Ideas and methods of pharmacological research on TCM tonic medicine
Sarmad Sheraz Jadoon1 DING Li2 ZHANG Shunbo2 LI Fan2 YOU Qiuyun2
1.Department of Overseas, Hubei University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hubei Province, Wuhan 430065, China;
2.Department of Pharmacy, Hubei University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hubei Province, Wuhan 430065, China
Abstract:Tonic medicine is one of the important chapters in courses such as "Chinese materia medica", "pharmacology of traditional chinese Medicine" and some others. In order to make students better grasp the contents of this chapter, and apply it both to real life and to TCM clinical treatment, this article explores the ideas and methods of researches on tonic medicines from the four aspects including the functions of tonic medicines in regulating the nerve-endocrine-immune system, the effects of tonic medicines on metabolism, the exploration on animal models with deficiency syndromes and varied research focuses of different tonic medicines. The purposes of the research are to establish the scientific methods and approaches for researches on tonic medicines, and lay a solid foundation for better explaining the scientific connotation of the medical treatment by tonic medicines under the guidance of TCM theories and for providing guidance to the scientific and rational doses of TCM clinical treatment.