INTRODUCTIONrnTraditional medicine and modem medicine are considered as twomain medic al systems and exist cooperately in our countrylong-term. The formation of traditional nedicine goes back to ancienttimes. The author thinks that extent the principle and method ofmodem rehabilitation are similar on some extent with therapy ofhealth preserving of traditional Chinese medicine. The later mainlystudy the contents of building body and preventing disease in order toprolong the time of life. It is essential of bringing into play thetherapy of health preserving of traditional Chinese medicine forbuilding the system of modem rehalbilitation having Chinese charac-teristics. Through developing and popularizing the therapy of healthpreserving of traditional Chinese medicine, the development of mod-ern rehabilitation can be accelerated.rn