The role of pharmacological research of traditional Chinese medicine in the process of inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine

The role of pharmacological research of traditional Chinese medicine in the process of inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine is as follows:

It refers to relying on modern science and technology, absorbing and utilizing the achievements of modern science and technology, developing traditional Chinese medicine, and finding suitable methods to organically combine traditional Chinese medicine with western medicine.

Modernization of traditional Chinese medicine includes the following meanings:

1. Maintain the characteristics, characteristics and advantages of TCM theory and clinical application, embody the idea of combining inheritance, transplantation and innovation, and realize the transcendence of tradition;

2. The expression of modern language and science has the characteristics of the times;

3. Have modern scientific character, form an open theoretical system and clinical diagnosis and treatment system of traditional Chinese medicine, realize multi-disciplinary compatibility, infiltrate and complement macro and micro, tradition and modernity on the premise of determining its own subject, and rely on science and technology to absorb and utilize modern scientific and technological achievements to develop traditional Chinese medicine.

To sum up, there are three views on the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine:

First, western medicine should be used to westernize Chinese medicine, that is, Chinese medicine should be westernized;

The second is to maintain the independent development of Chinese medicine;

Third, we should maintain traditional advantages and characteristics, learn from each other's strengths and complement each other's strengths, and adopt advanced science and technology according to their respective ways of thinking to seek their own development paths.

Pharmacological research content:

1, pharmacodynamics (pharmacodynamics): To study the action, mechanism, clinical application and adverse reactions of drugs on the body.

2. Pharmacokinetics (Pharmacokinetics): To study the changes and laws of drugs under the influence of the body, including the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of drugs, as well as the changes of drug dosage or plasma drug concentration with time.