Abstract: Carbonized traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a kind of distinctive traditional medicine， which has been widely used to cure various bleeding syndromes in clinic. Stir-frying processing is the most commonly used pharmaceutical technology to obtain carbonized TCM. 8.2% of processing related projects approved by the National Natural Science Foundation of China were focusing on carbonized processing in the past twenty years. Although researches on carbonized TCM have achieved fantastic results， there are still many problems in the researches of processing technology and equipment， quality evaluation and processing mechanism. This article reviewed the current status of carbonized TCM researches and provided some feasible strategies. To deeply discuss the hemostatic mechanism of carbonized TCM， it's necessary to build a research platform integrating the advantages of multiple disciplines. Meanwhile， emerging technologies should be introduced in processing and equipment optimization researches to realize digital and intelligent production. Besides， researches on the characteristic quality standards and the key technologies for identifying the specific quality of commonly used carbonized TCM are also an important node. It's hoped that this review could promote the researches on common processing mechanism of carbonized TCM and boost the development of processing discipline.