肺痿是指肺叶痿弱不用的慢性虚损性肺系疾病，为多种肺系疾病的慢性转归，预后不佳。近年来，中医药治疗肺痿的研究作为一项热点，取得了一定的成果。本文从肺痿的病因病机、辨证分型、中医药治疗等方面进行概述，为肺痿的中医药治疗提供理论基础和依据。

Pulmonary asthenia is one of the chronic consumptive lung diseases because of the weakness of pulmonary lobe. It would be the outcome of many chronic lung diseases with poor prognosis. In recent years, preventing and treating pulmonary asthenia by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been one of the research focuses and some fruits have been received. This paper summarized pulmonary asthenia from the aspects of etiology and pathogenesis, syndrome differentiation, TCM treatment so as to provide theoretical basis and proofs for treatment of pulmonary asthenia by TCM.

郑州市科技局科技人才队伍建设计划-科技领军人才项目（131PJRC659）：COPD相关疾病中医证候诊断标准及关键技术研究，负责人：李建生；国家自然科学基金委青年科学基金项目（81303067）：基于中医治疗COPD临床试验建立数据混杂因素的控制方法研究，负责人：谢洋。