How many plants can be used as medicinal plants in China

There are more than 5,000 kinds of medicinal plants in the collection, and more than 200 kinds have been cultivated.

After 1949, the resources of medicinal plants have been systematically investigated and researched, developed and utilized, and introduced for cultivation. A great deal of work has also been carried out in the determination, separation and extraction of constituents and pharmacological experiments.

On this basis, the compilation and publication of the "Chinese medicinal plants", "Chinese medicine", "Herbology", "Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine", "Compendium of Chinese herbs", "Chinese People's **** and the National Pharmacopoeia" and other medicinal monographs, contained more than 5000 kinds of medicinal plants, has been cultivated more than 200 kinds of.

By the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Pharmaceutical Research presided over the "low-latitude plateau natural drug resources field survey and research and development" project team through long-term investigation and research, found that the new medicinal plant resources 451 kinds.

The project team after nearly 40 years, traveled more than 800,000 kilometers of investigation and research, collection of specimens 11,082 kinds of 80,378, accurately identified 354 families and 1534 genera, 4,012 kinds of natural medicines, translation of the national language and text of the name of the medicine 5,567, collection of 5,816 head of the accompanying prescription, confirmed the drug base of the original 1,679 kinds of medicines, and found that the new medicinal plant resources 451 kinds of new distribution of 93 kinds of medicinal plants, the new medicinal plant resources 451 kinds. It also discovered 451 new medicinal plant resources, 93 new medicinal plants, and created 9 new drugs.

Expanded Information

Human beings have gone through the process of recognizing plants, harvesting plants, manufacturing functional plants and processing, and medicinal plants are stepping into the 4.0 era with the maturity of genomics, bio-big data, high-pathway gene function validation platforms, and biosynthetic technologies.

Because of the wide variety of medicinal plants, basic research is weak, especially in molecules, genes and biosynthesis of active ingredients are extremely lack of research basis, resulting in the international community of Chinese medicine dissent.

Guangxi is one of China's four major producing areas of Chinese medicinal herbs, **** there are more than 5,000 varieties of Chinese medicinal resources. As the world's largest medicinal botanical garden, Guangxi Medicinal Botanical Garden currently **** collects and preserves more than 5,600 varieties of living medicinal plants, including more than 100 kinds of rare and endangered medicinal plants, which can provide a strong guarantee of resources for scientific research.

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