y eeded.РIn 1971, Tu was inspired by many ancient classic works on TCM. ?Using a pioneering low-temperature method, Tu and her team first extracted artemisinin from a sweet wormwood plant(青蒿).РFor the sake of drug safety, she had personally taking tests,which led to her liver poisoning, but she still kept on working, regardless of picking samples in the wild, or in the indoor experiment study.РInspirationРAchieving modernization of TCM through science and technology. Tu‘s ess shows that TCM has to embrace modern technologies and laboratory tools and, more important, stick to the essence of the time-honored medical science, practicing innovation when using TCM theories. Tu's Nobel Prize will prompt more basic scientific research into ancient TCM texts and ways to explore research findings.