在抗癌药物要回归大自然的呼声中,有关研究单位遴选出我国特有的中药温莪术(又称温郁金)作为研究对象,通过十余年不懈的努力,终于在温莪术的挥发油中寻找到抗癌活性物质榄香烯。继而由国家科委、国家医药管理局共同组织,大连医药科学研究所承担“八五”国家科技攻关课题——榄香烯抗癌的临床应用研究。1992年 Anti-cancer drugs to return to the voice of nature, the research unit to select our unique Chinese medicine Curcuma (also known as warm turmeric) as the research object, through more than ten years of unremitting efforts, finally Curcuma volatile oil to find the anti- Cancer active substance elemene. And then jointly organized by the State Science and Technology Commission, the State Pharmaceutical Administration, Dalian Institute of Medical Sciences to undertake the “Eighth Five-Year” national scientific and technological project - elemene anticancer clinical research. 1992