A great honor and a huge challenge for China: You-you TU getting the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Public excitement over the award of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to the Chinese medical scientist You-you TU for the discovery of a herbal anti-malarial, may mislead the Chinese people into believing that traditional Chinese herbal medi-cine can be used to cure all disease without...

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Published inJournal of Zhejiang University. B. Science Vol. 17; no. 5; pp. 405 - 408
Main Authors Yuan, Da, Yang, Xue, Guo, Jun-chao
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hangzhou Zhejiang University Press 01.05.2016
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Antimalarials - therapeutic use
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
China
Correspondence
Correspondences
Drugs, Chinese Herbal - therapeutic use
Humans
Malaria - drug therapy
Medicine, Chinese Traditional - adverse effects
Nobel Prize
Plant Preparations - therapeutic use
中医药
不良 反应
青蒿素
诺贝尔生理学或医学奖
Adverse effects
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Artemisinin
Herbal traditional Chinese medicine
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Summary:Public excitement over the award of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to the Chinese medical scientist You-you TU for the discovery of a herbal anti-malarial, may mislead the Chinese people into believing that traditional Chinese herbal medi-cine can be used to cure all disease without any ad-verse effects. The aim of this paper is to explain the advantages and disadvantages of herbal traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) objectively.
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ISSN:1673-1581
1862-1783
DOI:10.1631/jzus.B1600094