Conducting animal experimental researches is essential to promote the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine（TCM）. The address of animal ethics in experimental researches embodies the respect and caring of lives. Protecting the well-being of experimental animals not only reflects the moral cultivation of human beings towards lives

but also ensures more reliable and generalized results. There were several animal ethics-related problems to be solved in the experimental TCM researches

such as the understanding of experimental animal ethics should be strengthened; TCM specifics needs to be addressed; more demanding requirements should be set by domestic academic journals; the construction of ethics review committees needs to be standardized; and the certification of laboratory animal institutions urgently needs to be promoted. Simultaneously

it is suggested to think from the perspective of laboratory animal use such as anesthesia

material extraction and euthanasia and to focus on the characteristics of TCM

so as to establish TCM-specific animal ethics and review rules.