On the second day, Yang Jibin went to the wholesale market of medicinal materials with great interest.

The wholesale market of medicinal herbs in Suizhou City is truly second to none in its scale among several nearby counties and cities. In the early morning, the whole market is already full of people, bustling, full of people, it seems that the business is not bad, there are fixed stalls, storefronts to operate, and there are some mobile vendors like setting up stalls, directly putting medicinal herbs on the ground.

After Yang Jibin and Xu Xuenan walked around with great interest for a while, Yang Jibin found a big problem.

"How is it possible, there are fake medicines in the medicinal herb market." Yang Jibin was very surprised, these medicines, they are all for treating people, selling fake drugs is a hurtful thing, and it is going to kill people at a critical moment, so blatantly put fake drugs out to sell?

"How is it possible, could it be that I read it wrong?" Yang Jibin was shocked in his heart, and then approached a stall, selling medicine by an old man dressed as a medicine farmer, who seemed to be loyal.

"Uncle, may I ask what kind of medicine is this?" Yang Jibin asked.

"Angelica!" When the old man saw that there was business coming to him, he hurriedly introduced, "This is a pure natural wild angelica, the medicinal effect is good, it has the effects of blood tonic, blood activation, menstrual regulation and pain relief, moisturizing and smoothing the intestines." ”

"What about this?"

"Wild ginseng! The young man has a good eye, and this wild ginseng is even more rare,......" The medicine farmer began to talk nonsense again without a red face and a heartbeat.

"What about this?" Yang Jibin picked up a strange-looking medicinal herb again.

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"That's He Shou Wu, it's also a good medicine. Young man, I've been asking for a long time, do you want to buy it, if you don't buy it, go away, don't get in the way of my business. The medicine farmer introduced it, and Yang Jibin didn't come for a long time to ask the price or something. I felt that this young man didn't come to buy it sincerely, so I was a little unhappy.

Yang Jibin pulled Xu Xuenan and walked away with a sneer, he really didn't expect that the market for medicinal materials was really deep, and all the more expensive medicinal materials were fake. With a cold look, there were dozens of snakeskin bags behind this medicine farmer. Thinking about what he said again, it is obvious that this old man is a veteran, and it is not a matter of a day or two to do this.

Yang Jibin then went to a few fixed stalls to inquire, and sure enough, almost all the medicinal materials sold were half-truths and half-fakes, especially the precious medicinal materials were difficult to see the real thing.

"These people sell counterfeit medicines!" Yang Jibin scolded in his heart, these people are too lacking in morality, and now they finally understand why traditional Chinese medicine is declining and there are groups of fake medicines. If you can't cure the disease, you will harm others. If Chinese medicine does not have good medicinal materials, how can it catch medicine according to the disease and get rid of the disease? Why is there no one to take care of this?

Subsequently, Yang Jibin came to Wang Zhiyi's Jishi Medicine Store.

"Brother, why do you have time to come today, come, come in and have a glass of water!" It happened that Wang Zhiyi, who was drinking tea at the door of the store on the first floor, saw Yang Jibin coming. hurriedly greeted, and at the same time felt a little strange in his heart. If it weren't for his father rushing to send fragrant wood pillows to Fucheng's grandmother, he would have returned to Hongcheng County.

"Brother Wang, take advantage of the early time today, come and go shopping, and I'm going back to Hongcheng in the afternoon. I don't know if my family will open a pharmaceutical factory in the future, so I take this opportunity to understand the market in advance. ”

"Oh. When will my brother's family open a pharmaceutical factory, don't forget to take care of my brother, and promise to provide you with good medicine at a low price! In business, Wang Zhiyi did not miss any opportunity to make money.

"Naturally, there is no problem with this. That's right, Brother Wang. I don't know anything about this wholesale market, so please give me some advice! Yang Jibin said sincerely.

"Brother, if you have something to ask, I will definitely know everything and say everything."

"Brother Wang, here's the thing." Yang Jibin told him about the counterfeit drugs he found on the market today, hoping to know something from Wang Zhiyi.

"Brother, it turns out that you are entangled in this matter, this matter is a long story, come, come into the house and talk, I will tell you slowly." After Wang Zhiyi introduced Yang Jibin and Xu Xuenan into the office, he closed the door, made two cups of tea, and then began to explain carefully to Yang Jibin.

Yang Jibin and Xu Xuenan, who were on the side, became more and more shocked the more they listened, they didn't expect that there were such unspoken rules here!

From Wang Zhiyi's mouth, Yang Jibin understood the unspoken rules of the entire pharmaceutical industry, and before he experienced it himself, Yang Jibin couldn't believe it, but he didn't expect that this was counterfeiting all the time from medicinal materials, to decoction pieces, to finished medicines.

"The most common counterfeiting of traditional Chinese medicine is to replace the real medicine with some cheap medicinal materials or other items, or to create counterfeit drugs that are almost indistinguishable from the medicinal materials in appearance by some means. The more valuable Chinese medicinal materials such as gastrodia can be replaced by mochi or potatoes; Wrap antler powder, pig blood meal, egg whites and other substances with rat skin, sheepskin, deer skin, etc. Ginseng, in particular, can be directly replaced by using radish coloring, and anything similar in appearance to some Chinese medicinal materials can be used to make fake medicines. Wang Zhiyi said.

"But our Wang family is a time-honored medicine store, and there is absolutely no counterfeiting, and we never sell fake medicinal materials." Wang Zhiyi looked at Yang Jibin's more serious expression, and swore a promise.

Yang Jibin nodded, but he had doubts in his heart, and motioned for Wang Zhiyi to continue.

Wang Zhiyi continued: "If you think about it, the counterfeit market for precious Chinese medicinal materials such as bird's nest, cordyceps, saffron and wild ginseng on the market is quite huge due to the limited quantity.

Traditional Chinese medicine is a unique resource of our country, especially the natural Chinese medicinal materials are very valuable, and the growing place is relatively fixed, only the elm area of Qinghai-Tibet and Haiqing, and the Ganzi area of Tianfu can grow Cordyceps.

More than 90% of the cordyceps sinensis circulating in the market today is fake. Because the number of Cordyceps is gradually decreasing and is being hyped up, 1 kilogram of genuine Cordyceps can now be sold for 600,000 yuan. ”

"In addition to the counterfeiting of precious Chinese herbal medicines, there are actually many conventional Chinese herbal medicines that are also counterfeited. For example, there are many adulterants of Tongcao, and it is very rare to buy pure products, and the price of pure products is about 45 yuan per kilogram. Adulteration mostly uses alum, weighted powder (magnesium sulfate), the texture of the ginseng fake grass is hard, the taste is astringent, some are tasteless, and the recently adulterated grass is cut into small sections or broken segments, mixed with the genuine product and sold.

Shou Wu: cut into small cubes, mostly sweet potatoes cut into cubes, processed, identified: there is a caramel flavor when chewing, this is dried sweet potato. Disc type, adulterated with rhubarb and black beans boiled and dried. The safest way is to enter the shou wu wu.

White appendage: The adulterator uses sweet potatoes or potatoes to process them into slices of similar shape, which are dried and smoked. Identification: At first glance, there are obvious traces of knife cutting and processing around the fake medicinal materials. The second taste, the fake white appendage has no hemp taste.

Qianghuo: The adulterator uses the horsetail from the Northeast to live and slice it. Identification: Chrysanthemum heart, oily enough to be genuine. The best way to prevent counterfeiting: enter the original medicinal materials (no slices of Qianghuo), and cut it with scissors when you use it.

Angelica: Sliced angelica, easy to mix with live tablets. Those who have large slices, white colors, and sweet tastes are mostly living alone. Anti-counterfeiting trick: enter the unsliced angelica, and divide the head, body, and tail when using, and the effect is good.

Deer antler velvet: The people of the Western Regions pull out the leather layer on the surface of genuine deer antler velvet, and then mix the dye-dyed sand and wood powder with binder, stuff it into the deer antler holster, and sell it as blood deer antler velvet after drying. There are also people who sew deer antler-like holsters from mouse skin, stuffed with sawdust impregnated with pig blood to pass off as deer antler velvet. Identification: Look at the genuine blood deer antler tablets, and then look at their fake deer antler velvet, which is very easy to identify. ……”

Wang Zhiyi said dozens of common Chinese herbal medicine counterfeiting and identification methods in one breath, and Yang Jibin and Xu Xuenan were frightened when they heard it, and they never thought that there would be such a dark side in the Chinese herbal medicine market.

"Okay, it's a very profitable one." When Yang Jibin heard Wang Zhiyi say, he was really indignant, these people are too greedy, they don't care about the lives of others, they really deserve to die, although they are angry, but the world is like this, and he is helpless for a while.

Such counterfeit drugs flood the market, and most consumers, purchasers are impossible to completely distinguish, and even many pharmacy operators for the sake of profit, knowing that it is counterfeit drugs and still want to purchase, these cheap fake medicinal materials are sold to patients, and it is normal to not cure the disease!

In order to inherit and carry forward the Chinese medical Tao in the future, these ugly phenomena will inevitably be ploughed and swept into the garbage heap of history in the future, and Yang Jibin secretly made up his mind.

"Our Wang family is mainly engaged in precious Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine decoction pieces (Chinese herbal medicine raw materials are cut, fried, burned, ground and other processed products), customers are mainly state-owned hospitals in Tianfu Province and some Chinese medicine hospitals with a certain scale, in recent years, they are also trying to open up the market outside the province, but the effect is not very obvious." Wang Zhiyi said frankly.

"Brother Wang, tell me anything else, just tell the story!" Yang Jibin calmed down.

Hearing this, Wang Zhiyi was helpless and continued: "There is a basic 'rule' in the sales of traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces, if a clinic sells 100 yuan of traditional Chinese medicine, the cost is about 35 yuan, which is the lowest bottom line. Most hospitals and clinics are much more profitable than that. "If you are a medical material purchaser in the hospital, I dare to guarantee that if you buy 10,000 yuan of Chinese medicine decoction pieces for the hospital, you can earn 10,000 yuan yourself."

Such huge profits are simply crazy, Yang Jibin asked: "Manufacturing, selling, selling, those fake medicinal materials finally flow into hospitals and pharmacies." Yang Jibin asked a stupid word, but he still wanted to hear Wang Zhiyi say it in person, because he still had a trace of fantasy.

"Yes, you judged right, it can be said that at least half of the counterfeit drugs in the pharmacy market are now in the drugstore market, or the lack of medicinal properties is also among them." After saying that, Wang Zhiyi no longer kept anything. (To be continued......)