Fingerprinting techniques play a increasingly important role in the quality control standards of traditional Chinese medicines (TCM), research and establish the fingerprint about spectral-efficiency could improve the quality control of TCM. The necessity of the fingerprint pharmacodynamics research and the analysis and evaluation of the research methods in the existing literature at home and abroad were reviewed in this article, Combined with the author's laboratory research, we proposed the research methods of fingerprint pharmacodynamics of TCM and provided the basis for effectively promoting the the establishment and development of fingerprint pharmacodynamics of Chinese medicine compound preparations.