106 documents from 1977 to 2012 about authenticity identification and quality evaluation of pilose antler and its series traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) were combed by consulting the network literature and manual searching.The analysis results showed that:with the rapid development of TCM market and expansion of health care,the sources of pilose antler and its series TCM were more complicated.The identification method developed from character identification,microscopic identification and physicochemical i...