Inheritance and innovation is an eternal subject for the development of traditional Chinese medicine 
 
 
The 2014-11-24 03:59 
 

Source: journal of science and technology 
 

Our reporter Luo Chaoshu 

 
    "As a prominent representative of traditional medicine, Chinese medicine is the most complete, most influential and largest population using traditional medicine system. It is rooted in the rich soil of the Chinese culture, to the east, influence the world, is the common wealth of mankind." How to make traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to better serve the society? On November 23, hosted by the vice-chairman of China and the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) "the first science conference, vice chairman of the standing committee of the NPC standing committee Chen on how to scientific understanding and development of traditional Chinese medicine enterprise puts forward his own unique insights. 
 
    What cultural differences lead to different cognition of Chinese and western medicine 
 
    As a medical workers, Chen zhu in medical research for many years, really feel the traditional Chinese medicine is the treasure of the Chinese nation, is also an important part of medical and health undertakings. But as a discipline, in the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese medicine also met with some modern science, western science is not able to fully understand and know the phenomenon. Chen zhu believes that this is due to the differences in eastern and western cultures and ways of thinking, caused the people to the different cognition of Chinese and western medicine. 
 
    Cognitive methods of "we were dominant in the Oriental culture has been rely on experience and intuition, people start from the whole understanding and the treatment including disease and complicated things and problems, such as life, and not to split them into small units to get to know. And the west is mainly along the 'empirical + reasoning way for the development of the cognitive approach." Chen zhu believed that under the two methods of cultural background and cognitive development of medicine is also different. Western medicine in patients would consider it is functional or organic disease, through the check can be accurate to specific pathological changes, thus further microcosmic figure out what is the cause. Consider what is the patient in a card type of traditional Chinese medicine, diet or seven emotions, it is overworked or seasons, and for the overall nursing to patients, restore the body's balance. It is in the observation and exploration, in the different way of thinking, caused the people to the different cognition of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and western medicine, find out the two cognitive methods to help people better understand the relationship between traditional Chinese medicine. 
 
    Two kinds of cognitive intersection provide more choice for modern medicine 
 
    Chen thinks that traditional Chinese medicine is full of ancient wisdom and philosophy thought, in order to provide a new philosophy for the development of modern medicine and application. Chen zhu, said his team through the study of TCM classics, the study, in the process of treatment of leukemia was inspired by this thought, make by the method of differentiation of malignant cells "right", and apply the modern methods of malignant cells can induce differentiation of compound screening, found the arsenic trioxide and retinoic acid synergy targeted therapy will be a "bad" cell transformation as close to normal cells, the effect is better than the simple way to kill the malignant cells, and the use of arsenic trioxide is the idea of "like cures like" in the treatment of traditional medicine with retinoic acid induced cell differentiation mature is a typical of translational medicine. Combination of the two drugs to let the natural course of only a few weeks of most dangerous 85% - 90% of patients in acute leukemia can cure, basically and recurrence in 5 years. Chen zhu said, recent studies have shown that, through this method to treat patients survived for more than 10 years without relapse cases has reached more than 500 cases. 
 
    "In addition, everyone knows the antimalarial wonder drug artemisinin and its derivatives is one of the world health organization recommends an anti-diarrhea medicine is the most effective, and thanks to the discovery of artemisinin was 1600 years ago eastern Taoist scholar ge hong" elbow backup nasty party "in the records the efficacy of artemisinin thermal disease role." Talk about these two examples, Chen very regrets ground say: "the traditional Chinese medicine is a treasure, these ancient wisdom should be respected and applied to the system of modern medicine. Can say, the intersection of two kinds of cognitive in the east and west, as modern medicine provides more options and wider view." 
 
    On the basis of inheriting the essence to achieve innovation and development 
 
    In recent years, the country to organize the implementation of a batch of TCM clinical research base construction project, the construction of national key specialty of traditional Chinese medicine, improve the ability and talent level of clinical diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. "Twelfth five-year" period, the construction of the university of Chinese medicine in our country also strengthened, China academy of traditional Chinese medicine "QiHuang zhongjing" "" "Jane "three major projects, covering the prevention from the basic theory of the core problem to cure ability, innovative research and development of the whole chain, to the Chinese medicine of traditional Chinese medicine industry is also growing. 
 
    "But overall, the system of traditional Chinese medicine medicine, teaching and research the history of infrastructure and personnel debt more, traditional Chinese medicine product quality level and industry innovation ability also need to be further strengthened." Chen thinks, "inheritance and innovation, is the eternal theme of development of Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) need to keep up with The Times, comply with the law, on the basis of inheriting the essence to achieve innovation and development." 
 
    "Tens of thousands of kinds of prescription of traditional Chinese medicine is mostly according to the principle of" fujin made configuration of compound, the compound of synergy can reduce side effects. While enhancing effect of biomedical language to explain how to use the system "fujin made", and reveal their respective roles in a compound mechanism is the key." Chen thinks, in recent years, on the one hand, the succession of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) innovation gradually shows the characteristics of precision medicine, on the other hand, due to the emerging disciplines such as genomics, have appeared in the western medicine attaches great importance to the overall development situation of the theory and system theory, "the overall concept of traditional Chinese medicine, evidence-based medicine, not cure disease such as core idea if you can through the combination with modern western medicine to further interpretation and everbright, is expected to change of medical model and health policies, reform and innovation in the field of pharmaceutical industry and even the whole economy bring far-reaching influence." 
 
    On November 23) (journal of science and technology Beijing