Chinese and British scientists cooperate to seek new drugs from traditional Chinese Medicine

A two-year Sino British science and technology cooperation project will officially start this month, the Times reported Thursday Dr Stephen Minger, a British stem cell scientist who presides over the project, will travel to Shanghai, China, to bring together scientists studying Alzheimer's disease in the UK and Chinese researchers, hoping to find new drugs to treat the disease from traditional Chinese medicine If the project is successful, Chinese medicine may provide us with drugs that we have never been exposed to before, Minge said Rebecca Wood, head of Alzheimer's Research UK, also believes that looking for possible treatments from traditional Chinese medicine will open up new ways of treatment In recent years, the Chinese government has invested in research on the extraction of conventional drugs from traditional Chinese medicine Minge said that China has been committed to research in this area and has a national laboratory specializing in traditional Chinese medicine Minge pointed out that it is not easy to extract conventional drugs from traditional Chinese medicine Because each traditional Chinese medicine prescription contains a lot of traditional Chinese medicines, it is difficult to confirm whether one of them has played a role or a combination of several traditional Chinese medicines The study began with the identification of a potentially effective prescription Scientists will use modern technology and elimination methods to test the efficacy of each traditional Chinese medicine in traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, and remove ineffective drugs until there are only a few chemical ingredients left in the prescriptions Minger said that for British scientists, scientific cooperation between China and the west is an important way to promote scientific progress He believes that the traditional Chinese medicine system based on the energy flow in the body and the balance of yin and yang can promote the development of Western medicine based on the argument.