Know the composition and You Shayong Yunnanbaiyao 


 

China Youth Daily 
  
 

     Yunnanbaiyao mysterious "state secret recipe" controversy renewed. Recently, the users in the forums and micro-Bo pointed out that some in the country is Yunnanbaiyao "secret formula" product, but was marked with a formula in the United States. User question this is a "confidential" differentiated. ("Daily News" Dec. 15) 

     WikiLeaks, I felt like the world's so-called "top secret" are clouds. The big powers of political and diplomatic secret message Secret and dissemination through the website, large heads of state to know that I'll wait for the civilian population can also be heard, but I'm probably as interesting to look at gossip and will not be as angry as foreign dignitaries. Moreover, globalization of information can explain, the Internet allows a lot of information is unable to control, this can not be discrimination against the Chinese people themselves, engage in differentiated - they know the Americans Yunnanbaiyao components, you is not know it? Even if the journalists do not report, do not you check the Internet on the line. However, so many Chinese in American life, bruises on the point after the "American version" of Yunnanbaiyao, probably will not look contests instructions, and then feel than the Chinese mainland have cognitive advantages, right?

     From the ingredient list on the composition of Yunnanbaiyao see at a glance, is not no secret, you know Baiyao Baidu, also several other versions of components. The problem is that top-secret recipe ingredients not know ah. Get through the Chinese people know, the light know what ingredients does not work, have to pay attention to one ratio with and master the furnace, or do not have to care about the money then a few two many, little more curbing, are likely to go overboard, ranging from ineffective , heavy damage to health. Presumably Yunnanbaiyao recipe lies in the unique production and processing technology, processing technology, pharmaceutical engineering, etc., can not even tell you the ingredients to produce exactly the same Yunnanbaiyao to. Sell a home like the Roubao Zi ancestral secret, you know for sure there yard bag of flour, onion ginger, meat, etc., but you still have these ingredients can not make people's taste.

    Traditional medicine in China as the world's richest countries, pharmaceutical companies in developed countries suffer from the traditional large-scale bio-pharmaceutical piracy and intellectual property with the existing system for huge profits. Such as Japan and South Korea, Europe and America's pharmaceutical companies purchased raw materials from China's low-cost drugs, shipped back to their refined and made into "Western medicine", not only occupied 95%% international market share, and sold back to the Chinese market at high prices. A large number of folk or traditional Chinese medicine sector formula, by means of a joint venture to be "foreign Chinese" companies lured away by the patent after the study break, but also to the survival of traditional medicine in China in jeopardy.

     Yunnanbaiyao of the Band-Aid, toothpaste, and other derivative products, the reason can compete with international brands in the invincible position, it also benefited from the unique "state secret recipe." If the secret is compromised, what the pharmaceutical companies to speak of dominant position? Some may say that intellectual property can be used to protect traditional medicine ah, the problem is the current intellectual property system is set up under the auspices of the developed countries, and many elements of traditional medicine can not be reasonably protected. Applications for intellectual property must first consider the novelty of their ancestors developed, a recipe handed down from generation to generation is not new and earlier, and there are intellectual property rights is often attributed to a specific person, this application for patent protection of traditional medicine is the soft underbelly of . Since the patent protection of traditional Chinese medicine is difficult, even if the "state secret recipe" some trick of the mean, at least protect the interests of pharmaceutical companies, and enhance China's soft power. Such "selfish", enterprises, national brands or national competitiveness is understandable.

     Former U.S. presidential adviser, Chinese-American scholars Dr. Zhang Xutong said: "Western policy makers believe that the Chinese-based natural medicine will become a huge space for development of strategic industries; the same time, the 'Chinese Medicine International 'as a commercial war against China. "Unfortunately, as China gradually to the international pharmaceutical market opening up, China's medicine industry has not only signs of going out, but showing a" asking for trouble "situation. Rare Yunnanbaiyao also have a place in foreign markets, we should cherish.