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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
WUHAN, June 23 (Xinhua) — China has launched a large database of medicinal plant components in central China’s Hubei Province, marking significant progress in technological innovation in the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) sector.
The database, which was developed by a team of specialists from the Hubei Shizhen Laboratory, is the largest of its kind in Central China.
Wang Qi, head of the Hubei Shizhen Laboratory, said at a presentation Sunday in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, that the database is designed to stimulate the transition of medicinal plant research “from experience-based practice to science-based innovation” by creating an accurate “digital portrait” of medicinal resources in central China.
The head of the development team of the said database, Liu Yifei, spoke about the scale and capabilities of the database.
According to him, the database, which contains more than 20 million records, combines information from ancient works such as Shennong Bencaojing (Shen Nong’s Treatise on Roots and Herbs), Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Medicinal Substances), as well as modern authoritative collections of TCM, including data on multidimensional medicine, including genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomics.
It systematically catalogues the widely used medicinal resources in Central China and also compiles a comprehensive collection of natural components of various kinds.
“This creates a foundation for the development of new TCM drugs and health products,” Liu Yifei emphasized. -0-