流行性感冒的全球性大流行，一直是世人關注的焦點。過去醫療史多重視西醫與公共衛生制度在台灣社會所扮演的角色，反觀中醫藥在歷次疫情中所能發揮的作用，卻缺乏關注。中醫藥如何和台灣現代疾病史發生關係？以流感為例，應該要有一篇文章加以梳理。當1918年的大流感疫情侵襲台灣，甚至整個東亞社會的時候，其實不少人是藉著中醫藥來抗疫的，但是隨著西方醫學逐步傳入、強化，中醫藥角色變得晦暗不彰，故本文希望梳理現代台灣流感疫情與中醫藥的關係，探索中醫對抗疫情的可能。礙於篇幅，且流感幾乎每年或至少每幾年就會有一次大流行，故本文只針對較為嚴重且引起公眾媒體討論、爭議的部分來加以梳理；若屬個別中醫對流感治療心得與經驗，卻不見於公眾媒體者，則不列入探討重點，避免失之駁雜。本文分析主要著重勾勒疫情發展之大略情況，釐清人們對抗疫情之方式，重點探討中醫藥的角色，並評述其得失。

The global pandemic of influenza has been a concern of the world. Past medical history mostly paid attention to the roles of western medicine and the public health system in the society of Taiwan, however, the focus on the effect of Chinese medicine in the past pandemics is absent. What is the relation between Chinese medicine and the modern illness history of Taiwan? A study should be conducted using influenza as an example. When the pandemic of influenza in 1918 struck Taiwan and to the whole East Asia society, many people fought back the illness by Chinese medicine. However, with the successive introduction and reinforcement of western medicine, the role of Chinese medicine became ambiguous. Thus, this study intends to explore the relation between the modern pandemic of influenza in Taiwan and Chinese medicine and the possibility to cope with the situation via Chinese medicine. Due to the limitation on the article length and since the pandemic of influenza happens every year or every several years, this study only discussed the more serious and controversial aspects of the influenza pandemic. The experience of influenza treatments by specific Chinese medicine not shown in public media was excluded from the discussion for the prevention of losing the focus of this study. After giving a rough situation of the pandemic, the analysis focused on clarifying the general publics’ method in fighting against the pandemic, probing into the role of Chinese medicine and elaborating on the advantages and disadvantages of Chinese medicine.