The feverish debates on Tu Youyou, lasting for two months, is climaxing as the coming of the Nobel Prize Award ceremony.
On 7th afternoon of the local time, Tu Youyou delivered a lecture named" Artemisinin - A Gift from Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World" at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. She elaborated the progress of discovering Qinghaosu, and quoted Chair Mao's words:“ traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacy is "a great treasury."
As for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), no matter Tu’s lecture in the "sanctuary" of natural science, or the coming Nobel Prize, are all its great vindications. Standing ahead of the science field in the world, TCM is "seen " by the world in a real sense of meaning, and it has more opportunities to communicate with the world for this kind of "seen." Communication is the impetus to development after dispersing layers of fog. It is the greatest contribution for Tu and her teammates that they dispersed the fog and made the communication possible. …show more content…
Anyone who learned about Tu's report or her studies believes that the discovery of Qinghaosu benefits both from the accumulation and inspiration of TCM's "Treasury" and the strictly experimental method of Western medicine. Lacking either of them, the wheel of history will turn a different direction. In another word, before facilitating the communication between Chinese and West medicine in Nobel-Prize stage, the accomplishment Tu and her team has made is the result of long-term