Writing Explanation

This book is one of the National “Thirteenth Five-Year-Plan” Innovative Textbooks for Higher Education in Chinese Medicine Industry and part of “the Experimental Teaching Material Series on Pharmacy and Chinese Materia Medica of the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center”.The course of Pharmaceutical Integrated Experiments,as a unique curriculum for the undergraduates of pharmacy (Sino-UK cooperation),is jointly given by the College of Chinese Pharmacology and National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center,Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.This course includes an introduction,learning guidance,integrated experiments,expanded experiment and related knowledge links.Based on the current guidelines and regulations of new drug research and development of Chinese Materia Medica,the course focuses on the new drug research and development and has integrated related experimental methods,techniques and skills from multiple disciplines such as Pharmacognosy,Natural Medicinal Chemistry,Pharmaceutics,Analytical Chemistry and Pharmacology,etc.so as to improve students’ problem analyzing and solving ability and lay the foundation for the engagement in the new drug research and development of Chinese Materia Medica and natural medicines in the future.This textbook is divided into two parts.Part one,written in both Chinese and English,focuses on pharmaceutical experiments.Part two,written in Chinese,mainly introduces basic knowledge related to new drug research and development of Chinese Materia Medica and natural medicines,retrieval of pharmaceutical literatures and scientific paper writing.Considering the different expression nuances of Chinese and English,one should be aware that it is not a literal translation.Besides pharmacy students (Sino-UK cooperation),this teaching material is also available for undergraduates and postgraduates majoring in Chinese Materia Medica and Chinese Pharmaceutics.

We are grateful to Prof.De-an Guo,from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica,Chinese Academy of Sciences,for his effort in translating several chapters into English; meanwhile,we would like to express our gratitude to him and Dr.Don Green,School of Human Sciences,London Metropolitan University,for their great efforts made for English language and polishing of this book.