Don't see good "color" when purchasing traditional Chinese Medicine

In recent years, due to the continuous reduction of the resources of traditional Chinese medicine, the price of traditional Chinese medicine has soared all the way In order to make the appearance of traditional Chinese medicine bright and beautiful, some lawbreakers use synthetic pigments to dye or adulterate it Common Chinese herbal medicines (decoction pieces) are illegally added with synthetic pigments such as sunset yellow, Sudan red, gold amine o, golden orange, 808 scarlet, etc When the intake of sunset yellow is light, it will cause allergies, diarrhea and other symptoms When the intake is too large and exceeds the liver load, it will accumulate in the human body, causing serious damage to the kidney and liver Gold amine o, gold orange, 808 scarlet and other synthetic pigments are made from benzene gum in coal tar and belong to azo compounds It can be broken down into two kinds of aromatic amines after entering the animal body, and then metabolized and transformed to interact with the target cells of the body to cause tumors and cancers Serious harm to human health At present, the price of safflower, Schisandra chinensis, Puhuang, cinnabar and Dracaena Draconis are more common in the market However, when the color of Chinese herbal medicines (pieces) is bright or abnormal, it is necessary to identify whether sunset yellow, Sudan red, gold amine o, gold orange, 808 scarlet and other colors are added, so as to avoid being deceived In this paper, we remind the vast number of drug distributors and consumers not to see good "color" and ignore the quality of drugs.