As the new year begins,let us also start anew.After a long time of preparation,TMR Modern Herbal Medicine,an English international academic journal specializing in the research of modernization of herbal medicine(HM),has been finally established.Here,on the behalf of TMR Modern Herbal Medicine team,I would like to acknowledge all the members of the Traditional Medicine Research(TMR)editorial board for their great support and help.We warmly welcome our readers and contributors to continue to pay attention to TMR Modern Herbal Medicine.

HM is a range of medical practices and health interventions used mainly in China for more than four millennia.As a typical naturally derived drug,HM has developed for several thousands of years and accumulated abundant human pharmacological information and experience to form an integrated theory system.However,the problems of lower product quality,substandard codes and standards have restricted its further developmentand acceptance internationally.According to the status and problems,it is concluded that the modernization of HM has become necessary and urgent.Modernization of HM means the combination of HM with modern technology,modern academic thoughts,and modern scientific culture,in which themost important point is to elucidate the active components of HM,especially the material foundation of compound prescriptions and their pharmacodynamic mechanisms.Technology of analytical chemistry and cell molecular biology are useful tools to realize the modernization of HM.

TMR Modern Herbal Medicine faces to the scientific frontier research field of modernization of traditional Chinese medicine.It focuses on the areas of herb medicinal resources and planting,processing of herbal medicine and herbalslices,herbalpreparation and production technology,pharmacology and toxicology,clinicalresearch and assessment,etc.The journal publishes peer-reviewed original articles including commentary,review,clinical and basic research,case report,clinical trials protocol,conference announcement and letters to the editor about the modern herbal medicine.

TMR Modern Herbal Medicine aims at carrying out herbal research by using modern advanced technology,excavating the potential value of herb,reporting the latest achievementtimely,and promoting the academic exchanges of herb at home and abroad,thus to achieve modernization and internationalization of herbal medicine.TMR Modern Herbal Medicine possesses a group of editorial experts in their prime of life with international academic reputation.They are high-level and young and middle aged talents who have won the support of The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars,TenThousand TalentsProgram,Outstanding Youth ScienceFoundation and Young overseashigh-level talents introduction plan,etc.Besides,there are also eminent scholars at home and abroad who enjoy great reputation,high prestige and command universal respect.These experts alltake“inheriting and developing traditional Chinese medicine”as their own responsibility,having made brilliant achievements in their fields of study.Their joining will ensure the origin and quality of the manuscripts.

Currently the development of traditionalChinese medicine has entered a fast lane.And research results emerge in an endless stream,which is in sharp contrast with the inadequacy of the way of promoting the display of achievements.We hope that this journal will be an impetus for the international development of modern herbal medicine.This journal mainly reports the research progress and discusses the modern idea of traditional Chinese medicine,carries on the scholarly discussion,and encourages herbal medicine research by using modern scientific methods.As the sister journal of TMR,TMR Modern Herbal Medicine pays more attention to the modernization of herbal medicine.

We encourage you to submityour high quality manuscripts to this new journal,and we warmly welcome the active participation of domestic or international experts with the background of TCM in the production of our journal.Please feelfree to write to us at TMRmhm@163.com about anything,at anytime.

Competing interests

The author declared that he had no competing interests.