Fermented medicine is commonly used fermented processed products of traditional Chinese medicine

due to complexity of prescription form and fermentation process

quality control and assessment of fermented medicine are common problems faced in industry.Currently

quality standards of fermented medicine is not coincide with each other

but shows confusing

incomplete and lack of evaluation index to reflect fermentation characteristics of fermented medicine

resulting in many difficulties in quality control and evaluation of fermented medicine in actual production.Based on herbal textual research of fermented medicine

this paper is arranging existing common problems of quality standards situation and research progress of quality standards

such as prescription

preparation and characters are various in each standards;identification

examination and content determination are incomplete and lacking of evaluation index to reflect fermentation characteristics of fermented medicine and so on

thinking and discussing according to these problems.We consider that prescription

preparation and characters of quality standards of fermented medicine should be standardized firstly

then identification

examination and content determination should be completed

besides

evaluation index to reflect fermentation characteristics of fermented medicine should be built

thus providing ideas and references for unification

completion and improvement of quality standards of fermented medicine.