中医药
草本植物
中西医结合
医学
疾病
传统医学
替代医学
基础(证据)
草药
内科学
历史
病理
考古
作者
Xiao Gan,Zixin Shu,X Wang,Dengying Yan,Jun Li,Shany Ofaim,Réka Albert,Xiaodong Li,Baoyan Liu,Xuezhong Zhou,Albert László Barabási
出处
期刊:Science Advances
[American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)]
日期:2023-10-27
卷期号:9 (43)
被引量:5
标识
DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adh0215
摘要
Understanding natural and traditional medicine can lead to world-changing drug discoveries. Despite the therapeutic effectiveness of individual herbs, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) lacks a scientific foundation and is often considered a myth. In this study, we establish a network medicine framework and reveal the general TCM treatment principle as the topological relationship between disease symptoms and TCM herb targets on the human protein interactome. We find that proteins associated with a symptom form a network module, and the network proximity of an herb's targets to a symptom module is predictive of the herb's effectiveness in treating the symptom. These findings are validated using patient data from a hospital. We highlight the translational value of our framework by predicting herb-symptom treatments with therapeutic potential. Our network medicine framework reveals the scientific foundation of TCM and establishes a paradigm for understanding the molecular basis of natural medicine and predicting disease treatments.
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