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The blood concentrations of the pharmacodynamic substances of traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) are usually very low.How can they exert pharmacological actions? In which forms (original form, metabolite or the both) do they exert the actions? To answer these questions, we proposed a new concept of "Effective Forms" of pharmacodynamic substances of TCMs and a hypothesis of additive effect of multiple constituents of TCMs.