Chapter 47: Chinese medicine farmers make wedding dresses for people
The next morning, after breakfast, Liu Limin took Zhang Xiuying to Qingyun Mountain for fun.
On the way, Zhang Xiuying asked: "Brother Limin, is there really a lot of medicinal materials in Qingyun Mountain? Tell me about it then!"
Liu Limin smiled and said: "Yes, Qingyun Mountain is like a treasure house of Chinese medicinal materials. There are many good medicinal materials in it. This year I plan to start planting some Chinese medicinal materials artificially. This is much more profitable than growing food.
And it can solve the current problem of insufficient Chinese medicinal materials!"
Zhang Xiuying said with admiration: "Brother Limin, you are amazing!"
Liu Limin chuckled and said: "What's so great about this? If you ask me, the teacher is really great. Okay, when we get to the mountain later, you have to listen to me and don't run around. On Qingyun Mountain, there are
There are a lot of dangers. Although there are no jackals, tigers or leopards, there are a lot of snakes!"
Zhang Xiuying was startled when she heard that there was a snake. She couldn't help but stretched out her little hand and tightly grasped Liu Limin's sleeve.
Zhang Xiuying blushed and said: "Really? I have been most afraid of snakes since I was a child!"
Liu Limin smiled and said: "Really, but I'm here, so you don't have to be afraid. I'm the best at catching snakes. Besides, it's winter now, and the snakes are hibernating, so they can't escape. Don't worry."
Qingyun Mountain is not very high and the area is not very large. There are still many farmers living on the periphery, but once you get inside, you see fewer and fewer people.
Gradually, there were no more roads. Fortunately, it was winter, so the vegetation was all dry and there were no snakes or insects. It was much better than coming here in the summer.
Even so, the road is not easy to walk. Liu Limin also brought a big woven bag this time. He can dig out any good medicinal materials. How can he return empty-handed after entering the treasure mountain.
Zhang Xiuying was soon out of breath from exhaustion. After all, she was a girl from the city and had never experienced hardship. When Liu Limin saw this, he smiled and said: "Little junior sister, please sit down and have a rest first. I will take a look around here."
Are there any good herbs?"
Zhang Xiuying was really too tired to walk, so she nodded and said, "Okay, Brother Limin, I'll sit down for a while. I didn't expect climbing to be so tiring."
Liu Limin took a woven bag and a small shovel and started looking for medicine.
Now that it's winter, you can basically only find some rhizome medicinal materials, such as Ligusticum chuanxiong. This kind of Chinese medicinal material can be grown and used to promote blood circulation and qi, dispel wind and relieve pain.
Liu Limin soon discovered a lot of Ligusticum chuanxiong, which is a good thing. He should dig more and use it as seeds. If he plants it this year, he can probably harvest a lot.
While digging, Liu Limin was thinking that the cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials must be started in Dingxin Commune, and this place will be built into a real green Chinese medicinal material base in the future.
Why is it called green? Because as a reborn person, how could Liu Limin not know why China's traditional Chinese medicine is declining more and more? On the contrary, in foreign countries, traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine are developing well.
There is a big problem here, which is the quality of Chinese medicinal materials.
Because many Chinese medicinal materials are cultivated artificially, there are differences in quality.
Pharmaceutical farmers grow Chinese medicinal materials, just like growing vegetables and grains. They all want to obtain higher yields and higher incomes, so they use more and more pesticides and chemical fertilizers. As a result, the quality of Chinese medicinal materials deteriorates, and the output
Although it is high, the efficacy of the medicine is greatly reduced.
Therefore, when Chinese medicine doctors prescribe medicines to patients, they still follow the original prescriptions, and it will be difficult to achieve the desired effect.
Good artificially grown Chinese medicinal materials do not use pesticides or chemical fertilizers, and grow naturally like wild Chinese medicinal materials. In this way, artificially grown Chinese medicinal materials are not as good as wild ones, but they are not much worse.
Although China is the largest country in the cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials in the world, it ended up making wedding dresses for people and became a base of Chinese medicinal materials for Xiao Benzi and Bangzi, and Xiao Benzi and Bangzi made a lot of money.
As a reborn person, how could Liu Limin not know this? Although he was not a doctor in his previous life, he had seen a lot of news on TV and short videos.
Xiaobenzi, Bangzi, and even the United States import large quantities of rough-processed Chinese medicinal materials from China and process them into proprietary Chinese medicines, making huge profits. Pharmaceutical companies in these three countries monopolize 90% of the international market for proprietary Chinese medicines.
share.
In the global traditional Chinese medicine market, small books and sticks account for 90%. You must know that in 2020, the global market sales of traditional Chinese medicine reached more than 30 billion US dollars, while China only accounted for 5%
market share.
As for China, the scale of the traditional Chinese medicine industry has reached more than 400 billion, but exports are very small, because Chinese medicinal materials are exported to small books and sticks, and then processed by them and sold back at high prices.
Of course, most of these processed products are Chinese patent medicines, and some are high-end medicinal materials, such as selected pollution-free Chinese medicinal materials. They are imported from China at a low price in small books, and then screened, processed and packaged, and sold at a high price.
They are then sold back, as is the case with medicinal materials such as ginseng.
There are more than 200 Kampo medicine factories in Xiaobenzi, and the annual sales of prescription Kampo medicines reach more than one billion US dollars. The price of ginseng sold in Bangzi and Xiaobenzi after processing and packaging is twenty-five times that of China, and it is imported from China.
Then it became exported to China and earned the price difference.
Thinking about this, Liu Limin felt very angry. China is the origin of traditional Chinese medicine, but it can't even do the work of Xiaoben and Bangzi, but it also makes wedding dresses for them.
Now that I have a system and the skills to grow Chinese medicinal materials, I have to do something.
Liu Limin dug hard, treating all the soil as a small book. After a while, he dug up a lot of Ligusticum chuanxiong.
Suddenly, Liu Limin heard Zhang Xiuying screaming. He quickly stood up and looked back, only to see Zhang Xiuying had fallen and was sliding down the slope.
Further down is a cliff more than ten meters high, which is very dangerous.
Liu Limin threw away the shovel in his hand and ran over quickly, shouting: "Little junior sister, don't be afraid, grab those dead grass!"
There was indeed a lot of dead grass on the slope, and it was actually possible to hold on to it. However, Zhang Xiuying was just about to go to see Liu Limin digging for medicinal materials when she accidentally fell down. She was too panicked.
Hearing Liu Limin's reminder, Zhang Xiuying quickly stretched out her hands and grabbed the dead grass on the ground.
This relieved the situation a bit, but the root system of the dead grass was not deep, so the grass was still torn off.
Fortunately, Liu Limin finally rushed over at this time. He grabbed a withered vine, slipped to Zhang Xiuying, and grabbed her hand.
Zhang Xiuying gasped in fright. If she fell, she would probably die.
Liu Limin pulled her up with force, and the two of them sat on the ground and took a breath.