In recent years, a novel analytical technology, metabolomics is widely used in the modernresearch of Chinese medicine （CM）. Metabolomics adopts a ＂top-down＂ strategy to reflect the function oforganisms from terminal symptoms of metabolic network and understand metabolic changes of a completesystem caused by interventions. As a holistic approach, metabolomics technology, including nuclear magneticresonance, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, favorableto express the meaning of basic theories of CM, CM syndrome and Chinese herb. Therefore, we believe thatmetabolomics technology will greatly benefit to development for the research of CM in the light of modernsciences.
