|
KMID : 0861120160200010098
|
|
Korean Journal of Oriental Preventive Medicine
2016 Volume.20 No. 1 p.98 ~ p.110
|
|
|
Application of Systems Biology to Traditional Korean Medicine
|
|
Park Yeong-Chul
Lee Sun-Dong
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
In Korea and China, traditional medicine's holistic approaches, based on the views of whole-body and whole-person, have been applied to make the solution of health problem. However, these holistic approaches of traditional korea or chinese medicine have been limited in interpreting their theories in a view of modern scientific aspects of medicine. This limitation seems to be mainly due to the reductionism approaches of modern scientific medicine. Traditionally, science has taken a reductionism approach; dissecting biological systems into their constituent parts and studying them in isolation. However, systems biology based on omics technologies is providing a new thought and method for traditional medicine's research and interpretation. Systems biology uses integrity study as the characteristic and bioinformatic technology as the key method for connecting reductionism and holism. Therefore, it has much in common with the theory of traditional medicine. It was reviewed that how systems biology is applied to traditional medicine in Korea and China. Also it was suggested that more future researches on interpretation between traditional medicine and systems biology must be focused on personalized medicine since systems biology will have a major impact on future personalized therapeutic approaches.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Korean traditional medicines, Systems biology, Holism, Omics
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|