中医营养是在中医理论指导下，研究运用食物保健强身，防治疾病，促进机体康复的一门学科，涉及食物本草、 饮食养生、饮食治疗、饮食节制、饮食宜忌等诸多方面的内容，是临床营养治疗的重要组成部分。本文探讨了中医营养在 肿瘤预防、治疗及转归等方面有着不可忽视的作用。中医营养通过以食养生，以食疗病的手段，在饮食指导、饮食调整、 饮食咨询等方面发挥优势，同时采取以病为本，辨证施食的治法，可保存人体正气，调理脾胃，辨体治疗，增强抗病能力， 达到整体治疗的效果。并进一步总结中医营养在肿瘤临床研究的不足，今后运用中医辨证施治理论，将食疗与肠内营养有 机结合起来，成立营养治疗团队，形成完善的营养筛查、营养评估、中西医营养治疗体系，进行深入的中医营养治疗大数 据研究，总结中医营养治疗相关指南和共识，建立中医营养特色门诊，完善家庭营养监测与随访制度，宣传中医营养知识 的专业科普工作，充分发挥中医营养在肿瘤综合治疗中的作用，构建特色的肿瘤中西医结合营养治疗体系

 TCM nutrition is discipline which is concidered with health improvement, prevention of disease, and promotion of physical rehabilitation by food under the guidance of the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It is an important part of clinical nutritional therapy. It involves many aspects such as herbal food, diet regimen, diet therapy, diet control and taboo of food. The article discusses the role of TCM nutrition in the prevention, treatment and prognosis of tumor. TCM nutrition takes advantage of diet guidance, diet adjustment and diet counseling based on the positive effects of food on health improvement and disease treatment. At the same time, it utilizes the treatment based on disease and dialectical feeding and can preserve the body's positive gas, regulate spleen and stomach, treat disease based on syndrome differentiation, enhance the ability of disease resistance, and thereby,  treat desease as a whole. It further summarizes the deficiency of TCM nutrition in the clinical research of tumor. In the future, the dialectical treatment theory of TCM will be used to combine diet therapy with enteral nutrition and set up a nutritional therapy team to form a perfect system of nutritional screening, nutritional assessment, and Chinese and Western medicine nutritional therapy. To carry out an in-depth study on the big data of TCM nutritional therapy and summarize the relevant guidelines and consensus of TCM nutritional therapy. To establish the outpatient clinic of TCM nutrition so as to improve the family nutritional monitor and followup, furthermore, to publicize professional knowledge of TCM nutrition. As a result, to have TCM nutrition play a crutial role in the treatment of tumor, and build a characteristic combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine nutritional therapy system.