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Article: Environmental change affecting Chinese herbal medicine resources.
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- China Business News
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- July 6, 2006
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Environmental change affecting Chinese herbal medicine resources
Shanghai. July 6. INTERFAX-CHINA - Supplies of raw materials for Chinese herbal medicine are under environmental threat, a new report says.
Experts in Hubei TCM University undertaking a TCM Modernization Exemplary Research, say that the annual demand for China's herbal medicines is about 60 mln kg, increasing at the annual rate of 10%.
But herbal medicine resources are declining, according to Liu Yanwen, lead researcher of the report.
Licorice is a medicine which is in high demand in the market, and there were about 2 mln tons of the resource in 1950s in China, but there ...