title: [Metabonomics, pharmaco-metabonomics, and the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine].
abstract: Facing the complicated life phenomemon, both metabonomics and pharmaco-metabonomics take an organic conception of the human body, which conforms to the way of thinking of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The application of metabonomics and pharmaco-metabonomics in the modernization of TCM will deepen the evaluation of the therapeutic effects of TCM, the study of intrinsic quality of TCM syndrome and the treatment by differentiation of syndrome, facilitate the integration of TCM with modern biological science and technology, promote the modernization of TCM, and provide a new space for the development of TCM.
authors.affiliation: Group of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Research of Natural Medicines, School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
authors.forename: Jing-Chao
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Hou-Kai
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ming-Mei
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jia
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000639:trends*; D055432:Metabolomics; D012922:Social Change