The Qingming Dynasty has arrived, the Dragon Boat Festival has not arrived, on the pedestrian street of Nanjing Road, the Dragon Boat Sachets of Cai Tongde Hall have been lively - little golden bulls, little flower cows, little bull heads... The flowers are green and fragrant. "Sachets for the Year of the Ox, very cattle!" Yang Qing, a deputy to the Huangpu District People's Congress and general manager of Shanghai Cai Tongde Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., stood at the counter and said that Chinese medicine sachets were like a number of family treasures.
Pictured: Yang Qing holding this year's newly produced Year of the Ox sachet Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhou Xin / photo (the same below)
In fact, the Dragon Boat Sachet is also common, and what is unusual is that the Shanghai Municipal Regulations on Traditional Chinese Medicine are about to be implemented. After more than 30 years of doing Chinese medicine and witnessing local legislation, Yang Qing is more convinced than ever that ancient Chinese medicine has been "modernized" and more cattle!
Ancient Chinese medicine, why should it be modernized, how to modernize?
Twenty years ago, there was a prescription that touched Yang Qing very much. The several flavors of Chinese medicine in the general prescription are usually about 3 grams, but the prescription only prescribes a dose of 9 grams. Prescription Chinese medicine is the authority in the industry, has always been rigorous, there should be no mistake, but why prescribe such a large dose? It turns out that the orange raw Huainan is orange, the orange raw Huaibei is orange, this flavor of medicinal herbs, unethically, the dose is small and does not work at all!
Without good medicinal herbs, the old Chinese medicine skills must be discounted no matter how high they are. TCM cannot be destroyed on TCM! Since then, Yang Qing has iron heart, "Cai Tongde" to make authentic medicinal materials. After all, since Cai Tongdetang opened in 1882, he has won word of mouth by making conscience medicines.
Century-old brand, strict quality control, innovation and change, quality control must be modernized. In recent years, Cai Tongde has invested heavily in quality control, purchased equipment for inspection and monitoring of medicinal materials, and established a Traditional Chinese Medicine Tablet Company in Wujiang, Suzhou, specializing in the production and processing of traditional Chinese medicines, and authentic medicinal materials are gathered here from various places of origin in the country, and the production and circulation can be traced. Every day, tons of Chinese herbal medicine are transported from Wujiang to the Qunli Chinese Medicine Clinic. "In this way, Cai Tongde's Chinese herbal medicine 'storage' is always on the road, and the patients basically get it from the factory on the same day." Yang Qing said that the circulation is fast, the medicinal effect is good, and the modern production, storage and transportation make quality control guaranteed.
Pictured: Yang Qing, a deputy to the Huangpu District People's Congress
Cai Tongde's Qunli Herbal Medicine Store also pioneered the first single-flavor Chinese medicine quantitative small package, which has achieved accurate dosage specifications. On the one hand, pharmacies dispense drugs without temporarily grasping the weighing of drugs, which improves efficiency and facilitates computer management and sales. On the other hand, when decocting the medicine, the dose is accurate, and people's lives are at stake, and it is not okay to eat more and eat less. This quality control innovation won the second prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award.
The increasingly modern Chinese medicine must also go abroad. In 2019, cai tongdetang and Yueyang Hospital cooperated with the Chinese medicine outpatient department "China-Mauritius Traditional Chinese Medicine Center" landed in Mauritius, becoming a health messenger of the "Belt and Road". Cai Tongdetang also signed a cooperation agreement with the International College of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine on the International Education Clinical Base, which promoted the internationalization of Chinese medicine.
On the pedestrian street of Nanjing East Road, the only time-honored Chinese medicine store - Cai Tong De Tang, flying cornice bucket arch, Zhu lacquer golden tiles, antique, unique. Tourists from north to south walked by, curious, and looked closely. Yang Qing stood at the door of the store, watching people come and go endlessly, it is very emotional - a hundred years of "Cai Tongde" youth is still the same, near and far, ancient Chinese medicine trekked for a thousand years, modernized, more cattle!
Yao Liping, chief reporter of Xinmin Evening News