中文摘要：

该文通过回顾我国民族医药发展现状,提出当前民族药研究的重点应是抓住其形成过程的理论经验特质与药物采、制、用等特色,形成有利于彰显民族医药特色的研究策略与方法,即药效物质基本清楚、作用机制基本清楚和民族医药理论与经验特征基本清楚;并阐述了强调民族医药理论经验特征的民族药新药创制技术体系中的3个基本方法,即“求同解异,探求不同医学体系互鉴”、“以药为线,寻找不同医药体系互融”和“品种亲缘,发掘不同医药体系多样药源”。

英文摘要：

This article reviewed the current situation of ethnomedicines in China,and propos that the important research on ethnomedicine is to focus on the theoretical and empirical characteristics of ethnomedicine and the special features in the processes of collecting,processing and clinical application of ethnomedicine,which will be benefit to find the research principles and methods with the characteristics of ethnomedicine.These principles include making clear of the effective substances and mechanisms,and theoretical and empirical characteristics of ethnomedicine.The three methods in the new drug discovery technology system for ethnomedicine are to solve the difference in varieties of traditional medical systems depending on finding the similarities of them,to find the conjunction in varieties of traditional medical systems through the key-herbs,and to find medicinal sources in varieties of traditional medical systems according to pharmaphylogeny.