Research progress and application of network toxicology in traditional Chinese medicine
As an important part of Chinese traditional medicine,traditional Chinese medicine has a long history and wide application.As people paid more attention to the curative effect and safety of Chinese medicine,to realize the toxicology of risk assessment and improve the safety of traditional Chinese medicine,Liu Changxiao academician et al.'s in 2007 proposed network toxicology(network toxicology)method,which was an important method for utilizing network data analysis and improving the efficiency of traditional Chinese medicine toxicity prediction.Network toxicology as an effective research method began to be widely used in the field of traditional Chinese medicine.This paper introduced the concept and research methods of network toxicology,listed the application of network toxicology in predicting the potential toxic components of Chinese medicine in recent years,discussed the existing problems and challenges of network toxicology,and aimed to provide a reference for the application of network toxicology in the prediction of TCM-related components.