In current quality standard of Chinese herbal pieces

reference crude herb is one of standard material in its quality control

identification

inspection and so on of most Chinese herbal pieces are all described as the words ofthe same as herb.However

Chinese herbal pieces as a direct applied drugs

its description

active components

functions and indications and so on are different from that of crude herbs.Using quality standards of crude herbs to control quality of Chinese herbal pieces is unreasonable

unscientific and can not meet need of quality control of Chinese herbal pieces.Aimed at problems of some unreasonable items and lack of specificity in quality standards of Chinese herbal pieces

we proposed a thread that control pieces can be used as one of effective standard materials in quality control of Chinese herbal pieces on the basis of summary these relative articles.In this paper

we put forward strategies to corresponding problems after in-depth analysis and thinking on crude medicinal materials

supplement materials

processing technologies and other relative aspects in process of preparing control pieces.Furthermore

we also expected advantages of application and research directions in the future of control pieces.