Abstract: Traditional Chinese medicine plays a very important role in the prevention and treatment of diseases of the people,with the gradual improvement of people's awareness of health care, higher requirements are put forward for the management, content, form, etc. of TCM science popularization, in the existing mode, because of various conditions, there are still many deficiencies in the popularization of Chinese medicine science education, for example, the responsibilities and powers of the competent departments and executive departments are not clear, the content of Chinese medicine science is not uniform, the publicity method is single, and the audience is polarized. On the basis of analyzing the specific causes, the author proposes measures to improve popular science education layer by layer, for example, clarify the rights and responsibilities of popular science education, formulate relatively unified popular science content, adopt a variety of forms of popular science publicity, adapt measures to local conditions, and expand the objects of popular science education.

Key words: Chinese medicine, popular science education, deficiencies and countermeasures