Sudden price increase! There is a place where 1 capsule is sold for nearly 1200 yuan, and it is called "first aid miracle medicine"

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2024-06-13 12:02Posted on the official account of Beijing Beiqing.com

Red Star Capital Bureau, recently, Tong Ren Tang Chinese Medicine (03613. According to the official website of HK), the price of the Hong Kong version of one Angong Niuhuang Pill is 1,280 Hong Kong dollars (equivalent to about 1,189 yuan), and the price of six Angong Niuhuang Pills is 7,680 Hong Kong dollars (equivalent to about 7,133 yuan), and each capsule is 3 grams.

Sudden price increase! There is a place where 1 capsule is sold for nearly 1200 yuan, and it is called "first aid miracle medicine"

Previously, the price of one capsule of the Hong Kong version of Beijing Tong Ren Tang Angong Niuhuang Pill was 1,060 Hong Kong dollars (equivalent to about 985 yuan), which means that the price increase is more than 20%.

Today, Tong Ren Tang (600085. SH) The staff of the securities department responded that the Hong Kong version of Angong Niuhuang Pill is produced by Tong Ren Tang Sinopharm, a Hong Kong stock holding subsidiary of Tong Ren Tang, and is mainly sold to overseas customers, and Tong Ren Tang Chinese Medicine is also a consolidated company of an A-share listed company. The Hong Kong version of Angong Niuhuang Pill did raise the price.

Tong Ren Tang's 2023 annual report shows that Tong Ren Tang directly holds 33.62% of the equity of Tong Ren Tang Sinopharm. Tong Ren Tang's main business is to develop a distribution network overseas and manufacture and sell traditional Chinese medicine products.

In response to the reasons for the price increase, the above-mentioned staff said that on the one hand, it is related to the rise in raw materials, and on the other hand, it is related to the steady increase in downstream demand.

Tong Ren Tang: The price increase is a cost pressure The mainland has not yet received a notice of price increase

On June 12, the reporter called the secretary office of the board of directors of Tongrentang, and the other party said that the price increase of the Hong Kong version of 1 capsule of Angong Niuhuang Pill was mainly due to cost pressures such as rising raw material prices.

The reporter noticed that the main ingredients of the Hong Kong version of Angong Niuhuang Pill are natural bezoar, natural musk, pearl, Coptis chinensis and other precious medicinal materials.

As one of the main materials of Angong bezoar pills, the price of natural bezoar has risen sharply in recent years. According to the data of Kangmei Traditional Chinese Medicine Network, as of now, the latest price of natural bezoar is 1.65 million yuan/kg, compared with 1 million yuan/kg in the same period last year, an increase of 65%. The price of artificial bezoar began to rise in March this year, from 900 yuan/kg to 1,500 yuan/kg. According to the official website of the Shanghai Gold Exchange, on June 12, the morning price of Shanghai gold was 545.4 yuan for 1 gram of gold, and the price of 1 kilogram of gold was about 545,400 yuan. Based on this calculation, the price of natural bezoar far exceeds the price of gold.

According to the data of the two major Chinese herbal medicine information platforms, Chinese herbal medicine Tiandi Network and Kangmei Chinese Medicine Network, in January 2023, the price of natural bezoar stabilized at 200,000 yuan/kg-500,000 yuan/kg, and in November 2023, the price of natural bezoar soared to 1.4 million yuan/kg. Entering January 2024, the price of natural bezoar continued to rise, and the market price reached 1.4 million to 1.7 million yuan/kg, an increase of 70%-100% over the same period last year.

In addition to the price of natural bezoar, the price of natural musk, Coptis chinensis and other Chinese medicinal materials continued to remain high, which also promoted the price increase of Angong bezoar pills.

In order to ensure the supply of raw materials, according to Tong Ren Tang's 2023 annual report, the company will strengthen the construction of planting and breeding bases of planting and breeding subsidiaries, encourage the expansion of planting and breeding scale, and use information technology to build an intelligent management system for planting and breeding, so as to improve the economic benefits of planting and breeding.

It is worth noting that after the price increase of the Hong Kong version of Angong Niuhuang Pill, the price of each pill is equivalent to 1,189 yuan, which is already higher than the retail price of 860 yuan in the mainland. A person from the company's board secretary office told reporters that at present, the mainland version of Angong Niuhuang Pill has not received a price increase notice.

Angong Niuhuang Pill is known as the "first aid miracle medicine" in the market, and its function is to clear heat and detoxify, suppress convulsions and open the body, and can be used to treat fever, stroke coma, encephalitis, meningitis, toxic encephalopathy, cerebral hemorrhage, sepsis and other diseases.

The reporter inquired from the State Food and Drug Administration that up to now, 126 companies have been approved to produce Angong Niuhuang Pills, including Tongrentang, Guangyuyuan, Pien Tze Huang, Foci Pharmaceutical, Hutchison, Taiji Group, Harbin Pharmaceutical, Sanjiu, Jinyao Darentang and many other pharmaceutical companies.

Source: Chengdu Business Daily

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