To provide research ideas and theoretical basis for relevant researches through summarizing on evaluation methods of pulmonary inhalation either in vivo or in vitro. Classifying various evaluation methods of pulmonary inhalation according to their characteristics after collecting

analyzing and concluding related 27 articles in last decade from the databases of CNKI

PubMed

ScienceDirect. Predominant evaluation methods were listed as follows:cascade impactor method

modern optic instruments method

pharmacodynamic evaluation method

pharmacokinetic evaluation method

intrapulmonary deposition method and so on. Currently

there were many problems yet to be solved for evaluation methods of pulmonary inhalation

for example

correlation between in vivo and in vitro evaluation methods was low

methods were single of pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic evaluation

animal models were not conforming to real situation of human body and safety assessment system was imperfect.All of these should be gradually improved and perfected in the future studies.