Objective To study the relation of herbal Han-Re cooperation effect to the adjuvant arthritis (AA) rats and its regulative action on the T cell subgroup.

This article illustrates clinical prescriptions as the main stream to probe into the compatibility of cold and heat drugs in prescriptions and discusses the complex mechanisms of cold and heat in the viscera.

In order to study the compatibility of Chinese herbal drugs,a method was proposed by investigating chemical reactions with combination of chemical constituents or major groups of chemical compounds of Chinese herbal drugs.

Exploration on effect and significance of drug metabolic enzyme for studying on compatibility of Chinese herbs;

The paper further reasons the pathophysiologic mechanisms of both the cold syndrome and the heat syndrome, proposes the methods and techniques in the research of the combination of the cold and the heat drugs, and is expected to exert a positive influence in this research field.