title: [Research status and prospect of primary processing of traditional Chinese medicinal materials].
abstract: The primary processing is important links and closely related to the quality of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, and is not only cleaning of remove the non-officinal parts, drying for termination the physiological status of organisms, but also retaining the most active substances, decreasing the toxic components, and promoting the transformation among chemical ingredients through primary processing. So the traditional primary processing endows with characters, quality, specifications and properties of traditional Chinese medicine, and embodies some important science truth. The traditional primary processing method and technology systems are derived from the long-term practices and experiences, which are distinctive, colorful, diverse, and scientific, which are helpful to development and utilization of traditional Chinese medicine resources. This paper systemically expounds the research status of the Chinese medicine processing method, summarizes the problems in the primary processing of traditional Chinese medicinal materials research, and prospects its bright future.
authors.forename: Lin-wei
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Kun-ming
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Yan-hui
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Wei-dong
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Bao-chang
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Cai
mesh_terms: D002626:Chemistry, Pharmaceutical / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal