Cai Guangxian was born in Yueyang, Hunan. Currently, he is the dean of Hunan Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and secretary of the Party Committee of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has presided over and undertaken 15 scientific research projects at the national, provincial, ministerial, and departmental levels, including 7 scientific and technological progress awards at the provincial and ministerial levels and above, and 3 national patents. He has published 6 monographs, including the book "Modern Research on Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory" Since 1991, it has been used as a teaching material for undergraduate, master, and doctoral students majoring in traditional Chinese medicine; it has won the "Silver Award for China's Hundred Outstanding Young Chinese Medicine Practitioners", "China's Outstanding Workers in Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine", and "National Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Scientists with Outstanding Contributions" Technical Expert" and other honors; enjoys special allowances from the State Council. Served as the chief expert of the National Tenth Five-Year Plan Project and the most important science and technology project of Hunan Province's Tenth Five-Year Plan, "Research and Development of Ultra-micron Pieces of Single Traditional Chinese Medicine". This topic won 3 national patents and the first prize of the Hunan Province Science and Technology Progress Award. Cai Guangxian also Therefore, he became one of the top ten news figures in Hunan Province in 2003.
Traditional Chinese medicine is a treasure of China. It is natural, has therapeutic, preventive and health-care functions, and has few side effects. However, traditional Chinese medicine is not as popular and convenient as Western medicine because the medicinal materials are bulky, inconvenient to boil, and the liquid after boiling is black and smells bad, and is time-consuming. For this reason, in the early 1990s, Professor Cai Guangxian, president of the Hunan Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and chief expert in ultra-micron decoction pieces, led his team to work tirelessly for 15 years to launch a new revolution in traditional Chinese medicine.
Traditional Chinese medicine is not as popular and convenient as Western medicine because of its bulky medicinal materials, which are inconvenient to boil. The liquid after boiling is black and smells bad, and is time-consuming. How to solve this problem of traditional Chinese medicine so that drinking Chinese medicine can be carried around and brewed at any time just like drinking coffee? In the early 1990s, Professor Cai Guangxian, president of the Hunan Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and chief expert in ultra-micron pieces, led his team Exhibited fifteen years of research on this topic.
"Research and development of ultra-micron single-flavor traditional Chinese medicine pieces" opened Cai Guangxian's chat box. He said that scientific research has proven that the amount and dissolution rate of active ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine pieces are directly proportional to the particle surface area of ??the pieces. It is based on this principle that we use supersonic airflow to collide the original medicinal materials with each other at minus 60°C. During the collision, the cell wall breaking rate of the medicinal materials reaches 95%, forming a powder with a particle size of microns. New types of decoction pieces with a particle size of 1 to 75 microns are formed through granulation through a special process. After such physical changes, the dissolution rate of the active ingredients of Chinese medicinal materials and the proportion of them absorbed by the human body are greatly improved. Experiments have shown that one gram of ultrafine American ginseng slices can dissolve 1 to 3 times more active ingredients, which is at least equivalent to 2g of the original medicinal material.
Why did Cai Guangxian, who has been dedicated to academic research and patient service all year round, set his sights on revolutionizing traditional Chinese medicine pieces? Cai Guangxian said that traditional Chinese medicine is solitary in its own courtyard and has never successfully entered the world outside the Chinese community to keep pace with Western medicine. What impressed him most was that one year, an Australian female rheumatism patient came to him for treatment while traveling in China. He prescribed 60 doses of traditional Chinese medicine for her to take back to Australia. However, these 60 doses of traditional Chinese medicine were strictly scrutinized by the local customs. I only got it after a month, and during the cooking process, the smell was so unpleasant that it aroused strong protests from the neighbors. After the female patient recovered, she sent him a letter. In the letter, she expressed her gratitude for curing her chronic illness, but also complained a little: taking Chinese medicine was too troublesome. Since that time, he has been wondering whether he can find a way to make Chinese medicine, like Western medicine, recognized by the modern standards of the international pharmaceutical industry, and be as hygienic and convenient to take as Western medicine? Later, he mentioned this idea to Professor Yang Yonghua, but he did not expect that "the heroes have similar views." He immediately organized the Hunan Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine to start research in this area and declared a national project. In order to ensure the success of the research, more than 60 key scientific researchers participated in the research team, which can be said to be the strength of the entire hospital. For more than 1,000 days, which lasted more than 3 years, as the chief expert of the research team, he and the researchers lived a "three-point and one-line" life in the laboratory, analysis room, and conference room. At the end of the project, they made statistics and found that hundreds of millions of data had been processed, and the original data alone weighed more than 4 tons.
Some people say that the breakthrough of ultra-micro decoction pieces has actually broken down the barriers that restrict the development of traditional Chinese medicine to the international community.
Cai Guangxian said that the ultra-fine wall-breaking pulverization technology of traditional Chinese medicine has four obvious characteristics: first, it saves a large amount of medicinal materials. Using ultra-fine pulverization technology, the active ingredients of medicinal materials of the same quality can be dissolved up to 90%; second, it is convenient It is hygienic. Traditional pieces are difficult to store and are prone to insects and mildew. The stability of ultra-micron pieces is greatly improved, and they are very convenient to carry, store and take. Thirdly, the quality is controllable. Strict quality standards have been formulated for each ultra-fine Chinese herbal piece. Standards, professional and technical personnel can conduct quality control during the entire production process, easily changing the shortcomings of traditional decoction pieces that cannot meet the standardization requirements due to reasons such as origin and year; in addition, ultra-micro decoction pieces are easy to mix, and on the one hand they maintain It combines the formula characteristics of syndrome differentiation and treatment of TCM and prescribes the right medicine, and at the same time, it can use the dosage of medicine more accurately like Western medicine. Among these features, Cai Guangxian believes that the most revolutionary ones are that they are convenient, hygienic and easy to carry. He said that the ultra-micro decoction pieces can be carried with you, and you only need to soak them in boiling water when needed, eliminating the need for cumbersome decoction processes. You can take it whether you are on a business trip or at work. Speaking of this, Cai Guang laughed first, and he said humorously: "Many people no longer need to 'recuperate' at home."
The great doctor can help the common people; the great Taoist can provide everything. . Cai Guangxian's success is a great progress not only in the traditional Chinese medicine industry, but also in other related industries. According to Cai Guangxian, ultrafine grinding and wall-breaking technology can be applied in a wide range of fields. For the traditional Chinese medicine production industry, it can reduce the use of traditional Chinese medicine by 30% to 50%, while reducing the dosage, thereby reducing the cost of patient treatment. ; For the food industry, it can improve the nutritional value of food; for the feed processing industry, feed processed with ultra-micro technology can make the meat of livestock and poultry fed fresh and tender, and accelerate their growth.
At the Shenzhen High-tech Products Fair in October 2002, the technology of ultra-fine Chinese medicine pieces was transferred to Hunan Hengsheng Investment Group for a price of 42.5 million yuan, setting a new record for intellectual property transfer in the history of Chinese medicine. At the highest price, Hengsheng Investment Group also invested RMB 300 million in the initial stage to build the only large-scale Chinese medicine ultra-micron pieces development enterprise in China - Hunan Chunguang Chinese Medicine Ultra-fine Pieces Factory. At present, an industrialized production base covering an area of ??863 acres, with an annual output of 10,000 tons and an annual output value of 500 million yuan has been built. In order to provide high-quality raw materials for production, Chunguang Traditional Chinese Medicine Super Micro Decoction Piece Factory has also established five authentic Chinese herbal medicine planting bases in Hunan, including Pingjiang Atractylodes production base, Huarong Gardenia production base, Shaoyang Polygonatum odorifera production base, and Cili Eucommia production base. The total area of ??these bases is 500,000 acres, which can increase the economic income of local chemical farmers by 200 million yuan every year.
In order to achieve the goal of industrialization of traditional Chinese medicine faster, Chunguang Traditional Chinese Medicine Super Micro Decoction Piece Factory also acquired the Shunwangcheng Traditional Chinese Medicine Professional Market in Juancheng, Shandong in September 2003, and cooperated with Huabanqiao Traditional Chinese Medicine in Yueyang, Hunan The company has reached an intention to cooperate in the material market. The decoction piece factory has currently completed research on 426 types of ultrafine decoction pieces using ultramicro technology, of which 401 have obtained production approval. After the products entered the market, they achieved good economic and social benefits.
When talking about the development prospects of ultra-micron decoction pieces, Cai Guangxian said with great enthusiasm that ultra-fine decoction pieces technology will be even more powerful to promote the industrialization process of traditional Chinese medicine and truly change the pattern of my country's traditional Chinese medicine industry. Because ultramicro technology has become the only way for the development of traditional Chinese medicine and has become a passport for traditional Chinese medicine to go to the world. As the developer of ultra-micro decoction pieces, he hopes that everyone can enjoy the convenience brought by ultra-micro decoction pieces.
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