近年来，中药壁虎对恶性肿瘤、结核病、骨髓炎、瘘管等疑难杂症治疗方面有确切疗效，引起医药界广泛关注，各种研究成果常见于诸报刊。本文就国内中药壁虎的考证与资源、化学成分、炮制、制剂、药理作用以及临床应用方面的研究进展作了总结性综述，并就中药壁虎的品种确定和炮制方法进行了讨论。

In recent years， Gecko used as traditional Chinese medicine has shown definite effects on many difficult and complicated diseases, such as malignant tumors, osteomyelitis tuberculosis and fistula, which has attracted general attention in medical circle and related research achievements of it are often published in various journals. This paper reviews the recent research on textual criticism, resources, chemical constituents, preparation, pharmacological action and related development of clinic research of Gecko and has a discussion on the determination of Gecko strains and its preparation methods.