Traditional herbal medicine, pharmacology and complementary alternative medicine (CAM): a preface to this special issue on herbal drugs

作     者：Chiu-Yin KWAN Guest Editor of this issue, Professor of Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8N3Z5, Canada. 

出 版 物：《Acta Pharmacologica Sinica》 (中国药理学报(英文版))

年 卷 期：2000年第12期

页      面：2-3页

核心收录：

学科分类：1008[医学-中药学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1006[医学-中西医结合] 100602[医学-中西医结合临床] 10[医学] 

主　　题：this Traditional herbal medicine a preface to this special issue on herbal drugs pharmacology and complementary alternative medicine CAM 

摘      要：In China, our ancient human civilization has long used plants and other natural products, and their extracts for both healing and poisoning. The understanding of interactions between drugs and living systems was acquired via generations of knowledge accumulation based on empirical observations. This form of healing, also well documented to exist in many other cultural civilizations via a long historical experimentation, has eventually evolved itself from an art form into a scientific modality, now known as pharmacology. This recognition of a formal discipline of medicine oc-