The Organizational Act of The National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Ministry of Health and Welfare Article 2

NRICM shall be in charge of the following matters:1. To investigate theories of Chinese medicine and diagnostic criteria.2. To assess therapeutic efficacy by Chinese medicine based therapeutic technique.3. To study the origin, identification, preservation, and cultivation of Chinese material medica.4. To study the extraction, fractionation, purification, and structure determination of bioactive constituents from Chinese medicine, and matters related to medicinal chemistry.5. To evaluate pharmacology, toxicology, efficacy and safety-related issues of Chinese medicine.6. To study the standardization and quality control of Chinese medicine and related preparations.7. To collect, preserve, research on and develop for literature and classics of Chinese medicine.8. To train professionals, and establish international collaborations, in the field of Chinese medicine9. Other matters related to research of Chinese medicine.
中文原文 衛生福利部國家中醫藥研究所組織法第2條
本所掌理下列事項:
一、中醫理論及診斷基準之研究。
二、中醫醫療技術之療效評估。
三、中藥材基源鑑定、種源保存及培育之研究。
四、中藥藥理成分之分離、純化、鑑定及其他藥物化學有關之研究。
五、中藥藥理、毒理與相關安全性之研究及療效評估。
六、中藥及其製劑品質基準之研究。
七、中醫藥典籍之收集、保存、研究及發展應用。
八、中醫藥研究與專業人員之培訓及國際合作。
九、其他有關中醫藥研究事項。

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