The leading national standard of traditional Chinese medicine is expected

The 12th Five Year Plan of national drug safety points out that "Chinese medicine standard dominates international standard setting" The author believes that this goal fully shows that China has begun to attach importance to the development of traditional medicine from the national level, and has begun to grasp the leading power of international standard formulation of traditional Chinese medicine, and has incorporated the promotion of "standardization, standardization and modernization of traditional Chinese medicine" into the key strategic tasks of the new era, so as to promote the international development of traditional Chinese medicine In reality, at present, traditional Chinese medicine can only be used as health food or food additive in most countries, and there is no legal identity of medicine People in the industry have been calling for the "proper name" of traditional Chinese medicine, and the "Chinese medicine standard leading international standard setting" index proposed in the 12th Five year plan may be an excellent opportunity If we measure traditional Chinese medicine with very strict food standards, there will be some problems such as excessive heavy metals in some products The establishment of international standards of traditional Chinese medicine will create more favorable conditions for changing this passive situation However, it is still difficult to change the situation that traditional Chinese medicine can only be used as health food or food additive in most countries through the formulation of international standards, because traditional Chinese medicine is mainly based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine in the aspect of functional indications and medication guidance, and it is unable to explain the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine with the theory of Western medicine At present, there are two routes in the industry of traditional Chinese medicine, that is, to follow the traditional theory of traditional Chinese medicine for production and to imitate the model of chemical medicine or biological medicine for research and development Therefore, in the process of establishing international standards of traditional Chinese medicine, we should combine and supplement each other, and choose according to the characteristics of different traditional Chinese medicine In the process of formulating international standards of traditional Chinese medicine, we should not only "make the past serve the present", but also "make the foreign serve the Chinese", and actively absorb the chemical and plant models In order to make Chinese medicine standards dominate international standards, we must first form and establish internationally recognized quality control concepts, scientific research methods and practical testing methods that can effectively guarantee the efficacy and safety of Chinese medicine (including ethnic medicine and natural medicine); secondly, we must speed up the development of Chinese medicine physical standards to ensure that physical standards and text standards can develop synchronously with each other Therefore, it is necessary to establish the unique international database of Chinese traditional medicine and other pharmaceutical reference materials with international influence In the process of formulating international standards for traditional Chinese medicine, first, we need to cooperate with many parties to promote the overall development Give full play to the responsibilities and roles of the government, industry associations, enterprises and relevant standardization technical committees in the construction of the international standardization system, stand at the national level, strengthen coordination and cooperation, and ensure orderly, efficient and overall promotion of work Chinese medicine enterprises and research institutions should actively participate in the development of a number of technical standards with independent intellectual property rights on the basis of existing standards, and promote the certification of international standards of Chinese medicine, so as to promote Chinese medicine to go abroad and serve the world Second, we should strengthen implementation and pay attention to actual results Through improving and strengthening the management and operation mechanism, establishing and improving the standard implementation supervision and information feedback mechanism, improving the applicability and effectiveness of the standard, forming a benign closed-loop operation system of standard formulation, standard implementation and standard revision At the same time, it is also very important to further increase the technology accumulation and R & D strength of the enterprise itself and cultivate a stable team of standard research experts.