In biotech research involving Chinese herbal medicines, there are two basic directions: The first is to go the Western route by extracting components of herbal medicines, determining their molecular structures and active ingredients, and going on to develop drugs.
在中草藥的生物科技研究路上，大致上可分成兩條不同方向，一條是在天然草藥中萃取單一成分，訂出分子結構，研究藥理活性，走的是西方新藥開發的路線。