Tu Yu won the award and is hard to change

Tu Mu and artemisinin have become a major hot spot in the country almost overnight. On September 23, local time, the 81-year-old Chinese female scientist Tu Yu received the famous Lasker Award from the international medical community in New York. Apart from pride, this good news also allows us to think about how we can make Chinese medicine this national treasure better to the world. On September 25 and 26, a number of experts said that at present, many countries are investing more in researching Chinese medicine, and as a place of birth we must have a sense of urgency.

"We are very happy as Chinese medicine practitioners."

After Tu Mu received the Lasker Award, many practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine felt "awesome". Zhao Guolei, Director of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Qingdao Municipal Health Bureau is one of them. On September 26, he said in an interview with reporters: "Although I don't know Tu Tuo, she was able to win this award. We are all very happy to be TCM practitioners." Director Zhao also said that as early as 10 days Before he went to Beijing on a business trip to attend a Chinese medicine conference, he heard that the artemisinin project was going to receive the "Lacek Prize." Even though artemisinin has become a modern Chinese medicine preparation, it found that its carcass was obtained. The international awards are sufficient to illustrate the international community's recognition of traditional Chinese medicine."

Dr. Yan Haitao, director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Affiliated Hospital of Qingyang Medical College, believes that this is the recognition and recognition of the precious legacy left by the ancestral ancestors in the world. Dr. Liu Lian, Director of Acupuncture and Massage Rehabilitation Department of Qingdao Haici Medical Group Co., Ltd. and Shizhong Hospital, said, “This is really a great encouragement for those who are engaged in the Chinese medicine business.”

Foreign students keen to learn Chinese medicine

“Now, our traditional Chinese medicine has become the largest number of foreign students in the field of natural science to accept the largest number of professional.” The mention of foreigners learn Chinese medicine, Zhao Guolei's pride in words. To illustrate the foreigners’ enthusiasm for Chinese medicine, Director Zhao also gave an example: “As early as 1991, once, we organized a Chinese medicine expert to visit Russia for an exchange visit. At the beginning, Russian medical experts were very interested in China. Acupuncture and moxibustion are not familiar, but they were all shocked when we got a patient in the hospital and stuck a stone on the spot. Later, many medical personnel in Russia learned about traditional Chinese medicine.”

Liu Li'an also has a deep understanding of foreigners' enthusiasm for learning Chinese medicine. Haici Hospital, which is rich in Chinese medicine, often accepts foreign students who come to practice. Liu Li-an, who has a good reputation in acupuncture, will bring these students. On one occasion, "People's Daily" (Overseas Edition) published a report about his treatment with acupuncture. The result caused a lot of reactions in the Netherlands. Many people who wanted to learn acupuncture call the Chinese Embassy in the Netherlands to consult related matters. . For a time, the Chinese Embassy in the Netherlands was called off and the Embassy contacted Haici Hospital after many setbacks to help the Dutch inquire about the school.

Chinese medicine "squeaking" the world, we must have a sense of urgency

Zhao Guolei said: "Now we often talk about international standards, but in terms of Chinese medicine, I think we must let the international community join us. We must take "I" as the standard and formulate a set of detailed industry standards for them to learn. Above, this work has already begun in our country."

Liu Lian said: “South Korea and Japan have been studying acupuncture, and some people have even called out acupuncture belongs to their slogan. Four or five years ago, South Korea once thought to formulate a unified acupuncture point spectrum standard. Later in our protest Under the circumstances, they did not realize it.” Yan Haitao said without hesitation: “Now there is a saying that our acupuncture will be fine in 5 to 10 years, but it will be difficult to say whether or not we can maintain our advantages after 20 years.”

A tiny detail of this killing award made Zhao Guolei feel that there is still a lot of work to do in the internationalization of Chinese medicine. This detail is about an expression of the killer's award "because it was discovered that artemisinin is a drug used to treat malaria." “This sentence actually hides an important message, that is, foreign recognition of a single Chinese herbal ingredient, if it is a variety of Chinese medicine ingredients together, it is difficult to get international recognition. For example, let's go and catch a Chinese medicine, both inside There are licorice, cassia twigs, almonds, etc. In this case, western medicine experts may not recognize it. In this regard, it has been recognized by the international community and we still have a lot of work to do.”

Links to commonly used drugs without artemisinin

“Artemisinin is only a medicine for the treatment of malaria. The common drugs used by the public do not contain such ingredients.” On the 26th, Zhao Guolei, Director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Municipal Health Bureau, introduced the identity of artemisinin to reporters.

Like the name of the murderer's researcher, most people do not understand Artemisinin. Although this is a medicine for the treatment of malaria, malaria has almost disappeared with the improvement of medical and health conditions. Therefore, very few people can use this medicine. Director Zhao said that artemisinin is a component extracted from Artemisia annua, and Artemisia annua is a herb of the Asteraceae family. It was far away from ancient times and Chinese medicine has already studied it. Artemisia annua contains components for the treatment of malaria. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" is also recorded. However, according to the records at the time, patients had to be treated with Jiaozhi when they used Artemisia annuus to treat diseases. Later, with the advancement of medicine, this practice has gradually been replaced. Artemisinin is now extracted from Artemisia annua and made into medicine using modern technology for patients to take. In the art of extracting artemisinin, Tu Tu made important contributions. After repeated trials by her and her colleagues, she finally thought of using an ether with a lower boiling point to make an extract of Artemisia annua. ”

Director Zhao also made it clear that artemisinin is only a medicine for the treatment of malaria, and the public's commonly used drugs do not contain this ingredient.