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What has traditional Chinese medicine delivered for modern medicine?
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The field of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) represents a vast and largely untapped resource for modern medicine. Exemplified by the success of the antimalarial artemisinin, the recent years have seen a rapid increase in the understanding and application of TCM-derived herbs and formulations for evidence-based therapy. In this review, we summarise and discuss the developmental history, clinical background and molecular basis of an action for several representative TCM-derived medicines, including artemisinin, arsenic trioxide, berberine and Salvia miltiorrhiza or Danshen. Through this, we highlight important examples of how TCM-derived medicines have already contributed to modern medicine, and discuss potential avenues for further research.
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- Wang, J., Wong, Y.-K., & Liao, F.
- Venue
- Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2018
- Volume
- 20
- Pages
- e4-e4
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- 1462-3994 (ISSN-L)
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- W2802241105
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- 328
- References
- 133
- FWCI
- 24.64
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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