Market is difficult to enter, cognition is difficult to mold traditional Chinese medicine to go to sea, standardization is "pass"

The market is difficult to enter, the cognition is difficult to mold the traditional Chinese medicine to go to sea, and the standardization is the "pass" At present, in the western mainstream medicine market, traditional Chinese medicine as a drug registration has not achieved zero breakthrough in the United States, and only a few can be successfully registered in the European Union In the United States, traditional Chinese medicine products are positioned as dietary supplements, while in Canada, Australia and other countries, traditional Chinese medicine is used as health food Traditional Chinese medicine is a unique medicine of traditional Chinese medicine, which has been collected and processed for thousands of years Since the reform and opening up, in the continuous inheritance, development and innovation of Chinese medicine, more and more countries have paid attention to and tried to apply Chinese medicine to prevent and treat diseases and strengthen the body Recently, it was reported that the high-quality traditional Chinese medicine formula granules provided by Chinese pharmaceutical enterprises had officially entered German pharmacies for the first time, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also sent a special letter to congratulate them At present, does traditional Chinese medicine have the basis of "going out"? What can we do to make traditional Chinese medicine appear in the pharmaceutical market of more countries? Recently, with these problems, the reporter of science and technology daily visited the relevant experts in the industry and the person in charge of traditional Chinese medicine production enterprises It is difficult for traditional Chinese medicine to enter the overseas registered drug market Li Shubai, Dean of the school of chemistry and chemical engineering of Changzhou Institute of engineering and technology, who has been engaged in Pharmaceutical Engineering Research for many years, said that since the early 1990s, through the research on commonly used Chinese herbal pieces and the pilot reform of dosage forms, China's traditional Chinese medicine has embarked on the road of convenient use, rapid absorption, accurate measurement, safe and clean, convenient carrying and no need to decoct It should be said that traditional Chinese medicine has the basis of "going out" Zou Qiang, deputy general manager of Jiangyin Tianjiang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd of Sinopharm group, told reporters that at present, the demand for traditional Chinese medicine in overseas market is very large For many years, China has been actively promoting the development of traditional Chinese medicine in foreign countries There are more than 500000 Chinese doctors and acupuncturists in the world There are nearly 40000 acupuncturists in the United States alone, and most of them are non Chinese Western medicine focuses on evidence, while traditional Chinese medicine focuses on the whole Nowadays, more and more people are interested in traditional Chinese medicine This is also a new opportunity for the development of traditional Chinese medicine and the acceleration of "going out" "Although China's traditional Chinese medicine has the foundation of" going global "and has made some achievements, at present, the largest market of Chinese patent medicine and traditional Chinese medicine is still in China Extract is exported as a primary product and processed in foreign countries." Zou said that most countries classify Chinese patent medicine and Chinese herbal pieces as dietary supplements or healthy food rather than medicine, and they mainly focus on traditional Chinese medicine halls and acupuncture rooms opened by some Chinese and international friends, which are provided to people who need to take them Industry insiders said that at present, in the mainstream Western pharmaceutical market, traditional Chinese medicine as a drug registration in the United States has not yet achieved zero breakthrough, and only a few can be successfully registered in the European Union Zou said that the United States is positioning traditional Chinese medicine products as dietary supplements, and Canada, Australia and other countries are as health food To register as a drug, the laws and regulations of the United States, the European Union and other countries are quite strict The reporter learned that in 2018, China's export of traditional Chinese medicine was about 3.9 billion US dollars, of which Chinese herbal extracts accounted for about 60% The sales volume of traditional Chinese medicine granules in overseas market is still very low For example, at present, more than 600 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine formula granules that Tianjiang pharmaceutical has put into production have covered the whole country, but the sales volume in more than 30 countries and regions in the world only accounts for 2% of the company's sales revenue Therefore, it is only a case that Chinese pharmaceutical companies provide high-quality Chinese herbal formula granules to enter German pharmacies It is still very difficult to promote traditional Chinese medicine in the overseas market as a whole Lack of scientific standards recognized by western countries, then, what restricts the Chinese medicine to go to sea? In the view of the insiders, although there are many reasons for restricting the Chinese traditional medicine to go to sea at present, the biggest problem affecting the development of the overseas market of Chinese traditional medicine as a whole is that the lack of a unified scientific standard that can be recognized by western countries is one of the key factors Traditional Chinese medicine has the characteristics of "slow work and fine work", which often has slow effect and needs to be taken frequently Western medicine pursues the immediate effect of "cure the disease when medicine arrives"; traditional Chinese medicine takes all kinds of natural herbs, which often needs to be taken by Decoction, most of which are chemical preparations, or injection or direct import; traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to "root removal", while western medicine pays more attention to "table solution" The two concepts are not in line with each other There is no breakthrough in invention patents in the field of traditional Chinese medicine in China, and the components and functions of traditional Chinese medicine are difficult to be scientifically defined as western medicine Therefore, the entry threshold of traditional Chinese medicine is very high in foreign countries In Zou's words, "traditional Chinese medicine, as a traditional Chinese medicine, is facing problems in terms of laws and regulations, concept recognition and other aspects in some different countries Therefore, despite thousands of years of history, it has not entered the western mainstream market." This is a real problem, but also a hurdle that traditional Chinese medicine has to cross In addition to the lack of unified scientific standards, the publicity and promotion of traditional Chinese medicine abroad is still insufficient, which is difficult to be accepted and convinced by foreign countries The real "going out" cannot simply change traditional Chinese medicine into natural medicine in the face of overseas obstacles How can traditional Chinese medicine be improved so that more foreign government agencies and foreigners can accept it? Leaders and experts of production enterprises generally believe that traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine are two completely different systems If traditional Chinese medicine wants to go out in a real sense, it can't be easily changed into natural medicine to enter the overseas market as some production enterprises do now As a production enterprise, we must start from ourselves, establish a set of perfect technical system and standards recognized by the international market, and let Chinese medicine enter the foreign market reasonably and legally The rise and development of natural medicine is that western medicine circles turn to the nature to find new ways of medicine according to the West's fear of the side effects of chemical synthetic drugs Through research, we can extract one or several kinds of medicinal ingredients from some animals and plants that contain special medicinal ingredients and make them into medicine for clinical use This is undoubtedly the contemporary pharmaceutical research One direction of development In fact, traditional Chinese medicine and natural medicine are not the same thing, they have both intersection and difference Natural medicine is a kind of medicine which is collected from nature and can be taken directly In the real sense, traditional Chinese medicine is processed pieces of various kinds, many of which are the materials of traditional Chinese medicine Therefore, natural medicine is not the same as traditional Chinese medicine, not only to catch up with the fashion, but also to force the connection with traditional Chinese medicine under the guise of "new things" The reporter learned that, in view of the common problems faced by Chinese traditional medicine at sea at present, Tianjiang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd is working with well-known universities and research institutions in China to jointly formulate the USP standards for Chinese traditional medicine formula granules and Chinese traditional medicine extracts, and cooperating with international standards organization to carry out product certification and enterprise certification "Our goal is to promote the re innovation of traditional Chinese medicine industry through this series of measures, so as to make the traditional Chinese medicine formula granules recognized by more countries and the international community, and truly let the domestic traditional Chinese medicine products go out legally and be used in clinical compliance." Zou said The industry insiders pointed out that for the international market, at present, enterprises alone are not enough The government should further strengthen policy support, and the industry production enterprises should form a consensus In particular, they should jointly participate in technological innovation and the formulation of international standards, as well as long-term and in-depth international academic exchange activities of Chinese medicine to popularize the knowledge of Chinese medicine, so as to make Chinese medicine culture bigger in the world Let it shine and contribute to human health.