Traditional Chinese materia medica: a retrospect and prospect

Abstract

For thousands of years, traditional medicine and remedies have been practiced and used in the fight against disease in China. They have proved to be valuable and the distillate of vast historical experience based on field-tested human experiments, long-term observations and clinical trials. The Chinese people believe that traditional medicine is consistent with their own culture. Endowed with a unique theoretical system and provided outstanding clinical results, traditional Chinese medicine continues to play an important role in helping the Chinese nation flourish.

Guzhi Zengsheng Zhitongwan, a Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formulation, Stimulates Chondrocyte Proliferation through Control of Multiple Genes Involved in Chondrocyte Proliferation and Differentiation

“…CMM is an essential component of traditional Chinese medicine; it relies on Chinese medicinal formulas consisting of 2 or more types of CMM and has played a pivotal role in health protection and disease control for thousands of years [ 2 ]. In other words, CMM have already provided outstanding clinical results, since they have been tested in human experiments with long-term observation periods and in clinical trials [ 3 ]. For instance, Guzhi Zengsheng Zhitongwan (GZZSZTW), a Chinese medicinal formulation created by the national medical master professor Bailing Liu, has been used in the Affiliated Hospital of Changchun University of Chinese Medicine for several decades to treat joint diseases such as osteoarthritis.…”