Genuine regional medicinals are synonymous with high-quality Chinese medicinal materials, which refer to the excellent quality and efficiency of medicinal materials.This concept originates from the production and clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine, and has been confirmed by countless clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years.Originated in ancient times, it is a unique comprehensive standard to identify the quality of high-quality Chinese medicinal materials, and it is also a unique comprehensive criterion to control the quality of Chinese medicinal materials in Chinese pharmacy.Generally speaking, genuine regional medicinals refer to the medicinal materials produced in a specific natural condition and ecological environment.The production is more concentrated, with a certain cultivation technology and harvesting and processing methods, high quality and good effect, recognized by TCM clinical.“Dao” is the name of administrative divisions in Tang Dynasty, such as Guannan Dao and Hedong Dao.Genuine originally refers to local specialties, later turns into “genuine, high quality and reliable”.Usually, genuine regional medicinals is usually preceded by a place name to show its genuine area. The famous genuine regional medicinal is Baikal Skullcap Roo,Zhimu/Common Anemarrhena/Anemarrhenae Rhizoma,Chaihu/Bupleurum/Bupleuri Radix,Zaoren/Spiny Date Seed/Ziziphi Spinosae Semen,Jinyinhua/Japanese Honysuckle Flower Bud/Lonicerae Japonicae Flos,Fangfeng/Divaricate Saposhnikovia/Saposhnikoviae Radix,Yuanzhi/Thinleaf Milkwort Willd./Polygalae Radix,Kuandonghua/Common Coltsfoot Flower/Farfarae Flos,Cangzhu/Swordlike Atracylodes Rhizome/Atractylodis Rhizoma,Jinlianhua/Trollflower/Trollius Chinensis,Danshen/Dan - shen Root/Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix et Rhizoma.