疲劳是一个十分复杂的生理病理现象，并受到多种因素的影响。很多中药都具有抗疲劳的活性，对于传统中药抗疲劳的研究，近年来取得了很大的进展。就近年来中药抗疲劳的作用机制做一总结,主要从清除自由基抗氧化、增加糖原、调节代谢产物、递质、酶等方面进行综述。

Fatigue is a complicated procession affected by multiple elements. Many kinds of herbal medicines have been proved effective for fatigue treatment. There has been great progress in the study on antifatigue function of traditional Chinese medicine in recent years. This paper summarizes the mechanisms of antifatigue function of Chinese medicine in the last decade, mainly from the aspects of free radical scavenging, antioxidation, glycogen storage increase and regulation of metabolic products, transmitters, relative enzymes etc.