In vitro experiments found that the strong killing effect of fenugreek on pangolin coronavirus xCoV is undoubtedly exciting news. I wrote an article the day before yesterday to introduce the drug, and emphasized traditional Chinese medicine. Books are still a treasure trove of inspiration for future drug developers. There is a comment below that this is not Chinese medicine at all, and Chinese medicine will be destroyed by these people sooner or later. This has prompted a heated discussion. I would like to express my own point of view.
1. Extracting a single ingredient from plants is not unique to traditional Chinese medicine. As I have said before, Western medicine aspirin is also extracted from willow bark. Ancient Egypt also used willow to relieve pain. The records are similar to those in Li Shizhen’s Compendium of Materia Medica.
2. The great contribution of traditional Chinese medicine books is to verify and record the pharmacological effects of all things in the world, and based on the traditional philosophical theory that the five elements are mutually restrained, many medicinal materials that can cure diseases are composed of different medicinal materials. There is no doubt that Yunnan Baiyao is very effective.
3. Many proprietary Chinese medicines are traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions wrapped with modern technology, which is a development of the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine. Strictly speaking, it is a modern medicine that is partial to traditional medicine. The ingredients have been separated from the theory of the five elements of traditional medicine, and belong to the modern medicine under the guidance of traditional medical classics, which can be classified as Chinese modern medicine. Artemisinin also falls into this category.
4. In fact, there are many drugs in modern Chinese medicine. For example, Qianjinteng Tablet was not born to treat the new crown. This drug was used to treat leukopenia caused by chemotherapy. It is an old drug. , There are many more medicines like this. In the future, under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine books, relevant research on these previous drugs may be carried out, and more pharmacological effects may be found.
5. Taking inspiration from the classics of traditional Chinese medicine to guide the research and development of modern medicine does not count as destroying traditional Chinese medicine. Of course it does not. Traditional Chinese medicine is a fertile soil, and it is allowed to grow various kinds of medicines on it. Flowers and herbs, traditional Chinese medicine are constantly innovating, and the development of traditional Chinese medicine by other methods is also constantly being strengthened. The common development is a contribution to the motherland’s medicine.
