Chinese and western medicine should learn from each other's strengths, make continuous progress in competition and research methods, and strengthen integration from both technical and cultural aspects.
Therefore, the innovative research methods of traditional Chinese medicine are: first, the essence of inheritance is unshakable, rough and not conservative. On the path of innovation, we should break through key technologies and reform processes through thinking jumps and innovative ways, so as to invent and innovate. The second is high grafting, introduction, digestion, absorption and innovation. Traditional Chinese medicine should be integrated with other disciplines, introducing system theory and cybernetics, bioengineering, informationization, molecular biology and modern diagnostic methods, and integrating modern talents and technology to achieve the purpose of innovative methods. The third is to develop characteristic Chinese medicine products. Include that protection and secondary development of classical prescriptions, the research and development of medical device based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and the health services provided for patient, the elderly, special groups, leisure and health care. The fourth is to build a Chinese medicine culture.
In my opinion, the progress of TCM methodology is bound to bring about a major breakthrough.