中医药作为人类历史上历史最为悠久、使用人数最多、理论体系最完整、药物品种最丰富的传统医学，为人类的发展与进步起到了巨大的作用。将从复方中药研究的现状与前景、大中药概念与中药的多样性、中医药个性化诊疗与中药质量标准化、防重于治与中药养生科学、影响中药疗效的几个关键因素和让中医药走入绅士层面6个方面进行讨论与思考，以期与志同道合者共同为推进中医药的发展贡献微薄之力。

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as the oldest and the most complete theoretical system with the largest number of users and most abundant varieties of medicinal materials in human history, has been playing a huge role in human development and progress. Based on the author's decades of experience in herbal medicine research, the following aspects including current situation and prospects of research on compound Chinese materia medica (CMM), concept of generalized CMM and diversity, personalized diagno-treatment of TCM, and quality standardization of CMM, prevention-prior to treatment and health-maintaining sciences, key factors affecting the efficacy of CMM, and to bring CMM to gentleman level are discussed. It is expected to promote the development and modernization of TCM.