Abstract:ITCM has brilliant prospects and deserves to be laid stress on because it has shown unique and marked efficacy and has developed distinctive features of traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacy in the treatment of acute diseases and difficult and complicated serious cases. In this paper the applied characteristics of ITCM are summarized and analysed, and its problems of quality such as effectiveness and stability are also investigated. It is wished that the paper will be helpful to scientific and technological workers in their researches on ITCM.