供御药的质量要求

1、对药材质量的要求是上等、纯洁、地道。比如黄连选用上等、粗大、饱满，去掉须根的四川雅安的鸡爪黄连。
The Medicinal Materials should be superior in quality, impurity-free and authentic. For example, Rhizoma coptidis should be chicken feet-shaped ones from Ya’an, Sichuan Province, which must be superior in quality, bulky and plump with fibrous roots being removed.

2、对制药的要求是“一切炮制、碾筛、成做，不得草率，以昭慎重”。同仁堂制药工艺精湛，对炮制要求十分严苛且方法独特，据统计，同仁堂传统炮制加工方法达50多种，较复杂的工序达20多道。
The requirements for medicine preparation stated that "all procedures related to processing, grinding, screening of medicines should be rigorous and earnest, as a sign to demonstrate the seriousness of the whole process".

3、明确了御药各相关方的质量责任。
Clarification of the quality-related responsibilities of all parties involved in the delivery of imperial medicines.

一是同仁堂药商、铺东对供御药的质量负责；
1) The drug dealer and shopkeeper of Tongrentang should be responsible for the quality of imperial medicines;

二是御药房“掌库（库房首领）检查验收，对送交药味验收负责;
2) The warehouse supervisor of the Imperial Pharmacy should be in charge of checking and acceptance of the medicines and be responsible for the medicines delivered;

三是皇帝、太后亲自点验；
3) The Emperor and the Empress Dowager would count and check the medicines themselves;

四是在使用或制作过程中经手的御药房官员17-18人都要签字负责形成“粘单（类似于管理记录）”最后由内务府总管大臣签字；
4) Acting as a form of responsibility sharing, an “allonge” (similar to management records) should be signed by 17 to 18 officials of the Imperial Pharmacy who engaged in medicine administration and preparation, which followed by the final signature of the Chief Minister of Imperial Household Department;

五是供药有差错交内务府主管刑事狱案的慎行司法办。
5) Any errors arising from the delivery of medicines should be dealt with by the Imperial Discipline Department, a division coping with criminal cases under the Imperial Household Department.