Price trend of natural bezoar over the years

According to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 3 1 Sunday (Reporter Zhang Xiaosong), natural bezoar resources in China have been increasingly scarce for a long time, and fake and shoddy bezoar are common in the market. Experts pointed out that this not only endangers people's health and drug safety, but also restricts the healthy development of Chinese medicine industry.

Calculus Bovis is a traditional and precious Chinese herbal medicine. At present, about 650 kinds of 4500 kinds of Chinese patent medicines contain bezoar, and the annual demand for bezoar is about 200 tons. China produces less than 1 ton of natural bezoar every year. China used to spend nearly $65.438 billion a year importing natural bezoar. However, in 2002, in order to prevent mad cow disease from being introduced into China through drugs, the state decided to ban the import of bovine-derived materials to prepare Chinese patent medicines, and natural bezoar resources became even scarcer.

Things are scarce, and the price of natural bezoar has been rising in recent years. 1975 The price per gram of natural bezoar in the domestic market was about 80 yuan, 1986 reached 130 yuan, and reached 200 yuan in 2000. Now it has been sold to 230 yuan, which is twice the price of gold.