TCM,with thousands of years of history,is a treasure of the Chinese nation .Basic Theory of TCM is under the in-fluence and guidance of the ancient idea of the formation of materialism and dialectics to strength theory as the cornerstone of the framework of the theory of yin and yang.TCM language is highly concentrated and unique culture,in terms of traditional Chinese medicine into English,the English translation of the term culture is especially important.This paper,under the guid-ance of the limits of the theory,analyzes TCM terms translatability limit problems of the rich cultural information common Eng-lish translation from the "source culture"perspective,and presents limits translation method combining with previous research results for others''reference.