2007/07/01 · 2 citations
Health Professions · Medicine · #Dysphagia Assessment and Management #Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/448106a
openalex publication_date 2007/07/01 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Is it possible to gauge the true potential of traditional Chinese medicine? Trawling for useful drugs in the arcane potions of traditional Chinese medicine is not new. With a few exceptions, the well looks dry. But now pharmacologists are turning to a more modern 'holistic' approach to interrogate the millennia-old practice more thoroughly. If the staying power of traditional cures is due to complex combinations of active ingredients, the thinking goes, systems biology will reveal them.