The use of herbal drugs is consider one of the most important way of preventing and treating diseases in the context of the ancient system of Traditional Chinese medicine. Due to the thousands years long and successful traditional use, Chinese herbal drugs are receiving global popularity and nowadays they are more and more prevalent on the European market. In this thesis theoretical investigation of six herbal drugs obtained from the stems and barks of Chinese medicinal plants has been performed. Studied TCM-herbal drugs have been selected on the basis of existence of the modern monographs for it's quality control in the European Pharmacopoeia. The thesis includes a review of plant origins, their traditional use, phytochemical constituents and nonclinical and clinical evidence of the efficacy and safety as well as Croatian translation of the individual pharmacopoeial monographs. All collected, expertly processed and compiled data are useful because they allow pharmacists to gain new knowledge and improve their competence in the field of phytopharmacy.