Drug-Based Network Pharmacology Practice Process

Starting from the holistic and systematic of drug–target–disease interactions, network pharmacology employs complex network models to enunciate and scrutinize drug–target–disease network relationships. This chapter introduces the practice process of network pharmacology based on drugs from six aspects: active ingredients identification, mechanism analysis, compatibility theory of TCM, interaction between Chinese and Western medicines, drug repurposing, and multi-targets drug development, and attempts to provide clues with reference value for the application of network pharmacology in TCM research.