代谢组学的系统论方法与中医理论的整体观具有相似的属性。近年来,随着其迅速发展,代谢组学已应用于中医"证"及其模型的研究、中药及复方的作用机制研究、中药毒理研究等。研究内容侧重于"证",关注内源性代谢组的应答(药效学与毒理学);较少涉及"方",即方剂本身及其动态变化过程(药动学)。而"辨证论治,方证对应"正是中医理论的精髓。为此,从"方证对应"的角度,浅析应用代谢组学研究中药复方配伍规律的方法,希望借此对中医药理论现代研究提供参考。

The systematic approaches of metabonomics are similar to the essential attribution in concept of the wholism for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) theories. The metabonomics had been progressively utilized to study the TCM theories, such as "ZHENG" (synelromes), or the systematic mechanism of Chinese materia medica (CMM) and its formulae by animal models, and toxicology in recent years. These studies almost focused on the responeses of endogenous metabonome to biological stimuli or genetic manipulation (pharmacodynamics and toxicology) by TCM theory of "ZHENG", while less involved the precess of formulae itself and its dynamic changes (pharmacokinetics) by TCM theory of "FANG". The "treatment by differentiating syndrome" and "Correspondence of FANG-ZHANG" is the quintessence of TCM theories. Consequently, in this idea, the application of PK-PD methods based on metabonomics and "FANG-ZHENG correspondence" to investigating the compatibility of the formulae in TCM theory is discussed in this paper.

教育部博士点基金:中药复方配伍原则的生物药剂学方法研究(2007060047);教育部博士点基金新教师基金:基于代谢组学的中药药代动力学性质高通量筛选方法研究(2008060089)