所谓辅料,是指炮制药物时的辅助原料。从历史唯物主义观点来看,辅料是从药物中派生出来的,辅料在炮制中的应用,最早见于《五十二病方》,其中以酒为常用辅料,至梁·陶弘景始提出了“药家多须以行其势”的酒制理论;汉代张仲景在药物的炮制方面,所用辅料不多,在理论上亦无所及,但他对于药物的配方颇有精究,后世称他的著作为“方书之祖”.从中可以窥见在药物的配方中有极其丰富的制药理论,如甘草泻心汤、黄芩加半夏 The so-called auxiliary materials refer to the auxiliary materials used when concocting drugs. From the perspective of historical materialism, excipients are derived from drugs, and the use of excipients in concocting was first seen in the “Fifty-two Diseases”, in which wine was used as a common auxiliary material, and Liang Tao’s Hong Jing proposed the “medicine”. The concept of wine in the home must be based on the trend; in the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing used only a small amount of excipients in the processing of drugs, and he had nothing in theory. However, he had a lot of research on the formulation of drugs, and his works were called afterwards. As the “ancestor of Fangshu”, we can see that there are extremely rich pharmaceutical theories in the formulation of drugs, such as Gancao Xiexin Decoction, and Huangqin plus Pinellia.