Discussion about research ideas of Chinese materia medica based on Chinese materia medica components and "composition structure" theory / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Chinese materia medica (CMM) is the product of long-term practice of clinical traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and it has the characteristics of overall effect of the multi-component and multilink multiple targets. Because of the complexity of CMM, it has not yet formed systematic and the scientific method for the TCM research, which seriously restricts the development of modernization of CMM. Under the guidance of TCM theory, we explore the study on the new mode of CMM whose components are divided into the functional units by the CMM research foundation of material basis, pharmacological mechanism, the structure optimization, and new idea on the CMM quality control based on composition structure theory and in vivo pharmacokinetic as well.