运动性疲劳属于中医学“劳”、“虚劳”的范畴，介绍了中医对运动性疲劳的认识及补益和调理相结合的治则，从调节能源物质代谢、调节代谢产物、对自由基消除等方面总结多种中药抗疲劳的作用机制，并总结了一些抗疲劳复方的配伍依据和抗疲劳现代药理研究进展，为开发延缓和消除运动性疲劳药物提供参考。

Exercise-induced fatigue belongs to the “overstrain”, “consumptive disease” in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), this article expounds the understanding of TCM on the exercise-induced fatigue and the therapeutic principle of the combination of regulation and tonification, summarizes a variety of TCM anti-fatigue mechanism from the regulation of energy metabolism and metabolites, elimination of free radicals, and the modern pharmacological research progress in the compatibility of basis and fatigue resistance in some anti-fatigue prescriptions, so as to provide the references for the development of delaying and eliminating the drugs against the exercise-induced fatigue.