For example, as Hsieh Ming-tsun, current Chairman of the Graduate Department of Chinese Pharmacology, notes, one of the unique characteristics of Chinese medicine is that a prescription includes not a single medicine but a combination of many ingredients.
東京醫科大學畢業，現任中藥研究所所長的謝明村博士表示：「中藥的奧妙就在於它往往少『單方』多『複方』，『複方』的藥效，是由多種藥材經過煎煮、烘焙等不同的化學作用融合而成的。