Research Progress on Quality Formation Mechanism and Regulation of Chinese Herbal Materials

Ensuring that the quality, safety, effectiveness, stability and controllability of Chinese herbal medicines is the primary premise for the healthy development of the Chinese herbal medicine industry.In recent years, the demand for Chinese herbal medicines has been increasing day by day.Since the quality of Chinese herbal medicines is affected by the ecological environment（exogenous factors） and genetic background（interal factors）,it was of great practical significance to explore the formation mechanism of Chinese herbal medicines quality to promote the quality of Chinese herbal medicines in a stable and controllable way.The study combed through the recent literature on the quality formation of Chinese herbal medicines and environmental regulation, elaborated on the causes of the ‘genuineness’ of Chinese herbal medicines, the formation mechanism of Chinese herbal medicines quality and the progress of environmental regulation, and preliminarily discusses the of the hypotheses related on the quality formation of Chinese herbal medicines, thereby interpreting the scientific connotation of the formation of the quality of authentic Chinese herbal medicines, with a view to providing the key technology of standardised and ecological cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines and the development of the quality control mechanism of Chinese herbal medicines.This is to explain the scientific meaning of the quality formation of genuineness herbs, so as to provide theoretical reference for the improvement of the key technology of standardised and ecological cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines.