ABSTRACT
The medicinal science has been plagued by drug resistance of bacteria and antibiotic medicine with side effect for years. The problem could not be solved only by the chemistry medicine treatment. For thousand years, Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) had made a significant contribution to people's health and has played an important role in preventing and controlling bacterial infection in the near centuries. As wide sources, less side effect, and less resistant to bacterial, TCM drew a great attention in anti-infection recently. Following the literature and clinic trial reports in the lastest 15 years, we summarized the studies on the bacteria-resistance and therapy of traditional Chinese and Western medicines, and analysed the researches on the antibacterial effects of compound TCM, single Chinese herbs, and chemical components from herbs. The results will provide the new ideas on the application and development of TCM with anti-infection.