Proposition and practice on "integrative quality" in quality control for Chinese materia medica

The issue about the quality control for Chinese materia medica (CMM) has been one of the main bottlenecks to restrict CMM modernization. For a long time,finding and determining the indicative constituents have been the basic way for the establishment of CMM quality standard,by which there are many inherent defects such as inaccuracy and little relationship between quality and effects. To get a radical and significant breakthrough in the investigation on the quality control of CMM,the proposition "integrative quality of CMM" and it's preliminary performance route have been put forward in this paper. And its main aim is to provide some creative and practical ideas as well as methods for the establishment of CMM quality control standard,and to meet with the requirements that the quality control standards for CMM should be effectiveness-related,quantitative and accurate,controllable and assessable.