What are the circulation characteristics of Chinese herbal medicines?

Chinese herbal medicines are agricultural and sideline products. First of all, it has strong regional and seasonal characteristics. Regionality shows that the production of medicinal materials is restricted by natural environmental conditions, such as ginseng in Jilin, Chuanxiong in Sichuan, licorice in Inner Mongolia, Panax notoginseng in Yunnan, Lycium barbarum in Ningxia, and the famous "Sihuai Medicinal Materials" and the famous "Zhejiang Eight Flavors" at home and abroad. These main producing areas are called authentic medicinal materials, so we must pay attention to the origin of medicinal materials when doing business. The seasonality of Chinese herbal medicine production means that the planting, growth cycle, picking and harvesting of Chinese herbal medicines are all completed in a specific season. Under the restriction of natural factors, there will be abundant and sorry in different years, which is reflected in the price fluctuation in the market. There are wild and cultivated medicinal resources, endangered animals and plants and poisonous medicinal materials.

Secondly, medicinal materials should generally be processed into decoction pieces or Chinese patent medicines for patients to take before use. Whether it is a prescription of traditional Chinese medicine or a prescription of patent medicine, it is generally a prescription of multi-herbs. The characteristics of this prescription and the regional characteristics of medicinal materials production provide a prerequisite for the circulation of medicinal materials in the whole country or economic regions and the establishment of a professional market for medicinal materials. At the same time, the demand users of medicinal materials are mainly Chinese patent medicine manufacturers, decoction pieces factories, Chinese medicine hospitals, medicinal materials distribution enterprises and professional distributors, and they have different management methods and means. In addition, due to the improvement of living standards and the development of science and technology, the demand for medicinal materials has developed from a single medical use to preventive health care, and extended to food, beverage, medicated diet, pigment, brewing, feed and other fields.

In order to promote the development of traditional Chinese medicine, the state encourages enterprises and individuals engaged in the production and marketing of traditional Chinese medicine to invest in the production and marketing of medicinal materials. Chinese herbal medicines, like other agricultural products, enter the market first, and the specific varieties and quantities of Chinese herbal medicines are determined by producers according to market conditions. At present, 10,000 mu * mu formed by many medicinal materials is an illegal unit of measurement, 1 mu ≈ 667m, 15 mu = 1 hectare, the same as in the whole book.

Medicinal material planting base. In the field of medicinal materials circulation, the situation of exclusive monopoly of medicinal materials companies at all levels in the planned economy period has long changed, forming a situation in which all kinds of medicinal materials production and operation enterprises, self-employed individuals and medicinal materials markets are divided into three parts.