The evolution of Traditional Chinese Medicine as recombinant inventions.

ABSTRACT: It has been widely recognized that technologies evolve with recombinant inventions. However, it remains unknown whether technologies developed using different approaches would exhibit different features during evolution. In particular, would technologies developed mainly based on accumulated experience in practices-formulas of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are typical examples of such technologies-have similar evolution features found in modern technologies? This study applied network science to explore the evolution of TCM from the perspective of recombinant inventions based on 59,063 TCM formulas documented over the last two thousand years, with each formula being a combination of components that are mostly herbs. Our results show that similar to modern technological systems, the TC

SUBMITTER: Wu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11572975 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature