Healthday: YouYou slaughter award

is the victory of Chinese people

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    Earlier in the day, New York 24 at the age of 81, Chinese medicine academy of sciences researcher YouYou slaughter by finding artesunate and boarded lasker award podium. This is the first time in years 65 lasker award awarded Chinese scientists, the award, but not America's most influential medical awards, the more a Nobel Prize of "vane". YouYou slaughter in published feat, said artesunate is found that the traditional Chinese medicine to human a gift. (sept. 25, "the Beijing morning paper")

    Around the carcasses of the American medical YouYou won awards, a debate about the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine's quietly lit again in the network has. No matter the outcome of the debate, have to accept the fact is--traditional Chinese medicine with the obtained from the world's attention.

    Americans of the reason clear, professor of leadership YouYou slaughter team will be an ancient Chinese medicine therapy into the most powerful malaria drugs, make modern technology and traditional TCM doctors diagnose illnesses's legacy, and the combination of one of the most valuable content will be into the 21 st century in the world, particularly developing countries, saved millions of lives. YouYou slaughter after winning the award in an interview, also stressed that "traditional Chinese medicine". She thought, this is traditional Chinese medicine of traditional Chinese medicine to one of the world's honor. She called for further explored, Chinese traditional medicine, carry on, inheritance, improve, inheritance innovation.

    Facing a series of traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is a question that is traditional Chinese medicine, and even required pseudo-science opt out of the state health system, and the voice of the traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and supporters finally found a strong fight back "weapon", you still dare to say we're wasting taxpayer money? See, the Chinese medicine is not had conquered the most stubborn most tell scientific American?

    But, they may ignore the following some facts. YouYou despite medical awards for slaughter, but she is not in the sense of traditional Chinese medicine clinical, only is a laboratory pharmaceutical researchers. The more precise, the pharmaceutical researchers from some traditional Chinese medicine, traditional classical obtained the inspiration from the traditional Chinese medicine, extracting artesunate. But she still is to the modern scientific research methods, through the chemical to purification. Artesunate artemisia annua had extracted from malaria chemical medicine, namely the western medicine, not Chinese traditional medicine. Instead, as Chinese traditional medicine is from artemisia incense, do not contain artesunate; Even with, after decocting also destroyed activity to malaria, invalid. So, although the carcasses YouYou I learned some Chinese medicine knowledge, also as a Chinese medicine academy of sciences researcher, but she is not after all of the field of study of traditional Chinese medicine, her award itself should be and the Chinese medicine have nothing to do.

    Traditional Chinese medicine is indeed a precious experience of human value, although there is a library dross, but so too are essence. Can't because of the traditional Chinese medicine theory and modern medical theory some existing differences, it completely veto a bonzi of traditional Chinese medicine existence value. But, also won't because the slaughter YouYou awards are to make some superstitious and the dregs of the ingredients for rolling. Traditional Chinese medicine on real significance to the world will face more test and the difficulties.

    Slaughter YouYou said, "TCM is greatest treasures to the people of the world, the health of the remains to be continue to explore the potential for our ancestors. We keep many beneficial experience. We find artemisinin, solve the global keen to solve the problem. Similar traditional medicines and many." But, science writer fang had put a different point of view, he said: "of course of traditional Chinese medicine may contain some completely have not been dug out of the chemical medicine, but artesunate discovery process just goes from Chinese medicine classics to records of the find really useful drug artesunate found very difficult. After 40 years, although there are countless scientific research personnel tried to make miracles, from herbs but would never find the second can be internationally recognized as a new drug, also is not strange."

    If we never know how to obtain, then success is very difficult to copy. This is the largest of traditional Chinese medicine's own development present one of confusion. Slaughter YouYou personal success, perhaps also was unable to change the reality. I hope her award and the success, can attract to more world scientists to traditional Chinese medicine's attention and interest, with more international first-class scientific research, dig out the more "artesunate", save more DuoRen life, to benefit human society. At that time, not an incense, traditional Chinese medicine BoBo might find it hard to.

    Wu handsome (doctor)