Traditional Medicine, Drug and Clinical Developments
Da-Yong Lu,Ting-Ren Lu.
It is recognized that natural plants and their phytochemicals often show unexpected therapeutic responses, relatively lower toxicities in disease managements and longer therapeutic outcomes in chronic diseases. Many medicinal practices based on tradition in east are not familiar with doctors educated with west society. Many traditional treatments are lack of systematic evaluation and education. Long history of natural plants utility for managing numerous chronic diseases was still popular, especially in China and India. Attentions should be made to translate and boost drug discovery and development from traditional medicine (TM). Seeking wisdom from TM is a modern therapeutic challenge to different diseases that are shortage of curability and broad-ranges by modern medicine (MM) globally. Methods and clinical routine for TM are introduced.
To speed up TM investigations in broad-areas, introducing herbal applications and drug development help us to translate medical insights into new pharmaceutical achievements—including theory, practice and updating of new experimental models (animal or disciplinary), plant chemical entity (extracting, structural and evaluation), pharmacological mechanisms (pathophysiology and drug responses) and clinical applications (diagnosis, convention, quintessence and prescriptions) that is still popular in Asians. T he therapeutic convention between east and west is different in many ways (diagnosis and treatment logical). However, they are gradually merged under the circumstances of modern era. With the assistance of modern medical educations and artificial intelligence, these progress and merge of therapeutics will be continued. Knowledge progress from ancient wisdoms can provide boundless insights and strategies in managing different clinical diseases and drug discovery worldwide.
