Where is the largest market for medicinal materials in China?

Anhui Bozhou Chinese herbal medicine trading center.

Due to historical culture, geographical environment, social development level and other reasons, there are great differences in the degree of development and utilization of Chinese medicine resources in different regions, forming three parts with different connotations, which are relatively independent and interrelated, namely Chinese medicine, folk medicine and ethnic medicine.

The development and effective utilization of these precious resources has a long history, and it is also the material basis for the development of Chinese medicine. For thousands of years, it has played an important role in protecting people's health and national reproduction as the main weapon for disease prevention and treatment.

Among these drugs, plant medicinal materials account for the majority and are also commonly used, so ancient medicine is called "materia medica".

Chinese herbal medicine

General Chinese medicinal materials pay attention to authentic medicinal materials, which refer to medicinal materials produced under specific natural conditions and ecological environment. Due to centralized production, cultivation techniques and harvesting and processing are also highly valued, which leads to better quality and better curative effect than similar medicinal materials produced in other regions.

Folk medicine

Also known as materia medica, it refers to the natural drugs used in the region and not recorded in materia medica. Generally, plants are dominant.

national medicine

Refers to the natural drugs used in minority areas or recorded in minority medical literature.