The quality of Chinese Herbal Pieces is worrying, with only 3% of herbs clearly defined

On the 10th, in the group discussion of the fifth meeting of the Eleventh People's Congress of Jiangsu Province, Zhang Qi, deputy of Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress and Changzhou City Hospital, provoked the proposal of “promoting the promotion of the construction of a credit system for the quality of Chinese herbal medicines”. The reporter’s concern. The motion mentions that the Chinese herbal medicines that clearly concocted the standards in the national standards account for only 2.7% of all medicinal materials. At the same time, due to multi-level standards, the quality of Chinese herbal medicines is worrying.

Chinese Herbal Medicine is a traditional Chinese medicine that can be directly used in the clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine after processed and processed according to traditional Chinese medicine theory and traditional Chinese medicine. Its relatively high safety, effectiveness, and relatively low price have been favored by many people.

However, the State Administration of Quality Supervision of the State Food and Drug Administration announced that the unqualified rate of TCM decoction pieces has been higher than that of western medicines and proprietary Chinese medicines. Of the cases detected by the Drug Administration, 48% involved Chinese Herbal Medicines. Some domestic experts had made an analysis. The proportion of unqualified Chinese Herbal Pieces related to origin factors was 31.57%, the harvest season accounted for 19.74%, the adulteration accounted for 26.33%, the reason for processing accounted for 13.15%, and storage conservation accounted for 9.21%. .

According to Zhang Qi, for a long time, the three levels of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, the National Code for the Preparation of Chinese Herbal Pieces, and the “Standards for the Preparation of Chinese Herbal Pieces by Various Provinces and Cities” have not been completely unified, and they lacked binding and authority. There are many methods for concocting the same medicinal materials, and there are no clear provisions on production, management, use, and inspection. The operability is not strong. For example, the processing technology of sphagnum-burning charcoal has different regulations for the heat; Beijing, Jiangxi, and other places stipulate that the use of wuhuo is brown and brown; and Hunan, Hubei and other places have no regulations on the heat, and Anhui stipulates that it is medium-fire. This obviously brings certain difficulties to the implementation of the standard.

Zhang Qi said that Chinese medicine is a national treasure of China. The Chinese Herbal Medicine Pieces, which have been handed down through the millennia, are playing an important role in disease prevention and treatment, pharmaceutical care, and so on. Moreover, coupled with lower prices, they should be more widely used. She suggested that we must speed up the construction of an effective dishonest credit system for TCM decoction pieces: TCM decoction pieces should be subject to a strict declaration system and included in credit rating evaluation and management.