摘要With the awarding of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Chinese pharmacologist Tu Youyou,and the significant contributions of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)for coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19),TCM has garnered increasing attention and interest globally.Although advanced research progress has been made in the efficacy re-search,mechanism elucidation and target prediction of TCM in recent years[1],there is still no generic way to understand TCM and apply them to clinical practice from the perspect-ive of modern biomedical science.Recently,Gan et al.estab-lished a network medicine framework centered on protein in-teractome(also referred to as protein-protein interaction net-work)to indicate the probability of co-occurrence of symp-toms and the effectiveness of herbs in treating specific symp-toms by analyzing network topology relationships[2].