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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 8 On Systems Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine [Keywords:] Systems Biology, Chinese medicine, Chinese herbal compound, chemical genomics Systems Biology is aimed at understanding biological systems from the overall height of the new field of study, representing the future of biology in the 21st century. With the development of systems biology and its theoretical breakthrough in medical research will be of significant impact. If the study of Chinese medicine combined with systems biology, it will be possible from the system point of multi-target interpretations of Chinese medicine, balance conditioning, both the root causes of the treatment mechanism and the molecular mechanism for the medical research to provide new ideas. 1 Systems Biology and Medicine TCM is an integral part of the life sciences to the overall concept, diagnosis and treatment, prescription intervention distinctive characteristics, is an application of information control (and change the system by measuring the input and output to adjust the system state), and as primary means of medical care [1]. admissions of patients on the first Chinese to take away the guess method, for four diagnostic information about what state the body, and through a variety of dialectical method to analyze the information, according to Chinese medicine of the last the best taste and recipe information on the compatibility of combinations of prescription, to mobilize the body of this complex system of self-repair capacity, the imbalance in the pathological state of human adjustment to the balance in the best condition to resist outside intrusion, thus making it to the health state of transformation. This “holistic view”, “dynamic concept”, “dialectical view” is a feature of traditional Chinese medicine theory, and systems biology share a common philosophical basis of medical, research ideas are also coincide. Therefore, the development of Chinese medicine can learn from biomedic