The invention discloses a degraded lake restoration method which comprises the following steps: building an artificial wetland surround a degraded lake; establishing aquatic plants along the bank of the degraded lake, wherein the aquatic plants adopt one or any combination of lotus, reed, cattail, calamus, banana-plant, water chestnut, gorgon fruit, canna, pontederia cordata, Chinese pennisetum, scirpoides holoschoenus, rhizoma alismatis, ottelia acuminate, tape grass, hornwort, ottelia alismoides, hydrilla and duckweed; adding a flocculating agent into the degraded lake, wherein the adding amount of the flocculating agent is 20 to 300 g per cubic meter, the flocculating agent comprises polymeric silicate, polyaluminium chloride and polyaluminium sulfate, and the mass ratio of the polymeric silicate to the polyaluminium chloride to the polyaluminium sulfate is (0.5-2):(1-20):(1-20); putting microbial agents in the degraded lake, wherein eutrophic water-resistant animals are bred in the water. By the degraded lake restoration method, the degraded lake can be ecological restored effectively. The dissolved oxygen content of the degraded lake is obviously increased, and the chemical oxygen demand, the ammonia nitrogen content, the total phosphorus content and the total nitrogen content are obviously reduced.