Abstract
Objective: China mainland and Taiwan are separated by the Taiwan Strait, but their land edges are close to each other, blood relationship is very compact, and the origin is profound, the communication of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) between China mainland especially Fujian and Taiwan district is more and more frequent. From the actuality and situation of traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacy (TCMP), the objective of this study was to briefly expound the points to which attention should be attached urgently in education, research and development of TCM between China mainland especially between Fujian and Taiwan, and be provide with several resolving threads and recommenddations to aim directly at the attention points, and wish it can offer some assistance to the development and generalization of the cross-Strait TCMP. Methods: The China Statistical Yearbook of Chinese Medicine (1987-2010), the Yearbook of Public Health of Taiwan (2009), the full-text data base of China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) (1993-2009), provides information on research and education in TCMP acrossTaiwan Straitin the last 10 years. The methods of analysis and comparison are applied in this study to show the TCMP situation betweenTaiwanandChinamainland. Result: Due to the differences in history, district, policy and legislation, the TCMP’s industry and trade, education, research and exploitation, standard and so on, have lots of differences betweenTaiwanandChinamainland, and many barriers are produced in the communication and cooperation of cross-Strait TCM and pharmacy. Conclusion: China mainland especially Fujian and Taiwan have the fierce intention to carry out thorough investigation in many territories of TCMP. The prospects and development space of communication and cooperation of cross-Strait TCMP are quite broad.
Highlights
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is the splendid cultural treasure of the Chinese nation, and with long history and several thousand years of medication experience, it has accumulated a great deal of valuable materia medica data, which has an important guiding role on new medicine research and development (R&D)
China mainland and Taiwan are separated by the Taiwan Strait, but their land edges are close to each other, blood relationship is very compact, and the origin is profound, the communication of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) between China mainland especially Fujian and Taiwan district is more and more frequent
To face the development and opportunities in the new history period, the cross-Strait medical academia and industry both generate the resonance from the academic to the industrial cooperation, give full play to their respective preponderance to jointly study and resolve the key issues that constraining the development of traditional Chinese medicine, and establish the long-term mechanism of cross-Strait traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacy (TCMP) cooperation
Summary
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is the splendid cultural treasure of the Chinese nation, and with long history and several thousand years of medication experience, it has accumulated a great deal of valuable materia medica data, which has an important guiding role on new medicine research and development (R&D). Has formed its own unique and complete pharmacological system, due to the traditional route of administration and dosage form is more backward, effect shows slowly, and is difficult to standardize and normalize, especially the complicated ingredients in Chinese herbal medicine, the substantial basis of effect is not wholly clear, pharmacodynamic mechanism of action is not well known, and the content determination method is relatively rough. This greatly limits the industry development of Chinese medicine in China. We should thoroughly utilize this opportunity to positively strengthen the cooperation and communication on traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacy between China mainland and Taiwan district and to make up for each other’s deficiencies, overcome the existing problems and share the benefits
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