Xiong-Zhi Wu

1Integrative Oncology Laboratory,Tianjin NanKai Hospital,Tianjin 300060,China.

Traditional medicine has been gradually accumulated and perfected in the long history of human development. However, a large number of traditional medical studies today ignore the history and role of the research object, and the research results are difficult to integrate into traditional medicine. There is a natural gap and divide between traditional medical researchers and practitioners. A traditional research result will either be absorbed by modern medicine, or disappear in massive literature information, and only a few research results can be absorbed by traditional medicine itself.Traditional Medicine Researchhas always encouraged and helped researchers to briefly describe the historical evolution of the research subject since its inception, and promoted the development and innovation of traditional medicine research based on inheritance.

Cultural estrangement is reflected not only in the opposition and contradiction between traditional medicine and modern medicine but also in different traditional medicine systems.Traditional Medicine Researchaccepts and publishes papers on different traditional medicine systems with an open attitude, and encourages the communication, comparison, and reference of different traditional medicine systems. Based on fully guaranteeing academic quality,Traditional Medicine Researchprovides more assistance in the publication process for research papers from less developed countries and regions to encourage researchers and practitioners of traditional medicine around the world to enjoy the opportunity to publish their research.

Due to the need for evaluation of academic publishing platforms,journals always tend to publish highly cited papers. However,Traditional Medicine Researchdoes not reject certain articles that may have a low citation probability. First of all,Traditional Medicine Researchhopes to build a large platform covering all subdisciplines of traditional medicine worldwide,which requires the results of different research fields have the opportunity to be published.At the same time,due to geographical, cultural, and linguistic reasons, information on certain areas of traditional medicine is difficult to access for those who are engaged in the study and practice of traditional medicine worldwide and has value for publication. Some techniques and methods of traditional medicine are disappearing from the earth and are worthy of salvation research.Traditional Medicine Researchwelcomes the publication of its scientific findings.

What is the future of traditional medicine? Like the long river of human history, it is always flowing. Countless streams from all over the world converge into rivers, and they are the future of the great river of traditional medicine.

Competing interests

The author declares no conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgments

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Citation

Wu XZ.Forget the past,there is no future.Tradit Med Res.2023;8(1):6.doi:10.53388/TMR20220805001.

Executive editor:Chun Ling.

Received:05 August 2022;Accepted:05 August 2022;Available online:07 August 2022.

?2023 By Author(s).Published by TMR Publishing Group Limited.This is an open access article under the CC-BY license.(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).