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. 2016 May;17(5):405-8.
doi: 10.1631/jzus.B1600094.

A great honor and a huge challenge for China: You-you TU getting the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Da Yuan  1 , Xue Yang  2 , Jun-Chao Guo  1
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A great honor and a huge challenge for China: You-you TU getting the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Da Yuan et al. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 2016 May.

Abstract

Public excitement over the award of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to the Chinese medical scientist You-you TU for the discovery of a herbal anti-malarial, may mislead the Chinese people into believing that traditional Chinese herbal medi-cine can be used to cure all disease without any ad-verse effects. The aim of this paper is to explain the advantages and disadvantages of herbal traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) objectively.

Keywords: Adverse effects; Artemisinin; Herbal traditional Chinese medicine; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Conflict of interest statement

Compliance with ethics guidelines: Da YUAN, Xue YANG, and Jun-chao GUO declare that they have no conflict of interest.

This article does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by any of the authors.

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