Modern Evolution of Chinese Medicine: Based on the Modern Research Course of Artemisiae Annuae Herba

Abstract

: Chinese medicine has continuously improved with society’s development for thousands of years. However, since modern times, the process of inheritance and innovation of Chinese medicine has been slowed and cannot meet the expectations and needs of the society. The authors summarized the modern research history of artemisiae annuae herba, and believed that although the artemisinins with great clinical antimalarial value had been successfully developed, the clinical value of artemisiae annuae herba had not been fully developed. It is further inferred that the clinical value of most Chinese materia medica needs to be further explored. The reason for the slow evolution of the modernization of Chinese medicine is that researchers do not give enough importance to its traditional cultural attributes, and it is imprisoned by the western modernism. Another reason is related to the complexity of Chinese medicine itself. For development, there is an urgent need to give much more importance to the traditional cultural attributes of Chinese medicine, fully apply modern scientific and technological methods, inherit the essence, and maintain integrity and innovation.