Traditional Chinese medicine properties and traditional Chinese medicine property-matteromics.
- Author:
Pei-xun LIU
1
;
Wei LONG
Author Information
1. Institute of Radiation Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin 300192, China. longway_long@yahoo.com.cn
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Drugs, Chinese Herbal;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional;
methods
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2008;33(14):1769-1771
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) properties, the essence of TCM theories, is the treasure for the Chinese nation, even for the world. It's an emergency to illustrate this theory in modernizing meaning so as to share it, one of the achievements in the Chinese civilization, for all the people in this world. TCM property-matteromics, the new concept in this article, is reported at the first time. Defined as the science of studying composition of the basic materials expressing TCM properties, correlation and interact between these materials, TCM property-matteromics was presented here in expounding the basic concept, the object, content and method of study, in order to apply a new thinking and new methodology for the TCM modernization by elucidating the essence of the theory of the TCM property.
