking more; many people for various reasons, physical exercise is also less, resulting in excess nutrition can not be consumed in a timely manner. In the long run, the brewed dampness generates heat, blocking the middle jiao internally and steaming the liver and gallbladder, resulting in impotence due to the downward injection of dampness and heat into the zong tendons. This type of impotence should be treated with herbs that clear heat and dampness. In addition, due to the differences in physical constitution, living environment, various causes and duration of the disease, many patients often have not just one type of impotence, but a mixture of two or even more types, such as spleen and kidney deficiency, kidney deficiency and liver depression, kidney deficiency and liver depression and damp-heat, etc. In this case, the use of herbs is more multifaceted. In this case, the medication needs to be considered in many aspects and used in an integrated manner, instead of simply tonifying the kidneys and aphrodisiacs, a variety of methods must be used in an integrated manner in order to achieve the desired results.