Clementine， one of the commonly used tools in data mining， is also widely used in the field of data mining in Traditional Chinese Medicine， and its association rule analysis is one of the most extensiveiy used methods of data mining. This essay summarizes the current situation of the application of Clementine SPSS association rules analysis method in the research of Chinese Medicine. It’s mainly used in those aspects such as the inheritance of experience of the old famous prescriptions of acupuncture and moxibustion research association rules mining， In addition， the author summarized the deficiency of association rules used in the research of traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore we should not only limit to existing aspects， but also dig out from muti-angle and deep fields in order to get more useful knowledge to guide future clinical later on.