天然药物学的现代化道路和前瞻

药物是古代先民寻找食物时发现的有用的副产品。公元1世纪时东西方的天然药物学已经发展成独立的学术体系，在中国出现了《神农本草经》，而在罗马帝国则出现了堪与之媲美的《论药物》（On Materia Medica）。在西方，文艺复兴以来，随着科学技术的迅速发展，药物学也实现了现代化，不断涌现出疗效显著的人工药物，逐渐取代了天然药物的临床应用和市场，天然药物的研究工作几乎被遗弃。然而，在中国，天然药物仍然是中医治疗疾病的主要药物，具有广阔的市场。而且近半个多世纪以来，中国医药界大力开展中药现代化和国际化的研究工作，取得了令人瞩目的成绩。所以，中国医药界已经承担起继续研究和开发天然药物的重任，填补国际上遗留的空白。

英文摘要:

Natural herbs are useful by products found by ancients when they searched and tasted natural vegetative foods. In the first century， herbal medicines had been much developed and independent academic systems had been established， as summarized separately in Chinese Shennong′s Classics of Herbs and On Materia Medica written by Dioscorides of the Roman Empire. However， following rapid progress of modern science and technologies since Renaissance， clinical application of herbs was almost replaced by more effective artificial medicines in the West world， so the scientific research of herbs was almost abandoned. But in China， herbs are still constantly used by TCM physicians in their clinical practice and scientific studies for modernization of Chinese herbs have been carried out vigorously with attractive achievements since recent half of the last century. Therefore， the gap of herbal investigation and development in Western medicine will be successfully filled in by Chinese medical field.

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