Referencing and inosculating--discussion on modern research strategy for ethnomedicines.
10.19540/j.cnki.cjcmm.2017.0053
- Author:
Zhi-Yong LI
1
;
Xing-Yun CHAI
2
;
Tao YUAN
3
;
Guang-Zhi DING
4
;
Hai-Ying TONG
2
Author Information
1. China Minority Traditional Medical Center of Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China.
2. Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.
3. Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China.
4. Editorial Department of Chinese Journal of traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
ethnomedicine;
referencing and inosculating;
research strategy
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2017;42(7):1213-1219
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
This article reviewed the current situation of ethnomedicines in China, and propos that the important research on ethnomedicine is to focus on the theoretical and empirical characteristics of ethnomedicine and the special features in the processes of collecting,processing and clinical application of ethnomedicine, which will be benefit to find the research principles and methods with the characteristics of ethnomedicine. These principles include making clear of the effective substances and mechanisms, and theoretical and empirical characteristics of ethnomedicine. The three methods in the new drug discovery technology system for ethnomedicine are to solve the difference in varieties of traditional medical systems depending on finding the similarities of them, to find the conjunction in varieties of traditional medical systems through the key-herbs, and to find medicinal sources in varieties of traditional medical systems according to pharmaphylogeny.
