ABSTRACT
Animal-derived medicinal materials as the integral part play an extremely important role in the application of Chinese material medica (CMM), which are considered to have the advantages of strong activity, great potential, and wide applications. With the increasing demands for animal-derived medicinal materials, a large number of counterfeit, inferior, and confusing products have appeared in the market, which has seriously affected the use and quality evaluation of animal-derived medicinal materials. At the same time, the research development on identification and quality evaluation of animal-derived medicinal materials is slower than that of plant-derived medicinal materials, and the system is weak, especially lacking of characteristic and exclusive identification index and evaluation means. Therefore, how to establish and perfect the quality evaluation system of animal-derived medicinal materials is particularly important and will become the focus and hot work in the future. In this paper, the research progress of animal-derived medicinal materials identification and quality evaluation methods is summarized, and the problems and challenges in constructing its quality evaluation system are analyzed, so as to provide reference and new ideas for the establishment and improvement of animal medicine quality evaluation system.