法定药品名称是指经国务院卫生行政部门(国家标准)或省级卫生行政部门(地方标准)审批的名称,也即通用名称(而不是商品名)。西药命名原则规定,药品名称应科学、明确、简短,避免采用可能给患者以暗示的有关药理学、治疗学或病理学的药品名称。为加强这方面的标准化工作,对中药成方及单味制剂的 The name of a statutory drug refers to the name approved by the State Council’s health administrative department (national standard) or provincial health administrative department (local standard), that is, the generic name (not the name of the product). The principle of western medicine nomenclature states that the name of the drug should be scientific, clear, and brief, and avoid the use of drug names that may imply to the patient the implied pharmacology, therapeutics, or pathology. In order to strengthen the standardization work in this area,