Research frontiers of Chinese medicine pharmaceutics: foundations and key issues of components preparation technology

Based on the integrity and systematicness of Chinese medicine, the components preparation simplifies the complex problems of multi-components of Chinese medicine, provides an effective and feasible model for the development of Chinese medicine preparation. It has become a hot topic in the research of prep-aration, and is also considered as one of the effective ways to realize the modernization of Chinese medicine. Based on the previous research on multi-components and the work of our research group, the research frontiers of multi-components are elucidated, including the properties and characterization techniques of components, the construction of components release unit, and the multiple drug delivery system. The purpose of this paper is to explore the technical basis and key problem of components preparation, and then bring some inspiration and thought to the relevant researchers.