The favorable natural and social conditions have broughtup abundantresources of medical plants in the Tianshan Mountains Area, China.This area is a region where many nationalities such as Uygue nat ionality, Han nat ionality, Mongolia nat ionality, Hui nat ionality, Kazak nationality and so on live in compact communities from ancient time.The Ugur medicine, Mongolia medicine and traditional Chinese medicine are overlapped there.All these conditions make these medical plants playing a importantrole in the people struggling against disease in this area.There are about more than 200 species medical plants there and according to their funct ions these plants can be classified into 16 classifications. There are some serious problems about the protection and u-tilization of these resources.In this paper, these problems are analyzed and the count ermeasures are put for-ward, for example: about the aim, the relat ionship between protection and utilization has been clarified; about the utilization, the research of appreciation has been put forward; about the protection, the point of view that transforming the negative protection into the positive protect ion has been put forward.