Artemisinin fire out of print books of TCM, pricing fired 50 yuan to 3000 yuan

Time: 2015-11-10

Source: the chongqing evening news

Author: Peng Guangrui He Huaixiang

Tu won the Nobel Prize in medicine, artemisinin was hot search term. Recently has a avid reader of this newspaper news hotline, a book written by 20 years ago by chongqing famous TCM doctor, record books of all kinds of prescription of traditional Chinese medicine, suddenly because "act" boom boom. The book's title "hundred medicine of traditional Chinese medicine theory", has been out of print, copyrighted books online up to 3500 yuan a set of prices, and the original pricing only 50 yuan. Yesterday, chongqing evening news reporter in touch with the author, the 72 - year - old Wang Huiwu physician.

Yesterday afternoon, the reporter in taobao search "hundred medicine of traditional Chinese medicine theory", quickly found more than 200 stores, the lowest for 60 yuan, the highest price 3000 yuan.

"This kind of out of print book to far higher than the price of the pricing, so want to sell so much money." A company called "the most cheap bookstore" price 2700 yuan, the seller said that hundreds of yuan price, or is not the original book, or looks old. He promised his book looks very new.

Remember also consulted the price tens of yuan businesses, some admit belongs to copy or print pirated books, so the price is cheaper. Very few people but the original book consulting.

"Since ancient times, many folk doctors although theoretical knowledge is not comprehensive and system, but almost every one of a kind of disease or a certain medicine has its own experience. The experience is accumulated in clinical treatment, highly practical value." The author Wang Huiwu said.

Wang Huiwu before retirement is director of the second affiliated hospital of chongqing medical university regions. His introduction, he demanded by chongqing publishing house, 1992, started to compile hundreds of medicine of traditional Chinese medicine theory assemble, collection, access to all previous dynasties doctors during clinical classics, herbal monographs, the history, and more than 600 hundred, literature tied down, "categorizing texts alone, in the past time, put up several big bundle of manuscript." Wang Huiwu took him four years to compile this book, finally the book contains more than 400 kinds of Chinese medicine, prescription and unilateral, recipe for more than 5000. On artemisinin effectiveness, the book clearly written clear usage and efficacy of the treatment of malaria was not.

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"The prescriptions are compiled from classical classics of traditional Chinese medicine." City hospital cure not ill center, deputy director of the physician Li Quntang said prescription itself is very valuable. When the computer is not popular, compiling such YaoShu often need to use stupid way - will be found in each of these books make prescription into small CARDS, and CARDS to each classification, workload is huge.

Li Quntang thinks, if want to use the pharmacy medicine, should not only know the Fang Li, also suit the remedy to the case, it also needs professional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, so don't suggest that citizens according to prescription drugs on their own.