Consistency of efficacy-equivalent: Key essential point of quality control for Chinese materia medica / 中草药

The high quality and stability of Chinese materia medica (CMM) are the key factors to ensure clinical curative effect, and the ultimate goal of quality control (QC) for CMM is to ensure clinical efficacy. It is of significance how to establish a method for QC which could be related to clinical efficacy. According to the current situation and major problems of the QC for CMM, we first propose the efficacy-equivalent (EE) of CMM, and the research approach about EE has been elucidated, hoping to provide the reference for the establishment of the method of QC for CMM.