Chinese herbal medicine for herniated lumbar disc can be divided into internal medicine based on Chinese herbal prescriptions, and external medicine based on Chinese herbal fumigation and plastering, which include the following: 1. Chinese herbal prescriptions: Chinese herbal prescriptions that invigorate blood stasis, restrain wind and stop spasm, warm the lining and disperse cold, and nourish the liver and kidney should be the main ones, such as Duluxu Yaisheng Tang, Body Pain and Stasis Soup, Qiangwu Shengwetang, etc. Through the internal use of Chinese medicine, it helps to eliminate inflammation, improve blood circulation, promote the recovery of local nerve and muscle function, thus improving the symptoms of lumbar disc herniation; 2. Chinese medicine fumigation: you can use some drugs that warm the meridians and disperse cold, and relieve pain by fumigation, such as safflower, hyssop, sinker, wei ling xian, earth turtle worm, stretch grass, cinnamon, papaya, clove, myrrh, Chuanxiong, Chuan Wu, etc. For herniated lumbar disc caused by wind, cold and dampness, paralysis and obstruction of meridians, it has a certain therapeutic effect; 3. Ointment paste: For the treatment of herniated lumbar disc, the following kinds of ointments are usually chosen to invigorate blood and relieve pain, such as blood circulation and stasis paste, musk chasing wind paste and rheumatism paste. Patients can also use some hot paste, which can effectively release the spasm of sacral spine muscle. Chinese medicine treatment is based on evidence-based treatment and requires different prescriptions according to the course of the disease. In the acute stage or the early stage of lumbar disc herniation, we can take the addition and subtraction of “Sparing the tendons and activating the blood”, which can activate the blood and relax the tendons to relieve the symptoms in the acute stage, with specific drugs such as red peony, gweiwei, sliced ginger yellow, stretching the tendons, sequestra, douhu and licorice. In the chronic stage or when the disease is longer, you can use tonifying kidney and tendon soup to nourish the liver and kidneys, promote paralysis and activate the collaterals, the specific drugs are rehmanniae, dogwood, white peony, dulcimer, Wujia Pi, etc.