Abstract: With the development of society and the improvement of people's living standards and health awareness, the modern medical model has shifted from traditional treatment to prevention and health care, and people's demand for products with the same origin of medicine and food is constantly increasing. In order to fully leverage the unique advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, explore the functions of traditional Chinese medicine with the same origin in medicine and food, as well as the "prevention and treatment of diseases", and promote the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine, this article systematically summarizes and analyzes the origin and historical evolution of "medicine and food homology" in China, relevant regulations and policies on medicine and food homology, research status, key technologies, and existing problems of medicine and food homology products. Based on this, strategies and suggestions are proposed to solve the above problems, in order to provide references for the research and development of medicine and food homologous products.