How Many Traditional Chinese Medicine Components Have Been Recognized by Modern Western Medicine? A Chemoinformatic Analysis and Implications for Finding Multicomponent Drugs

Kong De, Xue‐Juan Li, Guang‐Yan Tang, Hongyu Zhang

ChemMedChem · 2007 · 43 citations · 9 references

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Abstract

Merging east and west. Through a global structural comparison between traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) components and modern Western drugs, it is revealed that a certain part of TCM components have been recognized by modern Western medicine, which suggests that TCM, at least in part, has a scientific basis.

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