Traditional Chinese medicine is the treasure of China, which is famous for its natural, therapeutic, preventive and health care functions and little side effects. Traditional Chinese medicine is not as popular and convenient as western medicine because of its large volume, inconvenient decocting and dark and unpleasant smell after decocting. So, in the early 1990s, Professor Cai Guangxian, the president of Hunan Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the chief expert of ultramicro pieces, led the team and made unremitting efforts for 15 years, which set off a new revolution of traditional Chinese medicine.
Traditional Chinese medicine is not as popular and convenient as western medicine because of its large size and inconvenient decoction, and the soup after decoction is black, smelly and time-consuming. How to solve this problem of Chinese medicine, so that drinking Chinese medicine can be carried around like drinking coffee and brewed at any time? In the early 1990s, Professor Cai Guangxian, the director of Hunan Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the chief expert of ultramicro decoction pieces, led the team to study this subject for fifteen years.
"Research and development of ultra-micro pieces of single Chinese medicine" opened Cai Guangxian's chatterbox. He said that scientific research has proved that the dissolution amount and speed of effective components in Chinese herbal pieces are directly proportional to the particle surface area of the pieces. According to this principle, we use supersonic airflow to make the original medicinal materials collide with each other at -60℃. During the collision, the cell wall-breaking rate of medicinal materials reached 95%, forming micron-sized powder, and then granulating by special technology to form a new type of decoction pieces with 1 ~ 75 micron. After such physical changes, the dissolution rate of effective components in Chinese herbal medicine and the proportion absorbed by human body have been greatly improved. Experiments show that 1 g ultramicro American ginseng decoction pieces are 1 ~ 3 times higher than the original medicinal materials, at least equivalent to 2 grams.
How did Cai Guangxian, who has been devoted to academic research and serving patients all the year round, turn his attention to the revolution of Chinese herbal pieces? Cai Guangxian said that Chinese medicine narcissism in its own yard has never successfully entered the world outside the Chinese community and kept pace with Western medicine. What impressed him most was that one year, an Australian woman with rheumatism came to visit him while traveling in China, and he prescribed 60 kinds of Chinese medicines to take her back to Australia. However, these 60 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines were strictly examined by the local customs for a month before they were obtained, and in the process of boiling, because of their bad smell, they caused strong protests from neighbors. The female patient wrote him a letter after her illness, thanking her for curing her persistent ailment, and complaining that it was too much trouble to take Chinese medicine. Since then, he has been thinking about whether he can find a prescription to make Chinese medicine, like western medicine, recognized by modern standards in the international medical community, as hygienic as western medicine and convenient to take. Later, he told this idea to Professor Yang Yonghua, but I didn't expect that "great minds think alike". He immediately organized the Hunan Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine to start research in this field, and declared the national project. In order to ensure the success of the research, more than 60 research backbones participated in the research group, which can be said to be the strength of the whole hospital. For more than three years 1000 days, as the chief expert of the research group, he and the researchers lived a "three-point-one-line" life in the laboratory, analysis room and conference room. At the end of the project, they statistically processed hundreds of millions of pieces of data, and the original data alone was more than 4 tons.
Some people say that the wall-breaking of ultramicro decoction pieces actually breaks the barrier that restricts the development of traditional Chinese medicine to go international. Cai Guangxian said that the ultra-micro wall-breaking pulverization technology of traditional Chinese medicine has four obvious characteristics: first, it saves a lot of medicinal materials, and the dissolution rate of effective components is as high as 90% after using ultra-micro pulverization technology; Secondly, it is convenient and hygienic, and the traditional decoction pieces are not easy to preserve, easy to be moth-eaten and moldy, and the stability of ultra-micro decoction pieces is greatly improved, so it is very convenient to carry, store and take; Third, the quality is controllable. Strict quality standards have been set for each ultramicro Chinese medicine decoction piece, and the whole production process can be monitored by professional technicians, which can easily change the disadvantage that traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces can not meet the standardization requirements due to reasons such as origin and year. In addition, ultramicro decoction pieces are easy to be compatible. On the one hand, it maintains the formula characteristics of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment, and at the same time, it can use the dose more accurately like western medicine. Among these functions, Cai Guangxian thinks that the most revolutionary is convenience, hygiene and portability. He said that the ultra-micro decoction pieces can be carried with you, and only need to be soaked in boiling water when necessary, which saves the tedious decocting process and can be taken with you whether you are on a business trip or at work. Speaking of this, Cai Guangxian smiled. He said humorously, "Many people don't have to rest at home."
The doctor is great and benefits the whole people; The master of Tao is the master of all things. Cai Guangxian's success is not only in the Chinese medicine industry, but also in other related industries. According to Cai Guangxian, ultra-fine crushing and wall-breaking technology can be applied to a wide range of fields. For the traditional Chinese medicine production industry, the dosage of Chinese herbal medicine can be reduced by 30% ~ 50%, and at the same time, the dosage can be reduced, thus reducing the treatment cost of patients; For the food industry, it can improve the nutritional value of food; For feed processing industry, the feed processed by ultra-micro technology can make the meat of livestock and poultry fresh and tender, and accelerate the growth.
On June 5438+ 10, 2002, at the Shenzhen High-tech Products Fair, the technology of ultra-fine pieces of traditional Chinese medicine was transferred to Hunan Hengsheng Investment Group at a price of 42.5 million yuan, which set the highest price of intellectual property transfer in the history of traditional Chinese medicine in China. Hang Seng Investment Group also invested 300 million yuan in the early stage to build the only large-scale development enterprise of ultra-fine pieces of traditional Chinese medicine in China-Hunan Chunguang ultra-fine pieces of traditional Chinese medicine factory. At present, an industrial production base covering an area of 863 mu with an annual output of 1 10,000 tons and an annual output of 500 million yuan has been built. In order to provide high-quality raw materials for production, Chunguang Chinese Medicine Ultrafine Pieces Factory has also established five major Chinese herbal medicine planting bases in Hunan, including Pingjiang Atractylodes macrocephala production base, Huarong Gardenia production base, Shaoyang Yuzhu production base and Cili Eucommia ulmoides production base, with a total area of 500,000 mu, which can increase the economic income of local drug farmers by 200 million yuan every year.
In order to realize the goal of industrialization of traditional Chinese medicine more quickly, Chunguang Chinese Medicine Ultrafine Pieces Factory also acquired Shunwangcheng Chinese Medicine Professional Market in Juancheng, Shandong Province in September 2003, and reached a cooperation intention with Huabanqiao Chinese Medicine Market in Yueyang, Hunan. At present, the Piece Factory has completed the research of 426 kinds of ultramicro pieces by using ultramicro technology, of which 40 1 kind has been approved for production. After the products entered the market, they achieved good economic and social benefits.
When talking about the development prospect of ultramicro-decoction pieces, Cai Guangxian said with great expectation that ultramicro-decoction pieces technology will boost the industrialization process of traditional Chinese medicine and truly change the industrial structure of traditional Chinese medicine in China. Because ultra-micro technology has become the only way for the development of traditional Chinese medicine and a passport for traditional Chinese medicine to go global. As the developer of ultramicro decoction pieces, he wishes everyone can enjoy the convenience brought by ultramicro decoction pieces.