What preparations and conditions do you need to apply for a Chinese medicine appraiser? What is the prospect of this industry? Can you help me solve it?

The quality appraisal of traditional Chinese medicine industry has its particularity. In addition to the final quality identification of products, it also emphasizes the quality identification of planting, collection and acquisition of Chinese herbal medicines. However, there is a big gap in supporting technicians, and the market is still in short supply of professionally trained production technicians, including Chinese herbal medicine appraisers. In view of the uniqueness of Chinese herbal medicine industry, the relevant state departments will launch a new vocational training-Chinese herbal medicine appraiser.

Definition of Chinese herbal medicine appraiser:

According to the shape, texture, smell, main components, safety indicators, etc. For Chinese herbal medicines or Chinese herbal pieces, traditional methods and modern scientific and technological means are used, and the technical requirements of China Pharmacopoeia, ministerial standards and local medicinal materials standards are combined to identify the authenticity, advantages and disadvantages of Chinese herbal medicines or Chinese herbal pieces by technicians; Personnel who process traditional Chinese medicine according to the requirements of the standard for processing traditional Chinese medicine; Personnel who store and maintain medicinal materials or decoction pieces according to technical requirements; Personnel who adjust the formula according to the specification requirements.

Background of Chinese medicine appraiser;

According to statistics, there are more than 2000 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine resources in China, including more than 2000 kinds of commonly used traditional Chinese medicine. There are many kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, and their names are complex and confusing. The usage habits of Chinese herbal medicines vary from place to place, and the confusion of the same name and different names of the same medicine is more common. In addition, in recent years, the annual output of Chinese herbal medicines in China is about 5 million tons, which is dozens of times higher than that at the beginning of reform and opening up. Due to the defects in interests and management, Chinese herbal medicines in the market are shoddy and shoddy, which often leads to counterfeit, defective and substitute Chinese herbal medicines, resulting in the unqualified rate of Chinese herbal medicines as high as 30%. The lack of identification technology of Chinese herbal medicines has become increasingly prominent, which has led to counterfeit and shoddy drugs everywhere, seriously affecting the health and life safety of the broad masses of the people, and also adversely affecting the image of relevant state regulatory authorities.

Because the traditional empirical identification method of Chinese herbal medicines (also known as character identification method) is a traditional and simple method to identify the intuitive characters of Chinese herbal medicines, including eyes, hands, nose, mouth, water and fire. However, with the changes of natural environment, regional climate and soil structure, and the influence of various conditions to varying degrees, some even lost the characteristics of Chinese herbal medicines.

To achieve correct identification, we must use modern scientific and technological means to ensure the quality of Chinese herbal medicines. At present, Chinese medicine education institutions of related majors can train talents in this field, but all of them are in comprehensive talents, lacking professional knowledge in identification and practical experience in in-depth professional teaching. Therefore, there is a contradiction between the prosperity of Chinese herbal medicine market and the serious lack of professional appraisers of Chinese herbal medicine, and it is inevitable that the fish are mixed with the pearls.

Secondly, save the dying traditional profession-pharmacy workers, and inherit and develop the traditional Chinese medicine identification methods. The pharmaceutical industry is a professional and highly technical profession, but in the past, this technology was generally passed down from generation to generation in the form of mentoring, forming certain rules and traditional standards. Pharmaceutical workers mainly purchase medicinal materials in the distribution center of medicinal materials, and process them into finished Chinese medicine products (decoction pieces and formulas) in pharmacies (front shops and backyard) for patients to take. In today's society, great changes have taken place in the mode of production and operation of Chinese medicine industry, and the social and economic system has also changed to a certain extent. The environment of the traditional profession of pharmaceutical industry has been destroyed, and the living space is getting narrower and narrower. Many traditional technologies and ideas have been lost because they have not been passed down. Especially since the process of marketization has increased, the Chinese herbal medicine industry has developed rapidly, and the demand for quality assurance of Chinese herbal medicines has also increased, and the demand for relevant professional and technical personnel has become stronger, which will call for the rebirth of Chinese herbal medicine appraisers.

Labor market situation:

At present, enterprises engaged in the processing, production and management of Chinese herbal medicines, except large and medium-sized pharmaceutical enterprises recognized by the US Food and Drug Administration, mostly rely on the traditional experience and understanding of drug dealers for production and management activities. The quality of Chinese herbal medicines in pharmacies, hospital pharmacies and other business places is directly proportional to the decline in the quality of Chinese herbal medicines. Due to the serious shortage of practitioners with good professional knowledge, they basically lack the ability to distinguish the authenticity of Chinese herbal medicines. If we can ensure that the authenticity of Chinese herbal medicines can be identified in grass-roots business activities, we can fundamentally and effectively put an end to the fraud of Chinese herbal medicines.

Training purpose:

In order to solve the problems of retraining in the standardization specialty of Chinese herbal medicine market and the vacancy of appraisers, we should train and learn the commonly used Chinese herbal medicines, inherit the traditional appraisal experience, learn the modern appraisal methods, master the basic theories, methods and skills of Chinese herbal medicine appraisal, lay a foundation for the authenticity identification, variety sorting, quality evaluation, development and application of Chinese herbal medicines, and ensure the safety and effectiveness of clinical medication.

The prospect of this major is closely related to the development of Chinese medicine industry. At present, the international voice of returning to and protecting traditional medicine is growing, the attention to traditional Chinese medicine and botanical medicine is generally enhanced, and the demand for green and healthy products is also expanding, which objectively creates a good atmosphere for the development of traditional Chinese medicine industry and the occupation of traditional Chinese medicine appraisers.