In recent years, autism spectrum disorder, as a type of mental development disorder, has received increasing attention from scholars. This article summarizes some effective treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of this disease in recent years, in order to understand the new treatment ideas of frontline doctors in clinical practice.

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