专利是中药保护的有力武器，也是提升企业核心竞争力、开拓国际市场的最有效、最直接的途径。从一名中药专利申请审查员的角度出发，探寻目前在中药专利保护中存在的一些问题，并针对具体问题提出解决方法及相关建议。

Patent is not only a powerful protection of Chinese materia medica (CMM) but also the most direct way of promoting enterprise’s core competitive ability and exploring international market effectively. On the viewpoint of a CMM patent inspector, some problems in CMM patent protection are to be explained, and the solution methods and related suggestions be put forward in this paper.