From the perspective of dietetic therapy of traditional Chinese medicine,analyzing of the Yunnan national minorities diet therapy research status. We have discovered diet and therapy have a common resource and containing abundant food therapy health care knowledge and valuable medicinal value at Yunnan minority area. But there are less research literature, single research methods, unspecific research contents, and more concentrated in the theory of surface. The foreign food culture of invasive today, many of the minority nationalities in the original diet culture gradual variation or even disappear. Excavation and protection of heritage of ethnic medicine and food culture, is an important medical and social significance and broad application prospects.