The People's Daily editorial, \"the Nobel effect\" can promote TCM walk far

Time: 2015-12-08

Source: People's Daily

Author: jun-ping wang

With the help of a Nobel Prize was, if we can re-examine orientation of traditional Chinese medicine, break the bondage of the development of the disease, speed up incentive mechanism, to the ancient traditional Chinese medicine in the modern scientific system develop, \"Nobel effect\" will play a greater effectiveness

A researcher at the Chinese academy of traditional Chinese medicine for life, a 85 - year - old tu opens the Nobel Prize. (Beijing time) on the evening of December 7th, the Swedish karolinska institute the Nobel hall, tu in Chinese, entitled \"the artemisinin - a gift to the world of traditional Chinese medicine's speech. 10, she will also attend the awards ceremony, Chinese mainland scientists Nobel zero breakthrough.

Tu get the Nobel Prize, the question has always been \"unscientific\" in traditional Chinese medicine, finally exhale eyebrow, win honor for our country, more let the world to realize this great treasure house of Chinese medicine, and is considered by the industry is the parent of QiHuang carry forward the best time. For the treasure house of Chinese medicine, the discovery of artemisinin, but is \"xiao-he expenses furore\", it is believed that Chinese traditional medicine gift to the world, will be more and more.

But some people worry that the \"Nobel effect\" co., LTD. If fundamental obstacle restricting the development of traditional Chinese medicine cannot break, artemisinin won Nobel Prize this event, but is playing a needle stimulants, at that time the scenery infinite, but easy to flood tide, traditional Chinese medicine \"bound hand and foot\" the development of the situation is still difficult to reverse.

Worry is not redundant.

In 2015 the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine winner at a news conference, tu said: \"once the artemisinin resistance, you need to spend ten years research of new drugs.\" Scientists fear is rational. Artemisinin though derived from traditional Chinese medicine, it is a regular western medicine. In the human in the struggle against malaria, whether the original \"antimalarial drug chloroquine,\" is now \"Chinese medicine\" god artemisinin, clinical applications are prone to resistance. This is the result of \"against medicine\", is the common fault of the medicine cannot be solved. Drug-resistant bacteria, super virus was born, and humans will itself in a situation of no medicine can cure.

Tuberculosis, for example, once disappear, in recent years is making a comeback. Traditional Chinese medicine with west medicine limitations highlight, the unique role of conspicuous. Follow the nature of the tao to one of the thought of \"nature and humanity\", Chinese traditional medicine resistance, seldom appears showing peace intervention, the system of traditional Chinese medicine treatment mode of great strength. No wonder tu the old man repeatedly stressed: \"artemisinin is the true gift of an ancient Chinese medicine.\" If you can't continue to dig and use, waste gift is small, it is more important, is not the benefit of the world.

Tu the old fear of artesunate prospect, is people to worries about the future of Chinese medicine. There is no denying the fact that in recent years, Chinese medicine has made rapid progress in the development of domestic, it opened the \"key\" of Chinese traditional culture, is to benefit more people. However, traditional Chinese medicine be reviewed, validated status for a long time and have no fundamental change. From evaluation system of examination and approval of the west, often force \"unscientific\" to \"cut\" of traditional Chinese medicine, injustice to put on the shoe of western medicine. Westernization of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine west tube, lack of flexibility and the mechanism of local features, so much so that some dubbed, \"kill the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine need not knife, mandatory westernization can let the fighting skill and waste\". Having sharp, is alert: as a kind of unique medical resources, great potential for the economic resources, a has the original advantage of science and technology resources, excellent cultural resources, if we don't pay attention to their own, does not pay attention to innovation, and does not pay attention to carry forward the inheritance, \"a treasure to dig out\", so in the future, is similar to the artemisinin drugs, will be the product of \"combine traditional Chinese and western medicine\", also can become a \"hometown\" of traditional Chinese medicine, China - if so, how will we face the ancestors?

Lasker award in 2011, in 2015 won the Nobel Prize, TCM is not \"in buxuriant knowledge\" already, the Chinese medicine to make people more confident in the future. With the help of a Nobel Prize was, if we can re-examine orientation of traditional Chinese medicine, break the bondage of the development of the disease, speed up incentive mechanism, to the ancient traditional Chinese medicine in the modern scientific system, so the Nobel is no longer just a gust of wind blow to China, world \"Nobel effect\" will play a greater effectiveness. So, to have more \"artemisinin\" towards the world, let more \"tu\" benefit the people.