Traditional Chinese medicine quality declining buried survival crisis

Time: 2016-09-23

Content source: economic information daily

Reporter found recently in Chinese medicine research, medicinal herbs resources dwindling, declining quality of raw materials, trade vicious competition, the phenomenon such as JiaLie medicinal materials, wandered flooding the market. The personage inside course of study says, the Chinese medicine industry in our country is facing a huge crisis.

Medicine pulp are be made into proprietary Chinese medicine

"Chinese herbal medicine quality plummeted, a shadow of what they were." Jiangsu haichang pharmaceutical chairman said CAI BC, the problem of TCM injections quite a few out on raw materials. People know of the industry, and first-class medicine now exports, second-rate medicinal materials into the big hospital, those who are not qualified, inferior third-rate medicinal materials, and even medicine pulp are being made into a variety of proprietary Chinese medicine.

Marketing interests chain in gray, not medicine and hospitals collaborating with enterprises, makes the inferior raw material medicines in a hospital, and pharmacy low-price bid, cause the phenomenon of bad money drive out good. CAI BC said: "what are you doing in accordance with the standard, the cost will be high, the hospital does not accept, white slavery." Various new proprietary Chinese medicine, packed in all kinds of advertising, in the second quarter of 2015, the state food and drug regulatory agency of monitoring to 12 on proprietary Chinese medicine advertising content contains the effect of unscientific assertion, expanding propaganda cure rate and effective, and the use of academic organizations, experts, doctors, patients, such as name and image as evidence, mislead consumers seriously. Unfortunately, counterfeit drugs was reported, and change the name came out soon.

We have learned, at present, Chinese herbal medicine enterprise of GNP certificate is around 1500, most companies have production reap a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, suitable for the growth of medicinal materials across different, cause quality is uneven. In the third quarter of 2015 in hubei province and drug to sample 203 group found that do not conform to the prescribed standards of the drug, including 133 group of Chinese medicine yinpian, preparation of 13 medical institutions, proprietary Chinese medicine and chemical medicine of 57. The same year, the agency of Inner Mongolia in the circulation to sample, 35 batches all qualified chemical medicine; Chinese herbal medicine and yinpian 60 unqualified batch check out 10 batches.

"Never seen as poor as we are now, traditional Chinese medicine medicine treating patients' disease ', good medicine." The root of Chinese medicine family background GeZhuoMa opened clinic in a Chinese medicine school after graduation, she just do what you are good at acupuncture and massage, very few prescriptions. "I eat Chinese traditional medicine were selected medicinal materials in medicine market, yourself up." Root GeZhuoMa said that, in the past Chinese medicine if you need different planting, have curative effect should be examined through three generations, is now mass production, follow one's inclinations of origin, quality of medicinal materials of origin was plundered by eggs type.

31 old Chinese medicine expert in doubt

Curative effect is not good, coupled with a barrage of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine problem such as genetically modified (gm), the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) losing my faith.

De-cai tang, party secretary of basic medical college of nanjing, clinical professor of Chinese materia medica, the leader, doctoral supervisor, institute of Chinese medicine clinical member, deputy director of the Chinese materia medica. The engaged in the study of traditional Chinese medicine clinical and 31 years old experts told reporters that he had found a strange phenomenon: treating enteritis and diarrhea, with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for a day or two before, up to a week to have effect, now basically do not have what effect. Once, a patient took the pills, but became seriously ill. Testing found that several herbs are adverse drug with magnesium sulfate (low prices, weight gain; a preservative efficacy), but magnesium sulfate is the guide of discharge agent in western medicine, so not only efficacy, instead has side effects.

"I also started to distrust of Chinese traditional medicine, very chilling." De-cai tang said the distrust is derived from the following three facts:

More than one is planting link pollution. Extensive use of pesticides, fertilizers and pesticide residue in Chinese herbal medicine is expected to exceed bid are the biggest obstacle of Chinese medicinal materials exports, using Chinese herbal medicine production cycle to reduce chemical fertilizers, picking at any time. Medical materials market liberalisation, became the "agricultural and sideline products," not many people kind of medicine to guide farmers. Now medicine mainly by price regulation, which rose kind which, which approach is most fastest which one to use.

Second, acquisition, processing, processing and storage are anomie. Such as acquisition, ginseng at least five or six years, but in the traditional producing area of northeast, already see a flock of wild ginseng. Such as planting, emphasize the wild before, even grow to organic, give medicine fully growth cycle. Such as processing, the eldest brother man of the past, each blindly medicine is passed his elaborate, fleece-flower root wine to nine steam nine sun, now a lot of pharmaceutical factory is a steam drying, some even can't do this. After processing, for example, herbs collected, the most basic work is to remove sediment and mixed content. Medicinal plants on the market at present, however, wormwood, dandelion, dodder contained mud weight almost accounted for more than 20%. Dan scraped skin don't smoke, radix paeoniae alba don't go to the old root, radix isatidis don't go to the root head, peach kernel, almond peeling, zizyphus jujube kernel contains a large number of shells, dwarf lilyturf, lotus seed, don't go to the heart. Cut slices method is different, have different effects. Radix isatidis extract of wafer reducing sugar content is significantly higher than the diagonal slice, thick slices. But now it may fear cut hand, optional change the tablets thin slabs, thick slices to block.

Third, the weak regulation. The quality of medicinal materials itself is very poor, and so many medicine enterprises and do their best to cut corners, they spent kung fu to "face project". To let yinpian good-looking color, for example, extend the shelf life, and can let the mildew herbs look brand-new, take "stroke". The cultivation of Chinese traditional medicine and the regulation of the production and marketing chain, are in different department, due to the lack of strict supervision, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) starting from the source of problems.

Save the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is national action

As the birthplace of Chinese herbal medicine, traditional Chinese share around the world, China accounts for only 5%, other centers in Japan, Korea, southeast Asia and Taiwan and other countries and regions. "That's right for TCM modernization, just the way we going in the wrong." Traditional Chinese medicine research experts ji-lin zhang the personage inside course of study, called for saving traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is national action.

One is to intensify the building of high-quality medicinal material base as soon as possible. According to regional characteristics, adjust measures to local conditions, to support a batch of Chinese herbal medicine planting zone. Some areas have begun to attaches great importance to the Chinese herbal medicine industry development, such as at present in guizhou province medicinal materials planting area of 3.7529 million mu, among the top. Chinese traditional medicine the radiating and driving farmers planted 2.14 million, per capita income 1000 yuan. Had five medicinal materials in guizhou GAP bases through certification, the national ranking fourth. Cultivation of medicinal species from development to more than 100, more than 40 caulis dendrobii, white, and, pseudostellaria root, pinellia, uncaria, gastrodia elata, atractylodes, poria cocos, such as more than 30 kinds of varieties of Chinese herbal medicine has become the leading development of guizhou.

The second is to attach importance to basic research and personnel training. For Chinese traditional medicine resources and classical literature inheritance and protection of mining work, there is no systematic arrangement deployment, now some characteristic of old doctor of traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment technology, the method is endangered. In Inner Mongolia university for nationalities Mongolian medicine college of pharmacy, dean of the horsepower, a point of view, the factors which restrict the development of the national medicine, including traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and mainly lies in the lack of innovation and innovation. From talent, the real master of national physician almost ceased to exist, and researchers are few and far between.

Third, strengthen supervision, to expel inferior medicine. Jiangsu haichang pharmaceutical chairman CAI BC think, as long as the country determined to strike hard JiaLie medicinal materials, must be able to change the status quo. Strict control of traditional Chinese medicine varieties, origin, medicinal part, growth period, processing methods, etc. At the same time, support the conscience of some big drug firms do bigger and stronger.