And even if is not now possible to analyze completely the content and methodology of traditional Chinese medical theory, many of the medicinal ingredients in its prescriptions may work in different ways to bring a patient to health, or perhaps even work synergistically to treat a disease against which they would do little or nothing individually.
而使用多種藥材的中藥理論，雖然目前尚無法確實分析其成份、作用方式，但是卻可能在總合眾多藥材中、不同成份的分工合作下，甚或不同的藥物互相影響下達到治病的效果。