本文阐述了中药新药有效性研究的必要性,分析了中药新药在心血管、脑血管以及干细胞研究领域中的新进展,介绍了近年来中药新药有效性机理探讨的新思路、新方法,指出目前国内中药新药有效性研究中的问题。作者认为,要使中药新药有效性研究取得突破性进展,应尽快建立中医药试验方法体系。

This article expounds the necessity of the study of the effectiveness of new TCM drugs and probes into the problems emerging from this kind of study at present via the analysis of the new thoughts and methods for the effective mechanism of new TCM drugs, which have already sprung up from the study of blood vessels of brain and heart and stem cell recent years. The authors of this article hold that a breakthrough of the progress in the study of the effectiveness of new TCM drugs cannot be made unless the system of experimental methods for TCM is set up as quick as possible.

科技部国家重大基础研究项目(G1999054400)方剂关键科学问题的基础研究——方剂生物活性评价研究，负责人：刘建勋。