Discussion on the idea of scientific and technological layout based on the clinical advantageous disease of Chinese medicine (gout)

<x>Abstract</x> In order to implement the requirements of the document Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Promoting the Inheritance and Innovation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, accelerate the promotion of the construction of a healthy China, adhere to the equal importance of Chinese and Western medicines, promote the mutual complementarity of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine and coordinated development, strengthen the academic exchanges and cooperation of Chinese and Western medicine in the field of preventing and controlling gout, and cultivate the high-caliber young clinical talents, the China Association of Chinese Medicine (CACM) organized the 48th Salon on Clinical Advantageous Diseases in Beijing on 21 March 2025, focusing on the combined Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment strategy of gout, bringing together experts in Chinese and Western medicine and interdisciplinary fields, and reaching specific recommendations and consensus on the combined Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment of gout through in-depth discussion. On this basis, under the leadership of the CACM, gout diagnosis and treatment problems were analyzied from the perspective of gout occurrence and development law, focusing on the advantages and characteristics of Chinese medicine and combined Chinese and Western medicine in gout diagnosis and treatment, and proposing scientific research and technological layout of gout in the following aspects: (1) Improvement of gout staging and identification system. (2) Optimization of Chinese medicine to prevent and treat gout and drug research and development. (3) Improvement of indicators for post-treatment assessment of gout. (4) Research on early warning system of Chinese and Western medicine. (5) Construction of gout co-morbidities spectrum and Chinese medicine theoretical system. (6) Research on co-morbidities mechanism of gout. (7) Chronic disease grassroots health management, and at the same time, it also puts forward the proposed layout and direction of the research, the expected goal and value and the priority of the proposed funding. Therefore, this article is based on the gout Chinese medicine advantageous disease series salon, proposed gout scientific and technological research paradigm, in order to help the high-quality development of traditional Chinese medicine.