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Review
. 2020 Dec:216:107680.
doi: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2020.107680. Epub 2020 Sep 18.

Chinmedomics, a new strategy for evaluating the therapeutic efficacy of herbal medicines

Ying Han  1 , Hui Sun  1 , Aihua Zhang  1 , Guangli Yan  1 , Xi-Jun Wang  2
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Review

Chinmedomics, a new strategy for evaluating the therapeutic efficacy of herbal medicines

Ying Han et al. Pharmacol Ther. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

Herbal medicines have accumulated valuable clinical experience in thousands of years of applications in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) or ethnomedicine. The unique multi-target efficacy on complex diseases made herbal medicines gained a global popularity in recent years. However, the characteristic of multi-component acting on multi-target poses a dilemma for the evaluation of therapeutic efficacy of herbal medicines. Advances in metabolomics enable efficient identification of the various changes in biological systems exposed to different treatments or conditions. The use of serum pharmacochemistry of TCM has significant implications for tackling the major issue in herbal medicines development-pharmacodynamic material basis. Chinmedomics integrates metabolomics and serum pharmacochemistry of TCM to investigate the pharmacodynamic material basis and effective mechanisms of herbal medicines on the basis of TCM syndromes and holds the promise of explaining therapeutic efficacy of herbal medicines in scientific language. In this review, the historical development of chinmedomics from concept formation to successful applications was discussed. We also took the systematic research of Yin Chen Hao Tang (YCHT) as an example to show the research strategy of chinmedomics.

Keywords: Chinmedomics; Herbal medicines; Pharmacodynamic material basis; Quality control of herbal medicines; TCM syndrome.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest Ying Han, Hui Sun, Aihua Zhang, Guangli Yan, and Xi-jun Wang declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

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The systematic methodology of Chinmedomics.
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The systematic research of Yin Chen Hao Tang (YCHT) treating Yanghuang syndrome (YHS) using chinmedomics research strategy.
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Key technological platforms in chinmedomics strategy.
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