Chen Chieh-pu points out that these prescriptions developed from thousands of years of clinical experience and that the bioactive components in natural medicines have provided the basis for many newly developed drugs. But there is little in the way of scientific evidence and analysis about Chinese herbal medicines, and scant research into how their active ingredients achieve their effects.
陳介甫表示，中藥療效不僅有數千年的使用經驗，天然藥材中許多生物活性物質，更是新藥研發的構想來源，但欠缺的是科學性的驗證與分析，及對藥材成分是如何作用、達到治療功效的探究。