Ulcerative colitis is a kind of inflammatory bowel disease. The disease is slow and easy to relapse. Western medicine treatment mainly focuses on symptomatic treatment, which has certain side effects on liver and kidney function. Ulcerative colitis has unique advantages in disease, so by studying a large amount of information, mainly from the law of traditional Chinese medicine use of UC, and a brief summary of the treatment of TCM syndromes, this article provides ideas and basis for clinical diagnosis and treatment of the disease.