Chinese herbal medicine enterprises: self-discipline means self rescue in competition

Recently, China's import and export of traditional Chinese medicine has reached a new high, and the decline in the export of traditional Chinese medicine and decoction pieces has become narrower, while extract has become the main driving force for the export of traditional Chinese medicine At the same time, the import and export of traditional Chinese medicine has shrunk, with a continuous deficit Through a careful analysis of the import and export of traditional Chinese medicine, we can find that the pharmaceutical market is showing a high momentum of innovation, which also contains the warning risks for the enterprises with low technical threshold and access threshold Chinese herbal pieces (this is a broad sense, including Chinese herbal medicines that have been preliminarily processed) are the important material basis for traditional Chinese medicine, and even the most recent statistical data shows that the main extract to promote the export of traditional Chinese medicine, it should also be based on this, and the status of Chinese herbal pieces is not to be said Because it is the inherent huge cornerstone of the whole Chinese medicine industry after removing all the high-tech modernization factors, ignoring the quality of Chinese herbal pieces, the final result is to bring harm to the whole Chinese medicine industry Based on this, the state has issued many relevant policies For example, in order to ensure and supervise the quality of traditional Chinese medicine in policy, the state has implemented the standard for the quality management of traditional Chinese medicine production, which is often referred to as GAP certification However, it is difficult to achieve the overall standard on the implementation level, although the gap certification and construction of traditional Chinese medicine have made great progress In response to gap is the GMP certification of Chinese herbal pieces In 2003, the State Food and Drug Administration incorporated Chinese herbal pieces into the GMP certification, and required all Chinese Herbal Pieces production enterprises to carry out production under the conditions of GMP before January 1, 2008, or stop production It can be said that this is a compulsory policy to ensure the quality of Chinese Herbal Pieces industry However, according to relevant news reports, the current situation is not ideal The reason for this situation is that Chinese herbal pieces have their own particularity The first problem is that the entry threshold is too low Although the country is vigorously promoting gap and GMP certification, but due to many links such as the origin of Chinese herbal medicine, growth years, cultivation technology, gap control is very difficult, even GMP certification Therefore, it is a difficult problem to control the traditional Chinese medicine Apart from the differences in the processing and manufacturing technology of Chinese herbal pieces, it is not to say that in the purchase of Chinese herbal medicines, the drive of interests also makes the manufacturers tend to choose Chinese herbal medicines based on the quality, but more on the price, for the sake of economic interests, and even make concessions on the quality There are similar problems in the production of Chinese herbal pieces In the production of Chinese herbal pieces, it is necessary to save labor costs and reduce the seemingly "unnecessary" production links, such as reducing the number of steaming of some herbs, relying on experience to "fry to black" and "fry to yellow", etc., and there are few unified standards to solve these problems To a greater extent, it is necessary for pharmaceutical enterprises to self-discipline and self-discipline We must refrain from pursuing profits and give up investment Perhaps some people will think that, in the quality control of traditional Chinese medicine, is there still a fingerprint of traditional Chinese medicine? Indeed, the fingerprint of traditional Chinese medicine provides a quantitative and visual indicator for the quality control of traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese herbal pieces However, the fingerprint also has huge defects, although it is now rendered very beautiful Who said in the principles for the evaluation of botanical drugs: "if it is impossible to identify the effective ingredients, then identify one or several characteristic ingredients (such as chromatographic fingerprint) to ensure the consistency of the quality of the preparation and the product." Many experts and scholars regard it as "Holy Scripture", but if we look at it from another angle, isn't it just a kind of "palliative" method without any way? Because only "one or several characteristic components" rather than "effective components" are monitored, there is no specificity in the most important component of drugs - effective components Based on the above reasons, self-discipline is particularly necessary for Chinese herbal medicine enterprises with low technical threshold and access threshold Because the enterprise of decoction pieces is in the most critical middle link of the whole industrial chain: up, it can prevent the unqualified Chinese herbal medicines from entering the processing of decoction pieces; down, it can prevent the unqualified Chinese herbal medicines from entering the medical field Under the current situation of industry and quality control, Chinese herbal medicine enterprises not only take the role of building a solid foundation for the whole industry, but also take the important task of Chinese medical rejuvenation, which is not very prosperous at present - "great doctors have no good medicine, for example, if workers have nothing, what is the disease?" Based on the data of import and export of traditional Chinese medicine in recent years, the trend of export of traditional Chinese medicine is that the content of science and technology is higher and higher, such as the extract of traditional Chinese medicine, etc the enterprises of traditional Chinese medicine should control the production of decoction pieces well, which is beneficial to maintain the export market In the long run, we can work together with TCM to promote each other and achieve a win-win situation, so as to expand the domestic market demand and make it bigger in China.