People's analysis: the development of the Nobel Prize is not the traditional Chinese medicine "spike"

Time: 2015-10-08

Source: People's Daily

Author: jun-ping wang

"Artemisinin is traditional Chinese medicine the gift to the people of the world." Tu, a researcher at the Chinese academy of traditional Chinese medicine for this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, became the National Day long vacation in the exciting news. But joy, also appeared a variety of different voices, debate is one of the most Nobel should to record a merit of traditional Chinese medicine.

Who get the Nobel Prize, "the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine the crowned" behind, reflects the has a long history of Chinese and western medicine. Over the past century, western medicine east, occupy the mainstream position of domestic medicine, and at the same time the marginalization of traditional Chinese medicine. Nobel Prize in reward, naturally reluctant to against the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine to the award-winning achievements labeled as traditional Chinese medicine, and to support worthy people would think of traditional Chinese medicine.

Tear of the traditional Chinese and western medicine to this degree, is a kind of satire. Actually, might as well listen to international evaluation: artemisinin, the Chinese herbal medicine combined with western medicine technology and standards of anti-malarial drugs has achieved remarkable results, save millions of people around the world, get global recognition. The discovery of artemisinin, derived from traditional Chinese medicine. Eastern jin ge hong's "elbow backup nasty party", "a party ACTS a hold, and with two litres of water stains, wring juice, best of clothing." The 17 words inspired tu, eventually with low boiling point ether making artemisinin. But in the end, the results do not belong to the nature of traditional Chinese medicine, but completely in the sense of western medicine.

That is to say, the results of artemisinin is the product of western and Chinese medicine cooperate, single western medicine or Chinese medicine, very difficult to achieve such a world class results. Who is credited with having the Nobel, just pointless debate. Tu, scientists Nobel zero breakthrough not only in mainland China, but also the recognition of contribution to China's world class. As a Chinese, should celebrate happily, why struggle with this?

Tu's award reminds us that Chinese medicine and western medicine, not rivals, need is to jointly contributing to the Chinese unique protecting human health, provides Chinese solution to reform the world difficult problem. Of course, Chinese solution depends on traditional Chinese medicine. As tu puts it, "the traditional Chinese medicine is a treasure, but it's not used to use." Is unparalleled in the world medical treasures of traditional Chinese medicine, at present only seeing the tip of the iceberg. Open the mysterious box, the development of traditional Chinese medicine, must fully absorb and make use of modern science, the achievements of modern medicine. If guard ancestor's baby, stuck in the past, Chinese traditional medicine can only be "a basket of grass", unable to become "a piece of treasure". Chinese medicine need to open the closed walls, open embrace of modern science and technology changes with each passing day, let the old Chinese medicine made new again.

Is only one letter short ACTS and artemisinin though, but it represents a different concept of medicine. Artemisinin is traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), representing the research train of thought of traditional Chinese medicine; Artemisinin is western medicine, suggests the research method of TCM. The mining of treasure of traditional Chinese medicine of traditional Chinese medicine, what kind of action can be used, the purpose is to find the key opening it.

Some worry that tu winning is easy to make lost of traditional Chinese medicine development. It has even been extremely, Nobel Prize is not arm, instead of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) could be a fatal blow. These words although some alarmist, but it is not unreasonable. From the western medicine of traditional Chinese medicine, western medicine, the law of development of both is different. If tu extract artemisinin mode, mistaken for the development of Chinese medicine way, abandon traditional Chinese medicine effective and reasonable system of many other methods and ignore the way of thinking, so the development of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is not blessed, tu, scientists also don't want to see the results.

Today, under the influence of a strong position in the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine has been in a position of being examined, western medicine scientific become the only standard. In fact, both western medicine and TCM, the understanding of medical law is far from perfect, you like a 3 d object in two-dimensional space to understand each other, nature is difficult to complete and correct conclusions. In this case, the partial correction this foot of traditional Chinese medicine with western medicine standard, often easy to cut. Because of this, from the lasker award to this year's Nobel Prize in 2011, tu have been hoping to develop a new incentive mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine. Development of traditional Chinese medicine does not need to "western" of chicken blood, but more in need of open inclusive of Chinese and western to breakthrough.

Tu with one individual plant grass changed the world, let the Chinese artemisia towards the world. Inheritance is not old, constant innovation, experience is long cover is new to eternal vitality of traditional Chinese medicine.