The important instruments and equipment for chemical analysis of traditional Chinese medicine are: nuclear magnetic resonance instrument, high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer, gas chromatography mass spectrometer, extreme liquid chromatography, infrared spectrometer, ultraviolet spectrometer, etc.

Important equipment for biological activity analysis are: Flow cytometry, real-time quantitative gene detector, laser scanning conjugate focal fluorescing microscope, electric inverted fluorescent microscope, atomic force microscope, etc.