The invention relates to a low glue consumption method for making a medium density fiberboard, which comprises the following steps of: material preparation, i.e. processing the raw materials of small dimension wood, brush wood and the like into wood chips by adopting a drum chipper; fiber preparation, i.e. sending qualified wood chips to a wood chip cooking pot through a belt conveyor, introducing papermaking waste liquid into a boiler to carry out cooking softening treatment after filtering the papermaking waste liquid, sending the wood chips which are cooked and preheated into a thermofiner to carry out mechanical separation through a feeding screw, and filling molten wax before the wood chips enter a grinding chamber body of the thermofiner, so that after the wood chips are separated into the fibers, the wax is uniformly distributed on the surfaces of the fibers; sizing and drying of the fibers, wherein a production process of firstly sizing and then drying is adopted; pavement and formation of a board blank; hot-press forming, i.e. sending the single board blank into a hot press to carry out hot pressing through a loader, so that under the combined action of heat and pressure, moisture in the board blank is gasified and evaporated, the density of the board blank is improved, glue is cured and a waterproof agent is redistributed; and post-processing, i.e. finally, sending the obtained product into a sanding machine to carry out surface processing. The low glue consumption method for making the medium density fiberboard is simple and convenient.