As a critical link during pharmaceutical process of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)

extraction is directly related to quality of drugs.So the key to technology transformation and upgrading of pharmaceutical equipment in Chinese materia medica enterprise is development of new extraction techniques

which concerns modernization of TCM.Based on grey mode of thinking

semi-bionic extraction mimics human gastroenteric environments to obtain extracts which contain more active compounds.This paper reviewed application of semi-bionic extraction as well as the emerging techniques (microwave

ultrasonic and enzyme) assisted semi-bionic extraction method in TCM extraction

and found remarkable advantages of semi-bionic extraction by comparing with traditional extraction method.