Abstract: Anorexia is a common disease of unusual ingestive behavior of human, and building animal model is helpful to the intensive study of this disease. The related report on anorexia modeling method is little in China, and there is insufficiency of animal model which is used in anorexia experimental study, which is related to heredity, mentality, physiology, environment and other factors. This paper makes an analysis on the common anorexia modeling method both at home and abroad and its advantage and disadvantage, and points out the current problems which exist in the process of developing and evaluating the TCM animal model.

Key words: Anorexia, Animal model, Pathogenesis, Research progress, Summary