中药炮制是祖国医药遗产的组成部分,长期以来它同中医临床相结合,在防病治病中发挥着重要作用.近年来的科学研究表明,不少中药经过炮制后,不仅有量变,亦可以起到质变.因此,炮制品入药组方,是中医用药的一大特点.现就炮制与临床疗效的重要性,简要作一综述.一、从历代文献看中药炮制对临床治疗的重要性历代170余种有关炮制书籍中所记载的炮制品,到目前为止的有520种之多.解放后卫生部主编的《中 Traditional Chinese medicine is an integral part of the motherland’s medical heritage. For a long time, it has been combined with the clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine to play an important role in disease prevention and treatment. Recent scientific research shows that after many Chinese medicines are processed, they not only have quantitative changes, but also can It is a qualitative change. Therefore, the use of processed products as a component of Chinese medicine is a major feature of traditional Chinese medicine. Now the importance of concocting and clinical curative effect is briefly reviewed. First, the importance of traditional Chinese medicine concocting to clinical treatment has been examined from historical documents. More than 170 kinds of processed products recorded in concocted books are up to 520 so far.