Abstract: OBJECTIVE To explore the medication rule of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of allergic rhinitis (AR). METHODS Took "traditional Chinese medicine" and "allergic rhinitis" as subject headings, this paper searched the relevant periodical literature of CNKI, Wanfang Data and VIP Chinese periodical service platform(January 2010 to January 2019), collected the prescriptions recorded in the literature, established a database and carried out statistical analysis. Used Excel 2013, SPSS Modeler 14.1 and SPSS Statistics 19.0 statistical software, the association rule analysis and factor analysis were carried out on the included traditional Chinese medicines. RESULTS One hundred and forty seven prescriptions conforming to the standard were included, included 175 Chinese medicines with a total frequency of 1 427 times. Among the 175 Chinese medicines included, there were 57 kinds of Chinese medicines with frequency ≥ 5. Among the efficacy categories, drugs for relieving exterior syndrome and deficiency-nourishing were the most common, accounting for 72.84%. The pungent and warm drugs were the most common drugs in the medicinal flavor. Classification of meridian tropism included lung meridian, spleen meridian and stomach meridian. In association rule analysis, 10 combinations of drug pairs with the highest association intensity were found, and 6 common factors were extracted from factor analysis. CONCLUSION AR is mainly treated by relieving exterior syndrome and combines with deficiency-tonifying drugs.