Active Ingredient Research on Chinese Materia Medica and Development of New Drugs of Chinese Materia Medica / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

The study on the active ingredients of single Chinese crude drugs has the various values,and it is an indispensable process of the modernization of Chinese materia medica.Ephedrine extraction opened a prelude of the active ingredients commonly used Chinese materia medica in China,and the found of indirubin and arsenic trioxide for the treatment of leukemia and artemisinin for the treatment of malaria were the proud achievements.Although the research of active ingredients on Chinese materia medica has brought some success in the development of new drugs,the reality can not be too optimistic.It needs get rid of a purely analytic perspective,needs to carry out the activity screen sufficiently,needs to adhere to the main body of complex prescription in the development of new drugs of Chinese materia medica,and needs to grasp the "precise" and "ambiguous" organically.