RESUMEN
The processing of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) is a traditional pharmaceutical technology,which meets the development demand of the treatment based on syndrome differentiation of TCM. It is one of the important means to guarantee the quality of Chinese medicine and improve the clinical efficacy of TCM. Medical institutions of traditional Chinese medicine should take the advantages and characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine as the foundation, vigorously carry out processing technology for traditional Chinese medicine, rich clinical drug varieties of traditional Chinese medicine, and develop such characteristics of TCM as treatment based on syndrome differentiation and individualized drug treatment. The processing of temporary prescriptions is one of the important means to reflect the characteristics of TCM, and it is of great significance to improve the curative effect of TCM. Based on working practice, this paper summarized the development current status, significance, technical standards and samples of processing variety and methods etc in order to provide thoughts for the processing technology of temporary prescriptions in medical institutions.