Integrated Toxicology: An Effective Solution for Explaining the 'Toxicity' of Traditional Chinese Medicine

1Key Laboratory of Modern Preparation of TCM, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, China. 2National Key Laboratory for the Modernization of Classical and Famous Prescriptions of Chinese Medicine, Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, China. 3Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, 100850, China. 4Research Center for Differentiation and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine Basic Theory, Jiangxi Uiniversity of Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, China. 5 Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 301617, China. †These authors contributed equally to this work Conflicts of interest statement: The authors declare no conflict of interest. Author contributions: Huanhua Xu drafted the manuscript. Wei Zhou and Jianfeng Yi revised the manuscript. Boli Zhang and Yue Gao revised the important intellectual content of this manuscript. All the authors have reviewed and approved the final manuscript. Ethical approval of studies and informed consent: Not applicable Data availability: Not applicable Funding: This work was financially supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (82304857), Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation (20224BAB216105, 20232BAB206167), and the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Major Project, 82192910). *Correspondence should be addressed to Boli Zhang: [email protected] and Yue Gao: [email protected] This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.