A preliminary metabonomics study of pulmonary-qi deficiency syndrome of COPD intervened with TCM / 国际中医中药杂志

ABSTRACT

The rising ofmetabonomics after genomics and proteomics offers chances for the modernization of TCM.Metabonomics has much in common with TCM in the cognition of human body. Appropriate application of the methodology of metabonomics in TCM, such as TCM differential diagnosis and guidance of clinical treatment, would speed up the integration of TCM and modem life science and technology. Meanwhile the research of COPD in TCM will come into a new stage through the use of metabonomics. This article overviewed the current situation of Chinese medicine using metabolomics technology to raise its theory, science and diagnostic level, and the study of pulmonary-qi deficiency syndrome of COPD with metabonomics.