Rapid rise of natural medicine market demand for plant extracts will continue to grow

Plant extract is a kind of product formed by taking plants as raw materials, according to the needs of the use of the extracted final product, through the physical and chemical extraction and separation process, directional acquisition and concentration of one or more effective ingredients in plants without changing their effective structure Plant extract is an important part of biomedicine Plant extract is a new industry Although some European countries began to produce and apply plant extract in the early 19th century, it was still in its infancy, not in scale, not to mention forming an industry Until the early 1880s, there was a wave of "returning to nature" around the world People felt the negative effects of synthetic chemicals and then had a sense of security for pure natural Chinese herbal medicines, which made the development of plant extracts rapid and unstoppable Then Germany, Britain, the United States, Italy and other countries began to produce and use Chinese herbal extracts Chinese medicine health food In recent years, the market scale of plant extracts has greatly stimulated the development of the industry in the world, especially in developed countries and regions such as Europe and the United States According to the data of analysis report on production and marketing demand and investment forecast of plant extract industry issued by the authority of prospective industry research institute, the global plant extract sales reached US $10.14 billion in 2006 and US $33.32 billion in 2016, with an average annual market development rate of about 12.63% Growth of global plant extract Market Scale in 2006-2016 (unit: US $100 million,%) Note: this data is processed on the basis of regional market data Source: prospective industry research institute has sorted out the competition pattern of plant extracts At present, in many countries around the world, plant medicine has become a more popular drug for consumers, but the consumption of plant medicine varies greatly in different countries and regions Globally, natural drugs are mainly concentrated in Asia, Europe and the United States Freedonia group estimates that the market demand for natural drugs will grow at a rate of 13% per year Multi channel information shows that the increasing demand for natural drugs in western countries is an important factor to drive the rapid rise of natural drug market Comparison of global herbal medicine market scale (unit: US $100 million) data source: prospective industry research institute collates that under the background of growing global herbal medicine market scale, in 2016, the global plant extract market continued to rise, which has formed the situation of being one of the four strongest in the United States, Germany, Japan and France Germany's plant extract market has developed faster than the United States, accounting for 22.68% of the world's plant extract sales; the United States still maintains a larger advantage, accounting for 22.21% of the scale; Japan's plant extract Market Scale accounts for 19.75% of the world's total, about to break through 20%; France's share is 13.21% After rapid development in recent years, China has become more and more important in the world The market share of plant extracts has reached 7.16% Regional distribution of global plant extract Market in 2016 (unit:%) source: prospective industry research institute collates the development trend of plant extract 1 Among the new hot spots in the world drug market and R & D, 25% of the chemical drugs produced in the world are originally from plants, the most famous ones are aspirin, quinine, digitalis, vinblastine and taxol, etc At present, there are two trends in the research and development of botanical drugs: one is the research methods of ingredients represented by the United States (that is, the western medicine method, the single molecular structure drugs extracted from plants), and the other is the research methods of ingredients represented by Germany Compared with the component research method, this method is more convenient for commercial development, and more in line with the reality of China's botanical medicine industry Due to the mature development of European Phytomedicine market in terms of policies, regulations, technical level and consumer psychology, it is a convenient way for domestic enterprises to enter the international Phytomedicine market through the EU 2 As the demand of natural health care products will continue to grow in recent years, research has proved that a large number of "modern diseases" in modern society, such as coronary heart disease, cancer, hypertension, diabetes and so on, have a great relationship with people's daily diet It is recognized that some natural plant extracts can have the function of health care and even prevention and treatment of some diseases It is better to use natural health food to prevent diseases than to take medicine after diseases There is an increasing demand for phytochemicals in the world Consumer demand for organically grown herbs as raw materials is growing, and this trend will continue; there are more and more plant formula products with sufficient scientific evidence, which will help to close the gap between healthy food stores and the mass market.