In recent years

great progress has been made in the quality control of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)

a series of research strategies and methods have been put forward successively by scholars at home and abroad.With the extensive application of fingerprint

multi-measurement with a single standard

multi-component thin-layer chromatography in the 2015 edition of Chinese Pharmacopoeia

the framework of the whole quality control of TCM is more and more clear.In the meantime

some scholars put forward the concept of standard decoction of prepared slices of Chinese crude drugs

and they described the connotation and denotation of standard decoction initially

and summed up its preparation technology and quality control method.This paper defined the concept of standard decoction and discussed its properties and preparation methods;and illustrated its function and significance in product development

quality control

and post-marketing drug evaluation of single or classical formulas.The whole quality control mode of TCM based on standard decoction were investigated based on case analysis.The paper provides a method and reference for the whole quality control of TCM.