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Chinese Medicine is just like the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, portrayed in the classic storybook “Monkey King (Journey to the West).” It is very dynamic, very powerful, and very capricious. It is also very unconventional and far from controllable. In order to tame it, so that it is ready for worldwide application, it is necessary to modernize it. The Five Finger Mountain and Golden Head Ring will do the job. The five fingers represent five areas: (a) authentication, (b) quality control from Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), (c) safety documentation, (d) efficacy confirmation through evidence-based clinical and laboratory studies, and (e) computer informatics. Progress made in these five finger-areas would help to modernize Chinese Medicine. On the other hand, the Golden Head Ring, in the form of such requirements as GMP and other government policies and regulations, is helpful to keep ill-disciplined manufacturers and traders in order. Moreover, to help accelerate the modernization process, government funding agencies and the industrial sector should, like the Goddess of Mercy, provide more financial support. Once modernized, Chinese medicine would, like the Monkey King, achieve nirvana and obtain approval from the Leiyin Temple (e.g., FDA) in the West.
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But, P.PH. (2001). Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine Needs Five Finger Mountain and Golden Head Ring. In: Lin, Y. (eds) Drug Discovery and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1455-8_14
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