Chinese medicine scientific plant extraction leads the innovation and development of health industry

A small grass changed the world. Chinese scientist Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of artemisinin, setting an example for plant extract research. The discovery of plant extraction of artemisinin is a microcosm of the development of plant extraction industry in China.

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The single chemical component of traditional Chinese medicine can not represent traditional Chinese medicine, it does not have the four gases and five tastes of traditional Chinese medicine, so it can not be multi-directional, multi-target, multi-path treatment. However, the effective parts of traditional Chinese medicine can replace the local taste function of traditional Chinese medicine, with an aspect of the original Chinese medicine, a direction of pharmacological efficacy, the local combination can replace the sexual taste function of the original Chinese medicine, and what ingredients to treat what disease, what content, what proportion and how to detect are justified, can be repeated, and the people of the world are easy to accept.

The effective site is a component, which is a group of compounds with similar structure and pharmacological direction. Such as flavonoids, saponins, alkaloids, organic acids.

The application of extracts of Chinese medicine as early as four or five thousand years ago our ancestors have begun, the decoction of Chinese medicine is the extract of Chinese medicine, and the pot of boiling medicine is equivalent to the extraction tank. A potion is an extract.

Through planting extraction, the effective parts of Chinese medicine are organized together according to the pharmacological direction, which is the compound of Chinese medicine extracts.

Traditional Chinese medicine extracts should be combined, the disease, the symptoms are clear, can not simply cold to heat to cool, according to the traditional classic prescription based on the direction of treatment, pathological requirements of comprehensive consideration to select extracts. For example, angelica, to estrogen action to choose volatile oil; For antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, choose organic acids; To replenish blood, choose polysaccharide; To cardiovascular and cerebrovascular effects, choose organic acid plus volatile oil; To improve the immune function, choose organic acid and polysaccharide; To be used in the prescription as a supplement and formulation, water extracts can be selected.

Plant extracts are the main export force of Chinese traditional medicine. Shaanxi's plant extract enterprises have reached more than 800, nearly 20,000 people engaged, the number of products reached more than 1,200, the country's largest.