Internationalization of Chinese medicine key: integration of modern science and technology

Time: 2015-10-23

Source: economic information daily

The author: wang yu

"The essence of the development of TCM must be rooted in traditional Chinese medicine, it is necessary to merge with modern science and technology, so as to move towards the world."

"If we can put more modern technology combined with the characteristic of traditional Chinese medicine, I believe that we can gradually come out of a way to be accepted by the world."

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In a 2015 Shanghai international conference of traditional Chinese medicine and natural medicine, government officials from dozens of countries and regions of the world, experts and scholars, representatives of enterprises, etc. About 400 people, technical innovation and industrial development in the field of TCM and the path of the modernization and internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine has carried on the heated discussion.

The modern science and technology with the integration of traditional Chinese medicine

With the development of modern science with each passing day, is also experiencing unprecedented changes, the development of Chinese medicine is faced with many new problems and new situations. Have the personage inside course of study thinks, the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine is at a crossroads, determines the traditional Chinese medicine is to enter a dietary supplement, or enter a prescription or over-the-counter drugs.

"The essence of the development of TCM must be rooted in traditional Chinese medicine, it is necessary to merge with modern science and technology, so as to move towards the world." Sammi deputy director of the China center for biotechnology development, said the ministry of science and technology, "much starker choices-and graver consequences-in" innovation of science and technology plans are being made to highlight the top design, in order to solve the bottleneck problem of traditional Chinese medicine.

"The internationalization of TCM is a trend." Member of Chinese academy of sciences, Shanghai university of traditional Chinese medicine the original principal Chen kx thinks, but is the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine composition is more complex, how to regulate its quality, to ensure its effectiveness, and prevent the side effects, these aspects to have the new method. "If we can put more modern technology combined with the characteristic of traditional Chinese medicine, I believe that we can gradually come out of a way to be accepted by the world."

The Chinese academy of engineering, central south university professor zhou hh published titled "pharmacogenomics and its application in the field of traditional Chinese medicine of the conference report. He said, "we focus on in Chinese herbal medicine combined with chemical drugs, must reduce medicine drug interactions, reduce the adverse reaction, because of traditional Chinese medicine is very complicated."

"We have to be treated with a scientific Chinese medicine, we must admit that there may be some of traditional Chinese medicine toxicity, but we can't take it the toxicity of demonization." Zhou hh said, "in fact the western medicine also has toxicity, but we are not in use."

Drug standards coordination is the core problem

The representative thinks, internationalization of Chinese medicine, quality control is a foundation, there is no good quality, there is no effect, also have no security. In the development of quality standards, requires a drug standard can be used around the world.

"Quality control should have innovation." Long-term work in the pharmaceutical standards of the Chinese national pharmacopoeia committee chief scientist righteous think money, "now all the quality control, we around is a chemical markers that target to do. Really a medicine to control the quality, should be the clinical effectiveness of a full representation."

Righteous think money, at present, to do Chinese traditional medicine research of scientific workers, chemical markers of various methods can also study, but dominated by biomarkers of quality control to enter the main area of study, "next big kung fu, is the biological standard".

In righteous money eyes, a complete quality control of traditional Chinese medicine product, should be a chemical markers and a combining the biomarkers of quality standards.

Righteous think money, the overall control to innovation, "the current quality standards, we do basically is to control the heavy product mode. But before this medicine made too many uncertain factors. The problem of priority, is how to use the unstable raw material (Chinese medicine) to produce stable proprietary Chinese medicine, this also is a critical problem."

Money righteous suggest introducing Internet + technology. He said, the Internet technology and quality control to blend together, from raw material to process, from clinical to circulation, every point of the fragmentation get through, so the quality control of TCM products should be good in the world.

Righteous think money, there are two major pieces, the core issue of internationalization of Chinese medicine is first and foremost problem of theory of TCM, and the evaluation standard of the drug. "Pharmaceutical standards coordination is the core of the current international coordination problems."

Ensure that traditional Chinese medicine does not lose in the source

In recent years, due to the strong state support, Chinese medicine industry for many years has been a steady growth, achievement is impressive.

In Shanghai, for example, in 2014 Shanghai Chinese medicine manufacturing industry output value 9.644 billion yuan, produced KaiBao, and yellow, LeiYun, green valley momentum of development well, the most traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) the core competitiveness of leading enterprises and phlegm heat injection, of musk pills, salvia miltiorrhiza polyphenols acid salt, and other products.

The personage inside course of study thinks, Chinese traditional medicine the future market potential is very large, but also clearly recognize that the healthy development of Chinese medicine industry is severely limited by resource problems.

Representatives from the pharmaceutical industry, ciic pharmaceutical group chairman of the board Lai Zhi fill at the meeting, for example, there is a medicinal material producers, 57 drugs are found in different area, only three qualified pharmaceuticals.

"Qualified product of traditional Chinese medicines stable, dependent on a steady supply of Chinese medicinal materials." Lai Zhi fill said, but due to the geographical distribution of traditional Chinese medicines come from natural, planting technology, storage transportation, easy to cause the great differences of inner quality.

He suggested that the country at the macro policy level to give guidance, give full play to the enterprise is not only the market main body, and innovation main body role. Encourage support enterprises to protect traditional Chinese medicine resources, and to the policies and measures for the sustainable development of the resources of Chinese medicine substantial work, ensure that traditional Chinese medicine does not lose in the source.

Innovation is the key to become bigger and stronger Chinese medicine industry. Lai Zhi fill in, for example, TCM products need decoction, young people find it hard to accept, if no innovation, no development, will be marginalized.

According to introducing, the exploration and development of pharmaceutical industry over the years insist on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), after many years of technical research, developed application and is very convenient to carry products, solve the problems of the uneven quality of herbal medicine decoction, increase the utilization rate of the component, to adapt to the fast pace of modern life demand.