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A Chinese medicine store on Qingping Road, Guangzhou, the staff said, "Atractylodes is now 120 yuan/catty, and last year it was only more than 30 yuan/catty, and the price has risen for a long time, don't buy it first, it's too expensive now." ”
The prices of commonly used Chinese medicinal materials are rising
The price of atractylodes has soared beyond gold
The reporter learned that after a round of large-scale price increases last year, since the beginning of this year, some varieties have started a new round of price increases.
According to data from the Chinese herbal medicine world, an information service media for the whole industry of traditional Chinese medicine, the price of atractylodes in Bozhou Pharmaceutical Market, Anhui Province, has begun to rise exponentially since January 2023, with an annual increase of 473.43%, and the price was 160 yuan per kilogram on April 25. In Hebei Anguo Pharmaceutical Market, the price trend is similar to that of Bozhou Pharmaceutical Market, with a price of 158 yuan per kilogram on April 25, an annual increase of 690%.
A trader at Anguo Pharmaceutical said that the price of atractylodes has continued to rise in recent years. The price of atractylodes was 17~20 yuan/kg in the past few years, and then it has been rising. In January 2024, it will be 70~80 yuan/kg, in March it will be 160~170 yuan/kg, and in April it will be 180~200 yuan/kg, which has doubled from the high point in 2023 and increased by about 10 times compared with three years ago.
The Chinese herbal medicine market in Bozhou, Anhui Province is the largest Chinese herbal medicine trading center in the country, with more than 2,800 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines traded here every day.
According to CCTV Finance, many buyers said that in recent times, the prices of many widely used bulk medicinal materials have risen.
Some buyers also said, "Atractylodes, Danpi and white peony, these things are still rising more sharply, Atractylodes was about 60 yuan per kilogram last year, and this year's selection is about 180 yuan per kilogram." ”
Atractylodes macrocephalus is a common Chinese herbal medicine, which has many medicinal functions such as tonifying the spleen and stomach, drying dampness and improving water, stopping perspiration and stabilizing the fetus.
"It's gone up so much that I don't dare to take the goods. A buyer from Bozhou Pharmaceutical Market also confirmed the fact that the price of medicinal materials has risen recently. Taking cat's claw grass, a niche medicinal material, for example, also soared from 95 yuan per kilogram in April last year to 800 yuan per kilogram, an increase of nearly 10 times.
A clerk at a pharmacy in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, told reporters that the price of many Chinese medicinal materials in the store has risen, and 100 grams of angelica used to cost only 40 yuan, but now 100 grams cost 70 yuan.
Coincidentally, the staff of another pharmacy 500 meters away said that since the second half of last year, the prices of Chinese medicinal materials such as Poria cocos, Huaishan, lotus seeds, Niu Dali, and five-fingered peach have increased.
"Compared with last year, the price of a pair of dampness medicine has more than doubled. The staff told reporters that taking Codonopsis as an example, last year's in-store purchase was 170 yuan per kilogram, and this year it rose to 300 yuan per kilogram.
As a result, the price of medicines has risen
Consumers look for alternatives
The fluctuation of the price of medicinal materials has had a wide impact on the entire TCM industry. The rising cost of medicinal materials has led to an increase in the price of medicines, which not only increases the financial burden on patients, but also puts pressure on the operating costs of medical institutions.
"The price increase of medicinal materials such as angelica, white peony, and atractylodes will also bring a certain economic burden to patients. A pharmacist from a tertiary traditional Chinese medicine hospital in Guangzhou told reporters that these medicinal materials are also commonly used by citizens to prescribe traditional Chinese medicine.
"Although the price of medicinal materials has risen, in terms of giving drugs to patients, there will be no reduction, and the price of each pair of drugs will be a little higher than before. A doctor Wu who has been practicing traditional Chinese medicine for 12 years told reporters, "Taking the spleen and stomach as an example, a pair of medicines used to be about 45 yuan, but now it costs 56 yuan, and some prescriptions involve a comprehensive price increase in the price of medicinal materials, and a pair even costs more than 70 yuan." ”
"However, some of last year's inventory will still be calculated according to last year's price. Dr Ng said that the current treatment strategy is to use lower-priced proprietary Chinese medicines and acupuncture treatment as much as possible after the patient's condition improves, so as to reduce the financial burden of the patient.
The rise in the price of Chinese herbal medicines has been transmitted to the terminal, the cost of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions has increased, and the cost of drugs for patients has also increased accordingly.
Ms. Wang, a citizen of Guangzhou, told reporters: "My parents rely on certain Chinese medicinal materials to regulate their bodies all year round, but recently they went to the pharmacy to get medicines and found that the price of these medicinal materials is much more expensive. Now I plan to take Chinese medicine while trying to find some alternatives, or reduce the dosage. ”
"I used to go to the pharmacy to grab Siwu soup, and a pair was only 8~9 yuan, but now a pair costs 22 yuan, which is more than twice as expensive. In an interview with reporters, Miss Zhang said that the price of traditional Chinese medicine soup that she drinks daily has risen sharply.
Behind the surge are tight supply and demand and other reasons
Behind the price increase of Chinese herbal medicines is the result of the joint catalysis of many factors, one of which is the contradiction between supply and demand of medicinal materials themselves.
Taking Atractylodes as an example, there is a shortage of supply on the supply side. Mr. Chen (pseudonym), a grower who has been growing Atractylodes macrocephalus in Baoding, Hebei Province for 21 years, said that in recent years, the main production areas of Atractylodes atractylodes in Anhui, Zhejiang and Zhengzhou, Henan Province, have been affected by disasters and reduced production, during which the price of Atractylodes atractylodes has been low, and growers are losing money. He mentioned that he lost more than 1.6 million yuan in planting Atractylodes in 2022, "Many growers can't bear it (don't plant anymore)." ”
"No one planted for a year, the market is still in stock, no one planted for three years, you can only consume inventory, the inventory is exhausted, and there is no new production, and the price goes up. ”
Mr. Chen said that in previous years, the total amount of Atractylodes macrocephalus in the Anguo medicinal materials market could reach 4,000~5,000 tons, but this year, the entire market added up to only 350 tons, which is only 1% of normal years.
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