Abstract
In 2006, the Hepatology Committee, Chinese Association of the Integration of Traditional and Western Medicine issued the "Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Liver Fibrosis with Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine" . In recent years, in the field of modern medicine and integrated Chinese and Western medicine, the basic and clinical research into chronic liver disease has made rapid progress, and accumulated new evidence for the prevention and treatment of liver fibrosis. Therefore, in order to meet the clinical needs, experts of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine of liver diseases were united to revise the previous guidelines in order to help physicians make correct and reasonable decisions in the diagnosis and treatment of liver fibrosis.