There are many comments like this on the Internet today, which in turn question their own thousand-year cultural heritage.
Why are the Japanese making a lot of money all over the world with traditional Chinese medicine formulas?
It can be said that the Japanese are now making a lot of money all over the world with traditional Chinese medicine formulas. What is going on?
Traditional Chinese medicine was born in primitive society. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a basic theoretical system has been formed. After continuous improvement and development through the past dynasties, it has been known to us as the "Huangdi Neijing", "Shen Nong's Materia Medica", "Compendium of Materia Medica", etc. These are all familiar Chinese medicine classics.
But Japan, which also belongs to the Chinese cultural circle, has been influenced by China since ancient times. However, it was only in the 1970s that the Japanese truly mastered the patents of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions. They shifted the focus of their entire research to various historical ancient books. Regarding the research on traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions recorded in it, at the same time, they also promoted the commercialization of traditional Chinese medicine and began to rush to register patents internationally. This led to the fact that Japan, as I mentioned above, holds 70% of the patents in traditional Chinese medicine, while we, the real birthplace of traditional Chinese medicine, only have 3%.
The secret recipe of traditional Chinese medicine is lost in large quantities and has become a cash cow for foreign companies.
The "2014 Drug Review Report" released by the Drug Evaluation Center of the State Food and Drug Administration pointed out that in 2014, only 11 of the 149 new drugs approved for marketing, accounting for 7.38%, showed a serious downward trend compared with 12.7% in 2013.
In the world pharmaceutical market, traditional Chinese medicine produced in China has no place. According to data from Japan's Yamato Research Institute, in the overseas traditional Chinese medicine market, China has patent rights for only 0.3%, while Japan and South Korea account for more than 70%. The overseas traditional Chinese medicine market is nearly US$30 billion, of which traditional Chinese medicine made in China accounts for less than 5%.
Why did the country suddenly establish a Traditional Chinese Medicine Committee?
There is harm only when there is comparison. Not long after the new coronavirus was discovered, there was a group of Chinese and Western medicine for treatment. When the comparative data of the experimental results came out, everyone was surprised.
The number of people treated by Chinese and Western medicine groups is 320 people treated by Chinese medicine and 320 people treated by Western medicine.
Among them, 0 patients died from traditional Chinese medicine, accounting for 0%. The number of deaths from Western medicine was 113, accounting for 35.3%.
Such results led to many Western medicine patients going to traditional Chinese medicine for treatment.
