The studies on the effective compounds of decoction are the key on the development of Traditonal Chinese Medicines. A review

including the progression and methods on the effective compounds of decoction

was made

based on the summary of many reports.At the same time

some hard problems were analyzed

such as how to choose the experiment object

sample preparation and mensuration

to verify the effective components.The deeper intercommunion among the correlative subjects and a flood of new thoughts would accelerate the study of decoctions.