Venous ulcer of the lower extremities is a common disease and frequently occurring disease. Because of its long course and repeated attacks, it can bring heavy burden to patients, families and society. Therefore, it is extremely important to study effective treatment methods and drugs. Through consulting recent literatures, the author finds that external treatment of TCM is easy to operate and has obvious curative effect and is widely applied. In this paper, the external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine combined acupuncture and moxibustion, combined operation of traditional Chinese medicine, and other methods of treatment of traditional Chinese medicine were summarized.