Recently, some media reported the results of an unannounced investigation in Bozhou, known as the "capital of Chinese medicine in the world", which found that there were shoddy and fake Chinese medicinal materials sold online by many merchants, exposing the chaos of Chinese medicinal materials online shopping.

Using true only live as false angelica, claiming "super grade", "authentic", "wild" and "absolutely genuine", in fact, the residual amount of sulfur dioxide far exceeds the national standard; With platycodon as American ginseng, mulberry branch instead of astragalus, with potato head as yellow essence; 20 yuan a kilogram of dyed lentils as more than 800 yuan a kilogram of sour dates; Recovery of non-effective drug residues from pharmaceutical factories, drying, secondary processing and packaging into authentic medicinal materials for sale...

The e-commerce companies will buy a large number of shoddy and even fake medicines, stuffed into beautiful packaging, give a atmospheric name, and sell online to all over the country. The drugs that consumers buy are difficult to distinguish between true and false, and their efficacy is difficult to distinguish. At present, there are still many unscrupulous merchants still selling suspected fake and shoddy Chinese medicine, and the sales volume of an e-commerce platform is as high as 100,000 pieces. These actions not only violate the rights and interests of consumers, but also destroy the Bozhou "world capital of traditional Chinese medicine" brand.

At present, the problem of fake and inferior Chinese medicine is very prominent, which not only damages the reputation of Chinese medicine, but also causes certain economic losses. Therefore, it is particularly important to find out what is genuine, counterfeit, and confused goods.

The difference and standard of genuine and counterfeit goods

Genuine: Drugs contained in national drug standards are called genuine.
Counterfeits: Those that do not conform to the national drug standards are called counterfeits.
Inferior quality: does not conform to the national drug indicators, called inferior quality.
Confusing products: Those with the same name, similar appearance and confusion are called confusing products.
Quality: where and the national drug indicators, called quality products.

So, as consumers, how do we judge the authenticity of medicinal materials? Chinese medicine is expected to listen and cut, Chinese medicine has a look, smell, taste and listen to bubbles

See
To see is to observe the appearance characteristics of medicinal materials, such as skin, color, size, thickness, shape, thickness, cross section, etc. This is the most widely used method of drug identification. Ginseng, which was found in the materia medica records before the Qin and Han dynasties, got its name because its root shape was similar to the human form. The outer skin of the old stem is cork cork, light yellow to yellowish brown, with longitudinal tuberculate and deep longitudinal groove; The receptacle of the rose is spherical, the receptacle of the rose is cylindrical; Chinaberry seed, Chebula chebula is the best, white snake, Fritillaria fritillaria to small as good, Angelica, Codonopsis long and strong as the best; In addition, scutellaria, angelica, realgar, comfrey, red sand and other drugs, because they have a special color.

Touch
By feeling the texture of the medicinal material, such as how heavy, how firm, whether soft, how old tenderness, whether slippery and so on, in order to identify the authenticity of the medicinal material. For example, expensive medicinal materials such as seahorses and cordyceps may be increased by criminals by filling sand and adding wire, etc., and can be measured by hand to see whether the weight of medicinal materials is abnormal.

Smell
Smelling Chinese medicine is also a way to distinguish the authenticity of Chinese medicine from the fake, which may smell different. The medicinal wood fragrance and musk in Shennong's Herbal Classic are all named after their aroma. Tao Hongjing, a pharmacist of the Liang Dynasty, mentioned that Patrinia herb "smells like patrinia bean paste", which became a reliable basis for identifying the source of the drug. Others like hook kiss root aroma specific, long smell a sense of vertigo, five fingers peach with coconut aroma; Houttuynia has a unique fishy smell, while the fake Badong Crossing Road Yellow has no similar smell. Angelica smell fragrant, aromatic before Hu slightly oily, mint has a cool aroma and so on.

Taste
If you can't see it or smell it, then we can also taste it, because different herbs have different tastes. The legend of Shennong tasting herbs shows that oral taste is the oldest and most reliable way to identify drugs, and it can fine identify the unique smell of drugs. "Shennong Herbal Classics" collected licorice, sophora, schisandra (above are named for prominent taste), asarum (named for elongated and spicy roots) and other medicines, their names have summarized the most prominent taste of each medicine. Raw Job's tears after chewing slightly sweet, and a little sticky feeling, raw grass beads taste hard, no sweet, not sticky teeth.

Listen
Chinese medicine also has a unique sound, identification method is very simple, as long as the medicine gently shake, you can distinguish the true and false. If you shake the fat sea and the round sterculia, the round sterculia has a sound, the fat sea has no sound, and the sound is counterfeit.

Bubble
Soaking water can identify counterfeit products made of starch or dyed, such as "deer antler" made of starch glued to deer skin will naturally disperse once soaked. When looking at saffron, it can be soaked in water, saffron into the water, the water is yellow, no red, no precipitation, stigma (located at the top of the pistil) expanded into a trumpet, no oil like float. If the submerged capital is striped or filamentous, it may be made of golden needles; If doped with fine sand, starch, vegetable oil, etc., there will be precipitate, oil-like floating matter.

Common identification methods of traditional Chinese medicine

Wild jujube kernel

The jujube kernel is oblate or oblate, 5 ~ 9mm long, 5 ~ 7mm wide, and about 3mm thick. The surface is purple red or purple brown, smooth and glossy, and some have cracks; In some cases, both sides are rounded prominences; Some side is relatively flat, there is a raised longitudinal line in the middle, and the other side is slightly protruding. One end is concave, and a linear seed umbilical can be seen. A junction with a small protrusion at the other end. The seed coat is brittle, the endosperm is white, the cotyledon 2, light yellow, rich in oil. Faint gas, light taste. Sour jujube kernel nourishing the heart and liver, calm the heart, collect sweat, produce fluid. For deficiency vexation sleepless, palpitation and dream, body deficiency and excessive sweating, thirst injury. It is a commonly used Chinese medicine to treat insomnia.

The most prominent distinguishing feature of the genuine jujube kernel is that there is a raised longitudinal line in the middle of the flat side. As long as you check this rule, you will not buy fake drugs.
The common counterfeit of jujube kernel is that jujube kernel is the mature seed of the rhamnus family. Jujube kernel also has a certain calming effect, but it is different from the genuine sour jujube kernel, because the price of jujube kernel is cheap. The appearance characteristics are very similar, the market often rational jujube kernel as sour jujube kernel. The most prominent distinguishing feature of jujube kernel is the surface pattern.

Chinese angelica

Angelica sinensis is slightly cylindrical, with 3-5 branches in the lower part (the finished product after processing). The raw Angelica sinensis branches are usually larger than 5 and are 15-25cm long.
Root head 1.5-4cm in diameter, ringed, rounded upper end blunt, or with several prominent root marks, with purple or yellow-green stem and leaf sheath residues; The surface of the main root (homing) is uneven; Branch root (return tail) diameter 0.3-1cm, thick on the bottom thin, more twisted, there are a few root marks, flexible quality. The cross section is yellowish-white or yellowish-brown, the skin is thick, there are cracks and most brown dots secretory cavity, the wood is light, and the cambium ring is yellowish-brown. It has a rich aroma, and the taste is spicy, slightly bitter and slightly sweet.

When sliced, they are very similar in shape and can usually only be distinguished by the way they look and taste.
The outer epidermis is grayish brown or tan with wrinkles. The cut skin is grayish white to grayish brown, mostly scattered in brown oil spots, the wood is grayish yellow to yellowish brown, and the cambium ring is brown. It has a distinctive aroma. Taste bitter, hot, slightly numb tongue.

Fritillary bulb

Many pharmacies use thunberg fritillaria instead of Sichuan Fritillaria when dispensing Chinese medicine prescriptions. Thunberg fritillary 10 grams of a few yuan, 10 grams of Sichuan fritillary dozens of yuan, the price difference of more than ten times, and Thunberg fritillary heat moistening lung effect is far weaker than Sichuan Fritillary.
Fritillary fritillary origin in Sichuan, can clear heat and moisten lung, phlegm and cough, used for lung heat and dryness cough, dry cough with little sputum, Yin deficiency and cough, sputum with blood. Small, diameter 0.3 ~ 0.9 cm, the surface is white, the outer scale leaves 2 petals, the size of the disparity, the big flap holds the small flap, commonly known as "arms hold the moon", the top is closed, there are heart buds and small scale leaves 1 ~ 2.
Zhejiang fritillaria origin, also known as soil fritillaria, elephant shell, Zhejiang shell, elephant fritillaria, big fritillaria. Thunberg Fritillary function of clearing heat and clearing up, phlegm and cough, for phlegm fire cough, lung carbuncle, milk carbuncle, paramrosion, sore poison. Tall, straight length of 2 ~ 3.5 cm. Thunberg Fritillaria is a cultivated product, the yield is relatively large, the market varieties are relatively stable, and the shoddy varieties are few. Because of the small supply and good effect, the bulbs of the same family and a variety of plants are often used to fake the situation of Chuanbei.

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