Abstract: Hyperthyroidism is a frequently-occurring endocrine disease. Aantithyroid drugs, surgery and radioactive iodine therapy are currently accepted and effective methods of treatment for hyperthyroidism. Years of clinical practices and a lot of researches on each of the three treatment methods to further deepen the understanding of the characteristics, the choice of treatment for hyperthyroidism tend to have a new change. After comparing and evaluating the three treatments for hyperthyroidism, most scholars believe that radioactive iodine therapy to treat hyperthyroidism will maintain its unique position before the physiological treatment for hyperthyroidism is uncertainly discoveried in the future.