Dissertation Characteristics and Advantages of Chinese Herbal Medicine

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1 Role of herbs

Anti-disease. For example, rhubarb, yellow dock, and datura leaf are able to inhibit bacteria; Panax quinquefolium and wild chrysanthemum have antiviral ability; neem bark, vervain, and bupleurum are able to kill insects.

Enhancement of immunity. Aquatic animals have a relatively perfect immune function, and herbs can play a regulatory role in it.

It can perfect the nutrition of feed and improve the feed conversion rate. Herbs themselves contain certain nutrients, such as crude protein, crude fat, vitamins, etc. Certain herbs also have the effect of enticing food, eliminating food and strengthening the stomach.

2 Characteristics of Chinese herbs

Wide resources, low cost. China's vast territory, rich resources of Chinese herbal medicine, easy to plant and easy to collect, and easy to use.

No drug residues in animals, no pollution. Herbal medicine is a natural substance, maintains the naturalness and biological activity of various components, and its components are easy to be absorbed and utilized, and those that can't be absorbed can be smoothly discharged from the body, and be decomposed by bacteria and other decomposers outside the body without polluting the water environment. The general chemical components will be accumulated in the animal body or long-term residue in the water.

The toxic side effects are small or none, and the animal body does not produce drug resistance. The toxicity of Chinese herbal medicine will be reduced or disappeared after proper concoction and processing; through the combination and matching, the interaction between the use of traditional Chinese medicines improves its efficacy in preventing and curing diseases, and weakens or reduces the toxic side effects. So far, medical research has never found that Chinese herbal medicine has the problem of drug resistance.

Herbal feed additives not only contain nutrients, but also has a tranquilizing and sedative, stomach and digestion, blood circulation, nourishing the essence of tonic, tend to insect health care and prevention and treatment of disease and other pharmacological effects; herbal immunity active substances can enhance the immune function of the organism, improve the animal's ability to resist stress, disease resistance, and improve the performance of the animal production, and has no residue, not easy to produce drug resistance, etc., is a major hotspot of the international research on animal nutrition in recent years. It is a hot spot of international animal nutrition research in recent years. Herbal medicine can solve the problem of antibiotic residues that have long plagued the development of animal husbandry, improve productivity, reduce the pollution of animal husbandry on the environment, develop green animal husbandry, and meet the people's food safety needs.

Advantages and Development Prospects of Herbal Medicine

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Keywords: history, role of herbal medicine, contribution of herbal medicine World Market

Abstract: China's vast territory, diverse and superior natural conditions, the distribution of a wealth of traditional medicinal resources, is the world's largest variety of natural medicinal resources, the longest history of cultivation of the country. And there are many local herbs famous in China and abroad, and exported to more than 100 countries and regions. Herbal medicine has the unique advantages of natural materials, smooth action, small toxic side effects and other Western medicines can not be compared, with the progress of society, the development of productive forces, people are more and more in pursuit of health and longevity, the modern people more and more attention from the chemical synthesis of drugs to the natural medicine, hope that from the natural medicine to develop a safer and more effective new drugs to replace the former, so as to reduce the occurrence of diseases of medicinal origin. Therefore, the development of Chinese herbal medicine not only inherits the essence of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, but also has a vast market prospect and economic benefits.

China has a long history of herbal medicine production. As early as in the prehistoric period, our ancestors began to apply Chinese herbs to prevent and treat diseases. When Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, he had built a garden in Chang'an and introduced safflower, pomegranate, garlic and other important plants. Sui dynasty "planting medicine law" more systematically summarized the experience of cultivation of traditional Chinese medicine. Tang and specializing in medicine garden division, management of medicine things, the Song Dynasty, "the history of the evidence class ready to emergency Materia Medica", *** contained 1892 kinds of drugs, promoting the development of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine business. Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" summarizes the knowledge of our people's medicines before the 16th century, and pushes Chinese medicine to a new height.

Herbal medicine resources are wide and low cost. China's vast territory, rich resources of Chinese herbal medicine, easy to grow and easy to collect, and easy to use. And Chinese herbal medicine itself has many characteristics: 1, no drug residues in the animal body, no public health. Herbal medicine is a natural substance, maintains the naturalness and biological activity of various ingredients, and its ingredients can be easily absorbed and utilized, and those that cannot be absorbed can be smoothly discharged from the body, and be decomposed by bacteria and so on outside the body without polluting the water environment. The general chemical components will be accumulated in the animal body or long-term residue in the water. 2, small or no toxic side effects, the animal body does not produce drug resistance. Poisonous herbs after appropriate processing, toxicity will be reduced or disappear; through the formula, the use of interactions between the Chinese medicine, to improve the efficacy of its prevention and treatment of disease, weakened or exempted from the toxic side effects. So far, medical research has never found that Chinese herbal medicine has the problem of drug resistance.

Herbal medicine has a significant medical role, it is thousands of years of classification, testing, refined out of the herbal formula to make people trust, and because it is a natural ingredient, so little, usually no side effects. Its targeted treatment plays a role in treating the root cause rather than the symptoms, and fundamentally restores the function of human organs, thus eliminating the symptoms. Also unlike many Western medicines, Chinese medicine has no chemical residue. Restore the body's natural immune system. It is a long-lasting result. According to the World Health Organization, 4 billion people around the world currently use herbal medicine to treat their illnesses, representing 80% of the world's total population. According to the organization's estimates, the development and utilization of Chinese herbal medicine will fully emerge in the world in the next 10 years.

It is because of the long-lasting tonicity of herbs, its beauty and health effects can not be ignored. Such as tea: herbal health tea is a traditional Chinese specialty beverage, but also one of the main dosage forms of medicinal tea therapy. 2,000 years ago, "Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica" has been tea as an important drug; legend says that Shennong's reward for the hundred herbs, the day meets seventy-two poisons, tea and solution; the Han Dynasty Zhang Zhongjing, Hua Tuo, and other great medical doctors also use tea to treat a variety of diseases; Tang and Song dynasties are more tea and tea is widely used in the prevention and treatment of headache, phlegm and heat, fatigue, thirst, urinary and fecal bleeding and other diseases, as well as tonifying the kidneys, waist, brightening eyes, firm muscles and long flesh, and also to prevent and control the use of tea. Bright eyes, firm muscle long meat health care products; to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, medicinal tea therapy, health tea prepared with Chinese herbs has a great development, about medicinal tea and health tea formulas, application scope, production methods, etc. have been constantly enriched and perfected, created a large number of effective medicinal tea, health tea, they have become the motherland's traditional medical treasure trove in a bright pearl, has a high therapeutic efficacy, easy to produce, easy to use, etc. characteristics, popular. They are highly effective, easy to make and convenient to use, and are very popular among people.

As for the cosmetic effect of certain herbs is loved by women. Angelica can expand the skin capillaries, accelerate blood circulation, rich in trace elements, can nourish the skin, prevent roughness. Can be used for acne, brown spots, freckles and hair loss. Wolfberry Can greatly replenish qi and blood, anti-aging, thus skin care and beauty. Yam, lotus seed, lily, red dates can strengthen the spleen and stomach, stop ejaculation and tranquilize the mind, so as to maintain moist and healthy skin. Sophora japonica and black soybean can nourish yin and clear heat, nourish the kidney and brighten the eyes, and darken the beard and hair. On this basis, herbal cosmetics have also become very popular. At present, cosmetics containing herbal ingredients have reached as many as 200 kinds in Japan. Cosmetics in European countries are fashionable for adding natural medicinal plant extracts. The modern type of herbal beauty cosmetics, refers to under the guidance of Chinese medicine theory, the roots, stems, flowers, leaves, fruits and seeds of Chinese herbs extracted from a variety of active ingredients, Chinese herbal formulas, its efficacy, the use of the feeling and the health of the product without chemical additives is more popular for the majority of consumers. Natural herbal beauty care products are typical modern herbal cosmetics with significant efficacy. It uses valuable Chinese herbs combined with modern advanced science and technology biotechnology, in the ancient Chinese medicine on the basis of the scientific ratio, according to Chinese medicine, "from the inside and the surface, focus on conditioning" principle, the use of internal and external methods, so as to achieve the acne, spot, whitening, wrinkle and other skin care in the role of the appearance.

Even the cultivation of herbs can play a role in improving the environment. Such as deserted mountains and wasteland planting herbs, according to the local conditions, help to restore the ecological virtuous cycle, create a beautiful natural environment, and promote the development of forestry and animal husbandry. Planting herbs in the city is a good way of intellectual pollution, but also an effective measure to expand the source of medicine. The courtyard planting medicine can beautify the living environment, improve the microclimate, and facilitate self-picking and self-use, disease prevention and treatment.

There is no doubt that the economic benefits of herbal medicine is amazing. Especially its international market. A survey in the United States showed that about 49% of the disease Western medicine can not be treated, about 20% of the people taking Western medicine due to toxic side effects and stop, there are a lot of Americans to switch to Chinese medicine. They believe that it is safe to take care of their health through Chinese medicine that uses natural plants as raw materials. Against this background, a worldwide craze for Chinese medicine has grown.

The worldwide market for herbal medicines is also growing rapidly. In recent years, botanical medicines have from time to time developed faster than chemical medicines in the European Union. Since 1987, the UK sales of botanicals have risen by 70%, France by 50%, while the US market is growing at 20% per year. The global market for herbal medicines is now known to be around $16 billion in annual sales and rising. About 1/3 of the people in the US are taking herbal medicine and *** acupuncture treatments, and up to $27 billion is spent on herbal medicine and acupuncture *** annually.

Cautiousness about TCM and herbal medicine in Europe and the United States is becoming relaxed, and in Asia, where the production and marketing of herbal medicine is the largest, the number of countries that have legalized TCM and herbal medicine is increasing. At present, traditional pharmaceuticals have been recognized as a sunrise industry by many countries, while international traditional medicines mainly refer to Chinese herbal medicines, whose annual sales have exceeded 15 billion US dollars and are still growing at a rate of 10 percent per year. A few years ago, Chinese medicine therapy cured the high incidence of skin eczema in the United Kingdom, shaking the British and European medical circles; today, the United Kingdom has eased the restrictions on the opening of Chinese medicine clinics, and many countries in Europe also allow the sale of crude extracts of Chinese herbs. The United States has always been rigorous attitude towards Chinese medicine has also slowly relaxed its restrictions, more and more Chinese medicine in the "health food" packaging on the shelves. In addition to Japan, South Korea, China, this year, Thailand has joined the Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine legalized countries and regions in the ranks.

It can be said that the advantages of Chinese herbal medicine is unique, is incomparable to Western medicine, and the economic benefits of Chinese herbal medicine and the international market is huge and broad, the prospects for the development of Chinese herbal medicine is bright.

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