People commentary: the traditional Chinese medicine as a grass Mo

Wang Junping
December 2016 09, 08:05
Source: People's Network - People's daily

Ensure high quality and good price, so that people eat safe and secure medicine, but also need to give support to the government from industrial policy to accelerate the reform of the supply side of the traditional Chinese medicine industry
December 6th, China's first published "China's traditional Chinese medicine" white paper on the development of traditional Chinese medicine. At a news conference, the price of Chinese herbal medicines has become the focus of attention.
As the conference said, "the rising prices of Chinese herbal medicines is an objective fact." Chinese herbal medicines price index, 37 origin price of about 200 yuan this year / kg, up to 400 yuan / kg, or up to 100%; from 53 yuan / kg rose to 140 yuan / kg, up 164%.
To some extent, Chinese herbal medicine prices, not only is the relationship between supply and demand caused the "disaster", but also to the compensatory past price virtual low prices. Since 2013, the price of Chinese herbal medicines has been in a state of depression. As a kind of special agricultural products, the prices of the environment, Chinese rose is a normal market adjustment. But can not be ignored is irrational prices, especially the price change radically. One is the "medicine you bitter medicine, Yaonong base hurt farmers, not kind; side is the" medicine you life ", ridiculously expensive, patients can not afford to eat.
In recent years, Chinese herbal medicine prices staged a roller coaster market, exposed the lack of price regulation. Although the Chinese herbal medicine is used as a "crop", but not as a crop tube. In particular, circulation, in agriculture, food and drug administration, price three regardless of the zone, the lack of effective supervision of the functional departments. Many middlemen from the hands of low-cost acquisition of Yaonong, when the market is tight, hoarding and profiteering, and then sell at high prices, driving up prices hurt the interests of the farmer to reap profits from, and aggravate the burden of the patients, also dug health care foundation.
So the price chaos, urgent need to establish a reasonable pricing mechanism of Chinese herbal medicine. People often say: "good medicine, medicine is good." But the current evaluation criteria only effective component is to cite, which can only evaluate the authenticity, but can not judge the pros and cons, easy to lead to bad money to drive out good money". Traditional Chinese medicine, the same species, the same species, growing in different places, different climate environment, the effect may be completely different. With "eight Zhes" in ophiopogonjaponicus as an example, a three years of mining, low yield, high cost, good curative effect, but the market does not buy it, as in other places in poor effect of low price of Ophiopogon japonicus sell, Zhejiang is the result of planting Yaonong less. Adhere to quality first, reasonable price, genuine cultivation, the formation mechanism of Chinese herbal medicine prices return to high quality road. At the same time, to promote the construction of national traditional Chinese medicine information platform, to avoid the "medicine is more grass" national medicine blindly.
Traditional Chinese medicine is simple, convenient, effective and cheap for. A lot of people still regard the traditional Chinese medicine as a grass, that should not sell so expensive. In fact, the protection and development of Chinese herbal medicine is still facing severe challenges. Due to the reduction of land resources, the deterioration of the ecological environment, some of the wild Chinese herbal medicine resources drain, dry up, the shortage of Chinese herbal medicine supply problems have become increasingly prominent. The shortage of endangered medicinal resources, cheap herbal extract is an important reason. China Medical and health products import and Export Chamber of Commerce statistics show that from 2012 onwards, the export volume of plant extracts to maintain more than 20% growth. 2015 extract exports 2 billion 163 million U.S. dollars, the plant extract has more than half of the amount of Chinese exports of traditional Chinese medicine.
Chinese herbal medicine may be destroyed, this is not alarmist. Put the medicine sale into grass practices, pay the heavy cost of environmental destruction and extinction. Is included in the list of rare and endangered plant protection in China has reached 168 kinds of medicinal plants. If things go on like this, the development of Chinese medicine may fall into "no cure" impasse. Chinese herbal medicine protection and development planning (2015 - 2020), the Chinese herbal medicine is the cause of traditional Chinese medicine heritage and development of the material foundation, is the relationship between the strategic resources of the national economy and the people's livelihood. Resources protection of Chinese herbal medicines, can no longer go down the added value, high consumption of the old road.
At present, the development of traditional Chinese medicine to usher in a historic opportunity to develop. Chinese herbal medicine prices return to reason, to ensure high quality and good price, so that people eat safe and secure medicine, but also need to give support to the government from industrial policy to speed up the supply side of the reform of traditional Chinese medicine industry. Adhere to the development of protection, to protect the development, relying on scientific and technological support, in order to achieve rapid development of traditional Chinese medicine industry.
"People's Daily" (09 December 2016 05 Edition)