TCM injections have been rectified investment to prevent "black swans"

08:27 January 15, 2016

Source: guangzhou daily

State administration of food drug safety requirements clearly in both traditional Chinese medicine injection adverse reactions

Guangzhou daily news (reporter TuDuan jade) "cash cow" stuffed blood clots, injection "two brothers" about human body harmful response! Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) injections to make money at the same time there is still a high risk. Our reporter learned from state food drug safety administration website that its released on the revision of blood tong injection and blood clots injection instruction of the announcement, the above two injections are required to clearly marked adverse reaction in the specification. Our reporter know that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) product is one of the main problem is most reviled adverse reaction column with "unknown" 2 words, as the national key rectify this field, investors should be alert to "black swans" mount.

Adverse reactions were often understatement

According to understand, blood clots, injections are annual sales of 1 billion yuan of large varieties of traditional Chinese medicine injection, frequently exposure, at the same time, adverse reactions and the high risk products.

Food administration of drug safety after released annual report adverse drug reaction monitoring, traditional Chinese medicine injection adverse reaction of most varieties, 2013 blood flux injection was sixth, its ranks in 2014 to the fourth; Thrombosis through injection in 2013 did not appear in the list, but in 2014 he was elected the sixth.

It is understood that in thrombosis of the drug specifications, have manufacturers labeled "it is not clear," also have factory as I have allergic reaction; Blood plug injection are similar, there are the manufacturer of the original drug instruction list only the occasional headache, dry throat, fever, flustered, rash allergic reactions such as ".

Now, the administration of drug safety clear requirements listed eight adverse reactions, including systemic damage, respiratory system, skin and its accessories damage, heart rate and cardiac arrhythmia, central and peripheral nervous system damage, damage the gastrointestinal system, cardiovascular system damage and blood in the urine, liver function is abnormal, and other damage.

Reporters learned that clinical for such TCM injections "should" attitude. A guangzhou local hospital emergency department has abandoned all TCM injections; There are many doctors enjoyed idiomatic, including stuffed blood clots, TCM injections. "In addition to a doctor's medication experience and habits, high-margin products also fueled the infiltration through the relevant departments." One industry source told our reporter.

Little impact on the sales performance

This modified manual impact on the market? To this, the personage inside course of study thinks, the adverse reaction may influence on the sales performance is not big, after all ChuFangQuan in the hands of the doctor, used to open may continue to prescribe medicine, don't like the open may be completely abandoned. "But a prompt Chinese medicine adverse reaction product is still a lot of progress, doctor-patient both of us can know more about the product specific risks."

Industry influence

Traditional Chinese medicine injection industry or shuffle

In fact, is not only a stuffed blood clots, injection was caught "typical", regulators on the whole field of TCM injections in consolidation. Recently, the drug safety administration issued "on the implementation of the supervision and administration of traditional Chinese medicine extraction and extracts the relevant provisions of the announcement, made clear that this year, whoever does not have the corresponding extraction ability of proprietary Chinese medicine production enterprises must stop production, and traditional Chinese medicine injection is belong to product of scale development fast. Last April the catalogue of national basic drugs management method ", and made it clear that according to the drug adverse drug reaction monitoring and evaluation to adjust the base directory, serious adverse reaction, the assessment should not be used as the national essential drugs; According to the pharmacoeconomics evaluation, can be risk benefit ratio and cost effective than better varieties replaced to adjust the base directory. This means that traditional Chinese medicine injection should not only be monitored, and exist because of the adverse reaction was removed from the risk of basic medicine catalogue.

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) industry analyst zhang expressed, part of traditional Chinese medicine injections, traditional Chinese medicinal materials containing a variety unidentified material is yet to be clear composition, proportion, existing standards for its safety. "If you can't through standard test to ensure the safety of drug efficacy, the two key elements, can lead to product market controversy has been existing." One industry source said.

Industry observers told our reporter, as countries increase the strength and frequency of TCM injections enterprises to examine, coupled with timely dense release adverse reactions to remind, can lead to the whole traditional Chinese medicine injection industry reshuffle, part of the lack of extraction ability of small and medium enterprises will be eliminated, and some varieties can also be in front of normalizing the cautious market "Waterloo".

At present there are A lot of a-shares have traditional Chinese medicine injection products, and even take it as A "cash cow" of traditional Chinese medicine enterprises, investors are paying attention to the performance, profits and the development of the individual stocks at the same time, also want to alert products fly out of the risk of "black swans".