Silymarin: market demand increases year by year

In the 30 years since 1972, silymarin has experienced ups and downs, first high price, then bad market, and finally fell to the bottom However, since 2006, silymarin has made a comeback, which has attracted the attention of many businesses In recent years, silymarin has once again attracted close attention of Chinese medicine market and pharmaceutical enterprises It is generally believed by senior people in the industry that silymarin is a "sunrise" variety, ready to develop, with business opportunities in the aftermarket and attractive market prospects [review] in 1972, China introduced silymarin from Germany and successfully planted it Later, it was planted on a large scale in Northeast, North China, northwest, Jiangsu, Beijing and other places At that time, the market demand was not large, the planting area of silymarin was small, and the output was less than 100 tons From 1990 to 1999, the development of silymarin production was slow, and its output only increased to about 300 tons in 10 years After 2000, China's pharmaceutical industry has sprung up with great efforts to carry out scientific and technological innovation activities Many pharmaceutical plants have developed new drugs, special drugs and Chinese patent medicines with water thistle, and the varieties have increased sharply from dozens to more than 200, such as: silymarin tablets, Yiganling tablets, silymarin lecithin complex hard capsules, Baoganning, feidang tablets, etc At the same time, many plant extract factories also use silymarin to extract silymarin, silybin and other drugs, and export a lot of them to earn foreign exchange The annual foreign exchange earning increased from 3 million dollars in 2004 to 10 million dollars in 2006, and is expected to increase to 15 million dollars this year The rise of silymarin has a chain reaction The pharmaceutical market needs a large number of silymarin, but the market gap is as high as about 3000 tons The price of silymarin rose to about 10 yuan from 2 yuan (kg price, the same below) in 1990 Faced with the high price, farmers in the producing area calculated a benefit account of silymarin planting: the net income of silymarin planting per mu can reach 1000-1500 yuan, which is 5 times of the income of soybean, corn and rice planting One stone arouses thousands of waves High profits and high efficiency greatly stimulate farmers' enthusiasm for planting As a result, the output rose in a straight line By 2002, the output rose to more than 10000 tons, more than 30 times higher Although the output doubled, it still could not meet the urgent demand of domestic and foreign markets for silymarin The supply gap continued to increase, and the price skyrocketed from 10 yuan to 30 yuan The high price once again stimulated the expansion As a result, "silymarin fever" was set off in the whole country from the north to the south The growing heat waves were rising one after another Not only the farmers in the production areas expanded, but also the farmers in the non production areas In large quantities In 2003, the planting area of the whole country has been expanded to about 1 million mu, with the output reaching over 100000 tons, 340 times of that in 1980, the highest in history However, the market is not bottomless, there is no permanent high price In 2004, the demand for silymarin in the pharmaceutical market suddenly dropped from boiling point to freezing point, the demand dropped more than 10 times, and the price plummeted from the peak of 30 yuan to the bottom of 5 yuan The sharp drop in price has led to a sharp reduction in planting efficiency, from 2000-3000 yuan per mu in the past to about 500 yuan, which is much lower than the income from planting soybeans, corn and wheat As a result, farmers in the production areas have abandoned their seeds, resulting in the total output sliding to the bottom of the valley, and showing a trend of year-on-year decline: the national silymarin output was about 100000 tons in 2003 and 10000 tons in 2004 In 2005, it dropped sharply to about 2000 tons, and in 2006-2007, it dropped again to about 1000-1200 tons This year, the expected output is only about 1000 tons, only 1% of the high-yield year, the lowest in history At the same time, the market has always been in a depressed state From 2004 to 2005, the market price dropped to about 5-6 yuan, and the higher price dropped by 5 times in 2003 [current situation] the market demand is increasing, and the market is rising slowly for 30 years in Hedong and Hexi The market economy is a "variable" economy, and the peak turns in 2006 The market demand for silymarin began to increase slowly, with a trend of increasing slowly year by year The market demand increased from about 2000 tons in 2005 to about 2500 tons in 2006, and then to about 3000-3500 tons in 2007-2008 The output increased by 500 tons every year, the planting area increased slowly, and the planting area also bloomed all over the country While the market demand is increasing year by year, the price is also rising slowly According to the survey on the price trend of 17 Chinese herbal medicine markets in 2005-2008, it was 5 yuan in 2004 (national average price, the same below), 6 yuan in 2005, 7 yuan in 2006, 8 yuan in 2007, 9 yuan in 2008, 1 yuan per year on average [prospect] the shortage has become a foregone conclusion The market survey shows that since 2006, many pharmaceutical factories and plant extraction factories in China have been selling all kinds of products with silymarin as the main raw material in the domestic and foreign markets The sales volume has increased, and the price has been rising steadily Some kinds of products, such as choleretic and liver protection, silymarin and silybin, have become popular in the market Therefore, the demand for silymarin will increase year by year from this year to 2009-2012 However, the planting area of silymarin in China has not increased at the same time, and the output is still in the low tide, which leads to the increase of supply gap year by year It is reported that the gap of silymarin is about 1300 tons in 2006, 2000-2500 tons in 2007-2008, and it is predicted that the gap will be about 3000 tons in 2009-2012, and the gap will increase to about 3500-4000 tons in 2011-2012 Market gap contains business opportunities The supply shortage of silymarin has become a foregone conclusion, which is difficult to alleviate in a short period of time However, the inventory of various places has been basically digested, and the subsequent weakness will lead to a sharp rise in the price Industry insiders predict that in 2009, it will break the 10 yuan mark, and it is expected to rise to 15 yuan in 2010 In 2012, it will be close to 20 yuan Small file silymarin, commonly known as pheasant, milk thistle, milk thistle, etc., is the whole grass and seed of silymarin It originated in Mediterranean countries, and was introduced from Germany in 1980s Silymarin is cold and bitter Seeds and whole grass can be used as medicine The whole grass contains flavonoids and fumaric acid, which are used for swelling and erysipelas; the seed can extract silymarin, which contains silymarin, isosilymarin, dehydrogenated silymarin, silymarin, silymarin polymer and cinnamic acid, myristic acid, palm, dilute acid, arachidic acid, etc silymarin has the functions of clearing away heat and detoxification, protecting liver and protecting liver and resisting X-ray For the treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatotoxicity, cholelithiasis and so on In recent years, scientists in China have found that silymarin can also reduce blood lipid, protect heart muscle, protect brain, expand blood vessels, resist radiation, antiplatelet and anti gastric ulcer Silymarin has high medicinal value and wide application range At present, hundreds of drugs have been developed with silymarin in China, and it has become one of the important commodities for export.