Severe acute pancreatitis is a clinically common imminent serious disease.The disease development easily causes toxic enteroparalysis and intestinal function failure.There have been quite normalized treatments for severe acute pancreatitis combined with intestinal failure in modern medicine， such as inhibiting inflammatory reactions， improving microcirculation，protecting intestinal mucosa and so on.There are also various kinds of Chinese medicine treatments in preventing and treating intestinal failure， such as oral administration or intragastric administration of Chinese medicine，Chinese medicine enema and catharsis，point application，acupuncture and so on.The authors carried on the literature review in recent years on the general situation of integrated Chinese and western medicine for treating severe acute pancreatitis combined with intestinal failure，and provided a reference for adopting suitable treatments clinically for this disease.