The processing technology of traditional Chinese medicine is a specific means to reflect the selection of medicine based on illness, flexible medication, and the ensurance of the safety and effectiveness of medication. It reflects the characteristics and advantages of rational medication in traditional Chinese medicine, and has distinctive regional characteristics. It is a unique wisdom crystallization of traditional Chinese medicine medication. However, there are issues such as disciplinary refinement that undermines the effective integration of traditional Chinese medicine, insufficient emphasis on the inheritance and protection of processing technology, and multiple problems with traditional Chinese medicine processed products. This article inherits the wisdom of predecessors and analyzes the characteristics and existing problems of traditional Chinese medicine processing technology, and proposes ideas including using modern scientific technology to consolidate processing theory and technology, supporting the protection of intellectual property rights in traditional Chinese medicine processing technology, activating a new engine for the development of traditional Chinese medicine processing talents, standardizing the processing standards/norms of traditional Chinese medicine, and inheriting and developing traditional Chinese medicine processing technology through effective integration of various industries and responsibilities, aiming at providing reference and reference for the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese medicine processing technology.