Experts from multinational universities interpret the future of Chinese medicine as a "brainstorming session" for development

China news network, 09 September 2017

      Hangzhou, September 9 (xie pan) - where is the future of Chinese medicine? By Oxford and Cambridge on September 9, but the alumni association hosted the first "west lake among peak BBS" held in zhejiang university, Oxford University, Cambridge university, zhejiang university and professor of China university of science and technology and other colleges and universities around the "biomedical future" extremely futuristic frontier topic in communication, and in the future development of TCM to explore "brain storm".

      As an important part of Chinese traditional culture, traditional Chinese medicine has always been a controversial topic in academic circles. After Chinese scientist tu youyou won the Nobel Prize for artemisinin, the Chinese government has driven into the fast lane in support of traditional Chinese medicine. In 2016, the state council issued the outline of the strategic planning for the development of traditional Chinese medicine (2016-2030), which will promote the development of traditional Chinese medicine as a national strategy. In July, the Chinese medicine law of the People's Republic of China took effect, and the development of Chinese medicine ushered in a new spring.

Fan tai ping, director of angiogenesis and natural medicine laboratory at Cambridge university, has been working on the research and promotion of traditional Chinese medicine.

      For the effect of traditional Chinese medicine, is certainly a flat fan, and discusses the ginseng, salvia miltiorrhiza, notoginseng, Chinese angelica, such as traditional Chinese medicine effect on angiogenesis, ginseng saponin has two-way regulating angiogenesis, let everyone to have basic cognitive principle and effect of Chinese medicine.

      "Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history in the west." Fan ping mentioned, as early as in the 16th century, China's great medical experts, the author of the compendium of materia medica, li shizhen before birth, England's king Henry viii was attaches great importance to and love of herbal medicine research and the British even have "herbal medicine" as an occupation, so traditional Chinese medicine in the west there is a cognitive basis.

      Dong xuebing, a professor at zhejiang university, has interpreted the background of the development of TCM internationalization from the perspective of "One Belt And One Road" vision, "I participated in the national" One Belt And One Road "international department. In the field of TCM, with particular emphasis on the characteristics of medicine and traditional medicine of countries along the mining development and cooperation, we are prepared to in the "area" of countries along the maritime silk road and the key countries, build a traditional medicines germplasm repository and standardization system; We will promote the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine, and promote the application of traditional medical technologies such as the health care treatment of traditional Chinese medicine.

      "Chinese medicine is becoming more receptive in the west." Dr. Yan jing of the university of Cambridge has her own views on the development of traditional Chinese medicine, she said. In the west, more and more students want to learn traditional Chinese medicine, and acupuncture is increasingly accepted in the west. In Australia, for example, in 2009, 10% of patients received acupuncture treatment in traditional Chinese medicine.

      As in the UK include within the scope of the European Union to promote traditional Chinese medicine culture positive promoter, fan said, at present, 66 items of proprietary Chinese medicine for the European pharmacopoeia, we efforts, is to get closer to the mainstream of traditional Chinese medicine science, into the mainstream scientific stage.

      In this regard, yan jing also commercialized and industrialized from the perspective of medicine, emphasized the necessity of promoting the standardization of traditional Chinese medicine, and promoted the development of traditional Chinese medicine.