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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 2 Primary osteoporosis in Chinese medicine research [Keywords:] Osteoporosis Osteoporosis is a common disease of older persons, from the entire world view, 60 years of age or older the proportion of the total population is increasing, while according to 2000 census of China’s first five results, prediction of the original onset of osteoporosis number around 88 million people, accounting for 6.97% of the total population aged over 60, women suffering from postmenopausal osteoporosis and senile osteoporosis, men over the age of 75 will suffer from senile bone osteoporosis [1]. Elderly vertebral fractures, the incidence of hip fracture increased, complications of serious, often long-term bed rest, loss of life skills, the mortality rate as high as 15% ~ 30%, so senile osteoporosis prevention and treatment in modern medical profession is not only the problems to be solved, is also a socialization. Whether male or female under 40 years of age, place of osteoporosis are increasing, which is characterized by reduced bone mass, especially involving the spine, femoral head and the end of long bones, bone size, density, reduced; have acute and chronic low back pain . Sometimes a minor trauma can be caused by vertebral compression fractures, femoral head fracture and long bone fracture side. However, there is no other bone metabolic diseases possess biochemical and radiological abnormalities. Osteoporosis accounts for 90% of osteoporosis, sub-I and Ⅱ . I type: postmenopausal osteoporosis, occurs in 55 to 70-year-old post-menopausal women; Ⅱ type: senile osteoporosis, occurs in over 70 years old men and women. Chinese traditional medicine on human growth and development of bone metabolism in the aging process of organic change in the system and improve the existing knowledge. Chinese medicine has always maintained that kidney essence, kidney and gas-filling of the essence to support the viscera in charge of human health, long, strong, old, alread