RESUMO
Orally disintegrating tablets is a special tablet that can disintegrate rapidly in the mouth without taking with water. It has the advantages of rapid disintegration, high bioavailability, convenient utilization and so on. The orally disintegrating tablets of Chinese materia medica (CMM) have developed rapidly in recent years, which provides a new way of thinking for the treatment of acute diseases. At the same time, the orally disintegrating tablets of CMM are faced with many problems, such as poor taste, slow disintegration, imperfect quality evaluation system and so on. In this paper, we reviewed the development status, preparation technology, main problems, and quality evaluation from the related literatures of orally disintegrating tablets in recent years, so as to provide references for further research of orally disintegrating tablets of CMM.