Traditional Chinese medicine change "noble

medicine" not entirely to blame inflows

China youth daily

ZhangHaiTong

    "Previously open a take medicine six or seven dollars money, now 20 yuan the following basic couldn't open out..." Recently, shandong with TCM doctors told reporters. 3 take cold medicine nearly 160 yuan, 3 of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of coronary heart disease served nearly 200 yuan... Facing a rising ZhongYaoFei, originally "Jane, then, check and cheap", Chinese traditional medicine, zha once became ordinary people ChiBuQi "noble medicine"? (the shandong economic daily May 9)

    In many people's mind, "Jane, then, check and cheap" is not only the traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine is compared with the characteristics of medical market in the mainstream, a powerful position of the remarkable superiority of western medicine. Now, part of traditional Chinese medicine prices, people can't help but to worry about the survival and development of traditional Chinese medicine.

    So, part of why the soaring price of traditional Chinese medicine? Somebody thinks, in Chinese herbal medicine market liquidity is finding a way behind push, some bad hoarding part of Chinese traditional medicine, to hype the push the high prices. Indeed, inflows hype have played a crucial role. So, someone claims that, should strengthen market supervision and severely punish the hype behavior. In other words, is to use administrative power this only visible hand to intervene in the market price of Chinese herbal medicine. In prices waged, inflation trend very clear right now, this kind of view most propbably is popular with the public welcome.

    Considering our administrative power of strong, as long as the government to intervene, Chinese traditional medicine virtual willing + and high prices fall. However, modern economics common sense tells us that certain commodities short prices, may be inflows, but the long-term around by the price must be determined by supply and demand. Besides, the short-term fluctuations in commodity prices, market this unseen hand under the spontaneous adjustment, the imbalance of the supply and demand is not difficult to brief problem solving. Of course, the domestic market situation is exception, because land by government monopoly, normal market regulation also ineffective. But Chinese herbal medicine production does not belong to this particular situation. So, the traditional Chinese prices don't need use administrative power to control.

    Someone asked, isn't relevant departments can allow partial Chinese medicine abnormally prices, sit back some patients who can't afford to live in poverty in traditional Chinese medicine? The author thought, can need not be worried about. First, Chinese herbal medicine is not nonrenewable resources, its production has certain seasonal, periodic capital, technology, etc, and have high barriers to entry. Once the Chinese herbal medicine market supply liquidity could not recover enough, by hoarding, hype about the price of long-term Chinese. Implement price controls on the Chinese will dampen the enthusiasm of Chinese farmers grow, to the detriment of its supply and demand balance recovery.

     Secondly, the traditional Chinese medicine in domestic medical market in the share of is not great. Most patients actually prefer to use the western medicine, they think, in some common diseases, western medicine treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, and got faster response slow, treatment cycle is long, the accumulation of expenses for medicine is higher. As for Chinese medicine side effects of small advantages is often ignored. So, today is often those economic conditions are good, high quality demand of health of patients are more likely to accept Chinese medicine, and this part of traditional Chinese medicine in the price is not that sensitive.

    Of course, in the face of part of traditional Chinese medicine prices rising fast, perverse, and relevant departments also shouldn't ignore everything don't do. The government should do is continue to increase the investment to public health, widen health coverage and improve public enjoy medical insurance treatment; Guide farmers grow herbs associated production and marketing association, composed for them in time to provide effective market information and provide them with small production loans, planting technology services. Only then, Chinese medicine market rises and falls in the medicinal part, inflows, patients can tether with drug abnormal phenomenon can totally eliminated.