Chinese medicine hospital in hubei province takes the lead in the introduction of Chinese herbal medicine DNA identification system in the country

Identify traditional Chinese medicine "copycats to eliminate counterfeit drugs to patients

Time: 2016-06-13

Source: China's traditional Chinese medicine

Author: hu dream Wan Lingxiang

Report from our correspondent (reporter hu dream correspondent Wan Lingxiang), Chinese medicine hospital in hubei province in the country take the lead in the introduction of Chinese herbal medicine DNA barcode identification system, this means that in the future to patients are through strict appraisal of true ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine. Herbal DNA barcode identification system can identify each Chinese medicinal materials of DNA, DNA than with Chinese drugs, can effectively identify traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) authenticity, this is China's institute of traditional Chinese medicine academy of sciences shi-lin Chen and his team more than 10 years of research.

Chen sl, is a great variety of Chinese medicinal materials, remove not legal drug counterfeiting, deliberately recovery factors such as mixed falsify circulation become a problem to be reckoned with, like the aristolochia kidney disease events that took place in recent years, is to identify the error. Of the traditional methods of identification of Chinese herbal medicine has certain limitation, to fully guarantee the accuracy of the authenticity identification of Chinese medicinal materials, so he had the idea of a "gene identification".

Learned, shi-lin Chen and his team of more than 8000 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine 8000 with more than 10 years of time and easy to mix falsify DNA after experimental study, obtain more than 80000 strands of DNA sequences, bar code that is medicinal materials "gene id card", built a relatively complete network of Chinese herbal medicine DNA barcode identification database. Compared with data in database, we can scientifically identify medicinal material authenticity, avoid the adr.

Hospital is the last port of patients to drugs of chick is not just a matter of the enterprise. Of hubei province Chinese TuYuanChao said, curative effect is king, and good medicine is the guarantee, the introduction of advanced system can help the hospital strictly the medicinal RuKuGuan, quantitative inspection of medicinal materials to do full cover, finally made by clinicians often curative effect the validity of the evaluation, thus we implement the "effect".

The system has been applied in many enterprises and testing organizations. Hubei province administration of traditional Chinese medicine Liu Xuean thinks, Chinese medicine hospital in hubei province as a provincial hospital, in the country take the lead in the introduction of the system is responsible for medical quality, innovation demonstration platform for identification of Chinese medicinal materials of hubei province.

From now on, it will establish a DNA barcode bioassay database, traditional Chinese medicinal materials for each specimen making special gene "id card", will be the market of medicinal materials of genes and corresponding medicine gene in the database after comparing "id card", can rapid, accurate recognition and identification. Notoginseng medicinal materials on the market, for example, genetic samples are extracted, and then with notoginseng medicinal materials gene in the database, comparing the "id card" will be able to identify the market notoginseng medicinal materials of true and false.