Abstract: Mineral medicine is one of the three major components of traditional Chinese medicine and has a long history of clinical application. Chinese medicine processing is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine manufacturing technology with distinct characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine. It is an essential process for Chinese medicinal materials to become decoction pieces. The author's team analyzed the current status of the mineral medicine processing mechanism by collating and summarizing the relevant ancient books and literatures, and put forward development prospects in view of the deficiencies, in order to provide certain inspiration for the development of this field.