The national medicine is an important part of Chinese traditional medicine，it plays a decisive role whether in history or in the modern. Since 2006，China promulgated the first batch list of national intangible cultural heritage，total approved 13 national ethnic medicine list of intangible cultural heritage and 28 minority representative successors of the intangible cultural heritage project，lay a good foundation for the effective protection and inheritance of ethnic minority medicine. However，China national medicine also exist some problems，such as lack of representative list of national intangible cultural heritage，the quantity of representative successors is insufficient，and the team construction is not coordinated，industrialization development is not unreasonable，intellectual property protection is not optimistic. Therefore，practical policies of the future ethnic minority medicine can be effective inheritance is to speed up steps of traditional medicine single project declaration and approval，establish the echelon reasonable，perfect structure，hierarchical heritage team，accelerate the pace of innovation of national medicine by using new technology，and pay attention to the protection of intellectual property rights of ethnic minority medicine.