Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of tuberculous pleurisy often plays an auxiliary role, often as an adjunctive treatment to anti-tuberculosis drugs, and is effective in controlling pleural effusion and pleural thickening caused by tuberculous pleurisy. Commonly used formulas are Wuling San and By-Drinking Soup. The formula of Wu Ling San and Wu Yin Tang has strong effect of cathartic lungs and eliminating drinks, strengthening the spleen and killing worms, which is more suitable for tuberculous exudative pleurisy, improving the efficacy of anti-tuberculosis, further prompting the pleural effusion to subside, reducing the pleural adhesion, and shortening the course of the disease obviously. Wu Ling San plus ginseng qi fu zheng drug addition and subtraction of the main, diarrhea and asthma (through the regulation of the lung qi to calm asthma), diuresis and swelling, in the western medicine on the basis of antituberculosis treatment, internal use of this formula of traditional Chinese medicine treatment, accelerate the patient pleural fluid absorption, reduce the occurrence of pleural adhesions, reduce the adverse effects of antituberculosis drugs and glucocorticosteroids. It should be noted that no matter what kind of traditional Chinese medicine treatment is used, it should be combined with regular anti-tuberculosis treatment (e.g. isoniazid, rifampicin, etc.), so as to avoid the disease from spreading and prolonging. The medication should be used according to the doctor’s prescription.