Using Chinese herbal medicine to reduce pollution of mariculture in China
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Last Update: 2002-03-05
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Introduction: as a major aquaculture country in the world, China is using Chinese herbal medicine instead of chemical drugs in the mariculture industry to reduce the pollution of the sea caused by the booming mariculture industry Since last year, a variety of self-made secret recipes of compound Chinese herbal medicines have been used in the mariculture seedling farm of Beihai City, Guangxi Province to disinfect the shrimp pond and mix the traditional Chinese medicine into the feed for feeding, effectively improving the disease resistance of prawn The output per mu of prawn is more than 500kg, more than five times that of traditional culture "The effectiveness of Chinese herbal medicine is that it regulates the immune function of aquatic animals At the same time, Chinese herbal medicine is a natural substance, which will not accumulate in animals or remain in water for a long time, "said Dr Zhang Luping, South China Sea Institute of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Sciences The application of Chinese herbal medicine in aquaculture has been recorded as early as in the Song Dynasty Su Dongpo's "the sense of things", the Yuan Dynasty "the anthology of mulberry" and the Ming Dynasty "the fish culture classic" With the development of modern science and technology, some pharmaceutical enterprises in China are taking the traditional theory of physical properties, taste and relationship between substances of Chinese herbal medicine as the leading role, supplemented by modern technology theory and production process to produce pure natural aquatic traditional Chinese medicine "In recent years, Chinese enterprises have developed and produced special aquatic traditional Chinese medicine, which is being valued and gradually used in coastal areas," said Dr Zhang Luping According to reports, at present, there are more than 400 kinds of diseases endangering aquatic animals, and Chinese researchers have found that there are more than 100 kinds of herbal medicines that can be used to manufacture natural aquatic traditional Chinese medicine, and they are still increasing In practice, though, it takes longer for Chinese herbal medicines to work compared with chemical drugs But experts believe that with the trend of advocating environmental protection and returning to nature sweeping the world, it will be more and more popular China is a big aquatic country in the world, and its annual output of prawn alone exceeds 200000 tons In the past, a large number of chemical drugs were used for various common fish diseases and shrimp diseases in the mariculture industry After these drugs were used, they were kept in the sea with sewage, which brought serious ecological problems Environmental experts warn that aquaculture is becoming a source of pollution in China's coastal waters In the 1970s, there were 1-2 times of red tide every year in the coastal waters of China, but in the 1990s it increased to more than 20 times every year, which has a great relationship with mariculture (author:) share to feed Weibo share to:
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