Innovating Chinese herbal medicine: From traditional health practice to scientific drug discovery

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volumn 8, Issue JUN, 2017, Pages

  Gu, Shuo ^a,b   Pei, Jianfeng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese herbal medicine; Drug discovery; Medical narrative; Methodological reductionism; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; CHINESE DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; HERBAL MEDICINE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HOLISM; HUMAN; MEDIEVAL MEDICINE; METHODOLOGICAL REDUCTIONISM; METHODOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 85020925078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16639812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2017.00381     Document Type: Article

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