Chinese medicine is getting darker and darker. Can artemisinin from Tu Youyou prove that Chinese medicine is scientific?

20 1 1 In September, Tu Youyou won the Lasker Prize, which is known as the "weather vane" of the Nobel Prize, and in October, 20 15 10, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a new method of artemisinin to treat malaria. This feat undoubtedly proves the existence of Chinese medicine.

Nowadays, whenever we have a headache and a cold, the first thing we think of is to go to the hospital to see western medicine, eat some western medicine and have an injection, which has become more and more inertia in our lives. However, in ancient times, when people were sick, there was no western medicine today, and people relied on Chinese medicine handed down from our older generation to this day. It is not that Chinese medicine is necessarily better than western medicine, but that Chinese medicine, as a Chinese culture passed down to this day, is a treasure of our Chinese culture.

65438-0969, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine accepted the research task of antimalarial drugs. Tu Youyou led the research group to systematically collect and sort out the medical books, materia medica and folk prescriptions of past dynasties. On the basis of collecting more than 2,000 prescriptions, he compiled a collection of anti-malaria prescriptions with 640 kinds of drugs as the main ones, and conducted experimental research on more than 200 kinds of Chinese medicines. After more than 380 failures, he used modern medicine and methods to analyze and study, and constantly improved.

This undoubtedly shows that Chinese medicine is a real scientific existence, not a "crooked way" in the eyes of foreigners. Seeing, hearing, asking and feeling in TCM are real scientific means, which are based on our human body mechanism. Artemisinin in Tu Youyou is the leading western medicine who proposes to cure malaria. Isn't this the true embodiment of scientific truth?