专业英语专业英语（Traditional Chinese Medicines）丹参丹参-甘甘 草草-何首乌何首乌-黄芪黄芪-六六 味地黄丸味地黄丸-专业词汇专业词汇Chapter 1中药研究现状及中药现代化中药研究现状及中药现代化一、加强中国药用植物基础研究及其与中药现代化的联系/Strengthening basic researches on Chinese Medicinal Plants and its relations to realizing the modernization of CMMChina is one of the earliest countries with the human civilizations in the world.Its practice of herbal medicine is old as its history.The Chinese people have accumulated a great deal of knowledge and experience in struggling against various diseases for thousands of years.A large number of traditional medicines,the majority of which were derived from plant sources,were recorded in Chinese ancient classics.Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM)has made substantial contribution to the flourish and prosperity of the nation.Today,it is still very popular in China and plays an important role in health care.Because Chinese traditional medicinal herbs are of reliable therapeutical effects and unlikelihood of inciting side-effects,they have been appreciated by the Chinese masses of people.This is especially true in the rural areas and the remote districts,where the herbs can be found and used almost at all times and places whenever necessary.Recently,with the changes of human illness the people all over the world are making an appeal to go back to the nature,and getting to like natural resource.Meanwhile the influence of Chinese herbal medicines is over increasing in many countries.However,in the 21st century,TCM will be heavily pounded by the new tide of science and technology when it comes to the world.Now all the people in China are deeply concerned with the modernization of Chinese Materia Medica(CMM).Because most of CMM is derived from plant sources,strengthening researches on the medicinal plants of China is important for realizing its modernization.二、中药资源及其研究成果/Chinese Medicinal Plant resources and achievement of its scientific research The medicinal plant resources are very abundant in China.After the foundation of the Peoples Republic of China,several large scale of surveys and special projects on the medicinal plant resources have been conducted in our country.New information concerning the Chinese medicinal resources,scientific identification,chemical constituents,pharmacological experiments and clinical applications was acquired continually.On the basis of those projects,many new works,monographs and manuals about Chinese herbal drugs were published,such as Compilation of Chinese Herbal Drugs,An Encyclopedia of Chinese Materia Medica,Chinese National Minorities Medicines,A color Pictorial Book of Herbs,The Chinese Materia Medica,A New Chinese Herbal,etc.et cetra=and so onCompilation of Chinese Herbal Drugs 全国中草药汇编全国中草药汇编An Encyclopedia of Chinese Materia Medica 中药大辞典中药大辞典Chinese National Minorities Medicines,中国少数民族药物志中国少数民族药物志 A color Pictorial Book of Herbs 中国原色本草图鉴中国原色本草图鉴A New Chinese Herbal,etc.新华本草精要新华本草精要 Science of Chinese Medicinal Herbs 中草药学中草药学Chinese Medicinal Materials 中药志中药志lAccording to the recent investigated information,there are 12807 kinds of medicinal resources in China,of which 11146 ones are d e r i v e d f r o m p l a n t s o u r c e s.T h e Pharmacopoeia of the Peoples Republic of China(2000)accepted 534 crude drugs,among which 466 ones are obtained from plants.多用多用“record”Up to now,thousands of species of medicinal plants have been screened,and some were substantiated to possess therapeutical efficacy on modern scientific basis.As is well known,artemisin is an extract from the Chinese herb Artemisia annua L.The Chinese scientists made a breakthrough in the history of treating malaria with quinine and chloroquine exclusively.Aremisnin and its derivatives(artesunate and artemether)showed marked effect in the treatment of chloroquine resistant malaria,pernicious malaria and cerebral malaria.The WHO authorities have given credits to the development of artemisinin as a great contribution to the world medicine.lchloroquine resistant malaria/抗氯喹啉疟疾抗氯喹啉疟疾lPernicious（有害的）（有害的）malaria/急性疟疾急性疟疾lcerebral malaria/脑疟疾脑疟疾lderivatives/衍生物衍生物lquinine/喹啉喹啉lMono-/一一lDi-/二二lTri-/三三lTetra-/四四lPetan-/五五lHexa-/六六lHepta-/七七lOcta-/八八lNona-/九九lDeca-/十十含含有有氮氮原原子子的的化化合合物物，在在英英文文命命名名中中多多以以-ine结结尾尾Control of population growth is a state policy of ours.Many kinds of plants were recorded in our ancient herbals,which are of help in our search for birth control drug.Trichosanthin,which has been derived from Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim.,is used for midtrimester induction of labor.Gossypol,an agent isolated from seeds of Gossypium hirsutum L.can cause male infertility.Besides,harringtonine and homoharringtonine extracted from Cephalotaxus fortunei Hook.For leukemia and malignant lymphoma,ginkgetin from Gink biloba L.,and tanshinon IIA from Salvia miltirrhiza Bge.,for coronary heart diseases,etc.have been succeeded by Chinese scientists.改为改为“developed”nQuality control is one of the important requirements for satisfactory curative effect of CMM.The scientific research 。