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The identification site of Chinese herbal medicine and Chinese herbal pieces is located on the second floor of Zhejiang Bawei specialty market At 7:30 a.m., the staff was in place From time to time, the masses came to consult how to identify the medicinal materials and ask for relevant information In the early stage, the county food and Drug Administration collected more than 300 kinds of common Chinese medicine samples, including more than 50 kinds of fake ones There are more than 150 kinds of on-site exhibitions, including more than 30 kinds of typical fake products In addition to the price of common Yuanhu, Fritillaria, rhubarb and Baizhu, there are also the price of amber, mother of pearl, actinolite and Caulis Spatholobi According to the staff, the price identification of real and fake Yuanhu mainly depends on the navel of the price of Yuanhu, and the price of fake Yuanhu mostly selects the small fruits of yam; the price identification of Sichuan shellfish can see whether "holding the moon in your arms", because the price difference is large, some illegal vendors will take the price of small Zhejiang shellfish and flat shellfish as the price of Sichuan shellfish; the price identification of rhubarb depends on whether there are stars and big yellow prices The false products only cause abdominal pain and have no purgative function The reporter saw that the identification of Chinese herbal medicines was posted on the billboard on the spot: first, the surface of different kinds of herbal medicines will have different appearance characteristics due to different parts of the medicine; second, the color, through the observation of the exterior color of the herbal medicines, to distinguish the varieties, production places and quality of the herbal medicines; third, the cross-section of many herbal medicines has obvious characteristics, and these characteristics The sign is the direct reflection of the internal structure of the medicinal materials The fourth is the hand feeling The texture of different medicinal materials is different Even if the same medicinal materials are processed in different ways, there will be great differences The fifth is the taste and nose smell The smell of the medicinal materials is related to its ingredients Nose smell is an important identification method, especially for the identification of some medicinal materials with strong smell The sixth is water test and fire test Some medicinal materials will have special phenomena when they are placed in water or burned Li Jinrong, deputy director of the county food and drug administration, introduced that the bureau sent four staff members to be responsible for the authenticity identification work In addition to the introduction and answering questions, it also provided free on-site identification and other services.