Why is more and more difficult to find authentic Chinese herbal medicine
 
 
Release date: 2014-10-16 

 
Source: China JingJiWang 

 
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        The original species, origin, growth period, picking season invariant accords with a requirement, processing method, a high content of effective components of Chinese herbal medicine. 
 
        The sixth Chinese international trade BBS has held in Russia, BBS is Chinese drugs more and more scarce, Chinese traditional medicine of traditional Chinese medicine international trade, industry reputation caused no small impact, the participating experts hope for Chinese drugs of traditional Chinese medicine industry attaches great importance to the protection. From international BBS is also caused by domestic experts, the relevant person in charge of the hospital, said more than home ecological destruction, planting of origin is not standard, the market competition, lack of talent, and is the cause of Chinese drugs now scarce. 
 
        With traditional Chinese drugs types to single digits 
 
        Beijing Chinese medicine hospital chief physician Sun Baiyang has attained the age of 90 have been practicing medicine for more than 60 years. He said a prescription in the past like in front of the medicines on "sichuan", "cloud" and "wide" origin, authentic medicinal materials can improve efficacy, ensure the curative effect. But dare not to prescribe the so now, if the origin, the hospital pharmacy hard to complete all of Chinese drugs. And the patient prescription will be out of the hospital, outside in the pharmacy this prescription, such medicines quality is even more difficult to guarantee. Patients feel the traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of slow, difficult work, part of the reason lies in the quality of Chinese medicinal materials out of the question. 
 
        What is Chinese? Beijing crane hall pharmaceutical co., LTD., vice general manager: "the original species, origin, growth period, picking season invariant accords with a requirement, processing method, a high content of effective components of Chinese herbal medicine is Chinese, but now less and less Chinese. Some Chinese herbal medicine is similar to replace species, has changed, some regions where are not suitable for planting, some of the picked artificially reduced to three years for two years, some processing methods to cut corners, etc." About problems of Chinese drugs, the guo-bao wang deep anxiety. 
 
        The relevant person in charge of Beijing Chinese medicine hospital pharmacy department said: "now hospital there are hundreds of Chinese medicine yinpian, including Chinese drugs also dozen, some traditional Chinese less, only seven or eight kinds of types of Chinese drugs." 
 
        It is hard to fall to the ground GAP operating norms 
 
        In fact, countries in order to standardize the Chinese herbal medicine planting, as early as 2003 years ago on the Chinese herbal medicine planting management practices (GAP), but the GAP has launched 11 years, a lot of specification is still hard to fall to the ground. Beijing Chinese medicine society secretary-general wang said, now the national certification for more than 100 varieties, and China has about 360 kinds of commonly used large varieties of traditional Chinese medicine. "GAP now very difficult to fully implement the planting base of Chinese medicinal materials, such as temperature, humidity standard can't draw a, need to adjust measures to local conditions, and herbalist difficult GAP operation specification, if carried out in accordance with the GAP standard production, cost to rise sharply, prices will be more higher." Anhui bozhou city Chinese medicine yinpian individual dealer Chen wei said: "now on the market the circulation of Chinese drugs in conformity with the GAP standard, like green vegetables. Hang up a piece of land in some Chinese medicine yinpian factory circle own pharmaceutical industry brand, then the land will become the pharmaceutical factory Chinese herbal medicine production base, as for whether reach the standard of GAP, it will not be achieved overnight." 
 
        For the problem of Chinese country of origin, wang said, now the circulation of Chinese traditional medicine is 60% to 60% is the country of origin, as for picking season, whether the growth of the standard, now planting base of Chinese herbal medicine is small retail investors behavior, it is difficult to standardize management. "This is like a fruit, have a plenty of carried out in accordance with the seasonal harvest, but some farmers in order to pursue interests picked ahead of time, its maturity, such as medicinal nature is difficult to guarantee." 
 
        Concentric zhangjiakou hall pharmacy co., LTD., general manager of white ice: "wild medicinal herbs is more authentic than artificial planting some, price is also planted a lot more, but for the artificial cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials into the store, we will see if this drug has qualified label, as to how Chinese medicine wholesalers from herbalist, this is in line with the growth of Chinese medicinal materials, whether carried out in accordance with the seasonal harvest, we don't know." 
 
        Market competition caused by Chinese herbal medicine is 
 
        Zhuo zhang bin, an analyst said Chinese medicinal materials and information into the Chinese market, can on mesa is high grade or quality problem of traditional Chinese medicine, but the real deal businesses could the sham as the genuine, shoddy. Dye safflower, toothpick on market as Chinese caterpillar fungus, high sulfur gastrodia elata, red Chinese wolfberry fraud technique, has been exposed many times, consumers need to polish eyes. Chen wei said, anhui have florists chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum, the sun in July florists chrysanthemum 100 yuan/kg, chrysanthemum is 60 yuan/kg, July sun chrysanthemum is 70 yuan/kg, now some druggist put July chrysanthemum chrysanthemum as florists chrysanthemum to sell or the sun, shoddy, consumers more than 95% were unable to identify. 
 
        Traditional Chinese medicine is increasingly difficult to guarantee authentic sex, consists largely in the market competition, zhang said. Notoginseng, for example, is the most representative of Chinese drugs, the origin of a single, focused only on yunnan wenshan and in honghe area, and as the sole variety is one of the important raw materials of yunnan baiyao, the market has been a steady demand. But the market appears after the "hot" notoginseng, medicinal farmers and blind expansion, merchants, stock up hype makes prices, seriously affected the market trading order, also lead to a surge in the current supply, prices collapsed. 
 
        Zhang bin revealed a set of data, the 2010 national notoginseng planting area of 80000 mu, into the harvest time of 32000 mu, annual output of 5.5 million kg, in short supply; Notoginseng planting area of about 240000 mu in 2013, the year has more than 68000 mu of into the harvest time, production has nearly 10 million kg, 7 million kg, significantly higher than the market demand, supply and demand begin to reverse. And market forecast output of no less than 20 million kg, 2014 serious supply exceeds demand. From 80000 mu to 240000 mu, in the process of Chinese traditional medicine field management, some herbalist in the pursuit of high yield, large dose often use of inorganic fertilizer or plant growth agent, its growth speed is accelerated, disrupting its own biological characteristics, thus reduce varieties degradation, medicinal properties. Its production including cultivation, management, pests and disease prevention and so on each link, to guarantee the technical quality of notoginseng will be uneven, Chinese don't like the original is not rare. 
 
        The lack of processing technology talents 
 
        Chinese is one of the standard of the traditional standard processing method, to make the medicine work well. Wang believes that now the provinces of the Chinese medicine yinpian processing with related standards and specifications, but now very lack of professional and technical personnel, and also affects the authentic of Chinese medicinal materials. 
 
        "A lot of traditional processing method to discard, some Chinese medicine yinpian factory to cut corners, cause the Chinese medicine yinpian not authentic." Guo-bao wang, for example, such as sarcocarp, according to the traditional processing method is that the sarcocarp first appearance, soaked in two layers of talcum powder, flour, and then wrapped in 3 to 5 layer then saute the talcum powder hot, flour will drop the sarcocarp oil adsorption. But in the late 1950 s, people life level is very low and the flour is very precious, you used to wrap the sarcocarp, talcum powder coated directly fry, it will affect the curative effect of sarcocarp. Sarcocarp is used for solid bowel antidiarrheal, the inside of the oil content is aperient, if it's not flour dropped the oil adsorption, this is bound to affect sarcocarp anti-diarrhea effect. "People now enjoy a higher standard of living, no shortage of flour to eat, but the sarcocarp processing is still not in flour. Traditional medicine processing method to the lost, and it is very difficult management in the production line to monitor the Chinese medicine yinpian processing." 
 
        Multi-sectoral joint management is imminent 
 
        How regulation to authentic Chinese herbal medicine become a thinking of Chinese herbal medicine industry, and guo-bao wang said that during the cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials belong to the ministry of agriculture management, in the Chinese herbal medicine processing after processing into Chinese medicine yinpian belong to the state food and drug supervision and administration of taxation and state administration of traditional Chinese medicine management, Chinese herbal medicine research belongs to the ministry of science and technology management. Traditional Chinese medicine to achieve the original standards, regulatory departments linkage, how to combined operation also need further exploration. 
 
        Compared with authentic Chinese herbal medicine falling domestic and foreign some Chinese sound momentum of development, such as South Korea's state-owned brand "is Alfred chuang ginseng," Japan's Japanese angelica, radix platycodi, central Asia, licorice, is well-known international. Emphasize on their source from medicinal plant by means of science and technology management, such as Japan to medicine record management, with several years of herbalist guidance cultivation methods, such as in cultivation link, each set seed disinfection, spraying pesticide, fertilizer use, such as application, the standardization and integration management, database and make it, from growing to terminal sales to control all the way, so as to ensure the quality of the medicinal materials. "If we follow the example of Japan for each type of traditional Chinese medicine to establish record management, at present it is difficult to do this. Now is a wide variety of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese herbal medicine planting bases and Chinese medicine yinpian factory a lot, and the good and bad are intermingled, each department linkage of Chinese herbal medicine will establish a unified, it is very difficult to resume." Association of Chinese medicine materials, vice President of longyan, said countries now on pharmacy retail links such as sampling frequency is very high, hope to further strengthen to supervise and manage the retail end it by Chinese medicine yinpian specification in the upstream operations. Chinese medicinal materials demand increases, at the same time of protecting wild medicinal herbs origin, to intensify efforts to support and standardize the artificial cultivation of Chinese country of origin, make artificial planting medicinal materials also conforms to the original standard.
 
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