In recent years, support for the development of Chinese medicine did not stop, Chinese medicine new drug declaration and approval of a record number, inspired the domestic Chinese medicine research and development enterprises to seek new breakthroughs to speed up the pace of new drugs to the world.
Zhang Baoxian, a senior researcher at the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and chairman of Beijing PCR Innovative Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, mentioned that the development of Chinese medicine has been driven by the policy of inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine, and the achievements have been obvious to all. However, the people's demand for Chinese medicine is increasing, and the country is pushing forward the cultivation of new qualitative productivity oriented by more significant clinical value. These internal and external factors have prompted Chinese medicine to move towards a new situation in which Chinese and Western medicine can be upgraded more quickly and truly realised.
The clinical value of Chinese medicine has gradually become the core of the high-quality development of Chinese medicine. Sun Xiaobo, the former director of the Institute of Medicinal Plants of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, believes that ‘from the clinic to the clinic, it is important to establish a key technology system for the post-marketing evaluation of Chinese medicines’, which is also a reflection of the further excavation of clinical value. Based on the core efficacy of the drug, the evaluation system of the efficacy mechanism of pCm varieties is established through network pharmacology, integrated pharmacology and bioinformatics, etc. The system is used to evaluate the therapeutic effects of pCm varieties on major diseases, and to thoroughly study the mechanism of their effects, find out the key targets of the efficacy and the signalling pathway, and highlight the overall effects of the pCm varieties. The system will be used to evaluate the therapeutic effects of large varieties of pCms on major diseases, and to study their mechanism of action in depth, identify the key targets and signalling pathways of efficacy, so as to highlight the overall effect of large varieties of pCms and to reflect their clinical value.