Haikou Chinese herbal medicine prices soaring Taizi ginseng prices within 5 years

Business Club on September 27 hearing Aunt Wang Haikou public complained, easy to get angry after the fall, the day before yesterday to buy honeysuckle drinking water, but found honeysuckle to 300 yuan per kilogram, really unbearable! In May of this year, the honeysuckle cost about 220 yuan per kilogram. In September, the price of coconut honeysuckle rose to 300 yuan/kg in recent days. Once cheap Chinese herbal medicines, many Chinese consumers are now stunned. With the increase in autumn flu, prices of related medicines for treating flu, such as honeysuckle, Pinellia and heterophylla, have increased the most.

Taizi ginseng price has been quadrupled within a year

Yesterday morning, a reporter from the Business Daily came to the source supermarket of Longhua Road in Haikou, and saw medical staff in the pharmacy room busy with picking up the medicine. The reporter asked about the price of Taizi Senate. The medical staff said that it is now 3 yuan and 10 grams, and more than a month ago. The price is 1.2 yuan and 10 grams. The staff told the reporter that Taizishen is generally used for medicine distribution, and there are fewer people buying it alone, so the increase in prices does not affect the public's ability to catch medicine.

The reporter then went to the Datong branch of the drug supermarket in Hainan Guang'antang. The staff told the reporter that the Taizi Senate is now also 3 yuan and 10 grams. The price a month ago was 1.5 yuan and 10 grams. The staff said that Taizishen invigorates the spleen. Governance lung deficiency cough, eat less spleen, heart palpitation spontaneous sweating, mental fatigue. Therefore, there are still more people to buy, and the price increase does not affect the purchase of the people.

The reporter went to a pharmacy located on Longhua Road and learned that the current price of heterophylla has soared to 300 yuan per kilogram. The same period last year was only 60 yuan per kilogram, which means that over the course of a year, his net worth has gone up by five times, while the price rose sharply over the same period. There are also Huangqi, currently selling for 60 yuan per kilogram, only 28 yuan/kg at the beginning of the year.

“The price of Taizi ginseng has turned more than five times in one year. If someone had collected the Taizi ginseng last year, it would surely earn madness.” An owner of Liquor, who is a wholesaler of traditional Chinese medicines, said that the current price of Chinese medicine has gone up wildly, claiming to be engaged in ten For the first time in a few years, the wholesale of Chinese medicine has encountered such a situation. A few days ago, one customer needed to wholesale Taizishen, but after learning that the price was 300 yuan per kilogram, the customer questioned whether the price was wrong, and the excitement price rose too far.

Medicinal honeysuckle and other are also soaring

According to Mr. Li’s introduction, not only Chinese herbal medicines such as Radix Paeoniae Radix, Radix Astragali and other Chinese medicines have risen in price, but commonly used traditional Chinese medicines such as Forsythia have risen to RMB 28 per kilogram this year, which has risen to RMB 44 this year, or an increase of 57%. Later, the reporter visited a number of pharmacies in Haikou, currently Taizishen, Huang Qi and other Chinese medicine prices have been confirmed by many pharmacies.

In addition, the price of common medicinal honeysuckle is also skyrocketing. Haixiu Road, a drug supermarket staff said that heat and detoxification of honeysuckle has risen from 220 yuan per kilogram in May this year to 300 yuan per kilogram, in which the price of fine honeysuckle 500 yuan per kilogram, the price of wild honeysuckle per Kg 420. The staff member told the reporter that since May of this year, the price of honeysuckle has been rising. In September, the reason why prices have risen again is that many people recently purchased honeysuckle in large quantities, leading to the shortage of honeysuckle stores. The main reason is that Many Chinese herbal medicine manufacturers in other provinces have already raised the price of honeysuckle, and they are selling according to the quotation given by the manufacturers. Most of the customers who buy the products know that the price of honeysuckle has risen. The citizens did not express their dissent, and they naturally accepted it.

The price of Sanqi is currently falling

According to pharmacy sales personnel, some Chinese medicines have started to increase prices early this year. For instance, Chinese medicines such as March 7 and Tianqi are rapidly rising.

A few days ago, the reporter learned that the prices of 37 inland cities in the early part of the year were basically around 420 yuan per kilogram, and even the premium long-range price of 37 reached 700 yuan per kilogram.

Li said that compared with Taizi’s gains, the price of Sanqi has dropped. Two weeks ago, the price of Panax notoginseng 55 was 480 yuan per kilogram. It has now fallen to 420 yuan per kilogram.

Supply shortage and hot money speculation are the main reasons for the rise

Li Bo told reporters that at present, commonly used drugs such as March 7 and heterophylla rose to high levels, and it was somewhat difficult to purchase. The original purchase was once every tens of kilograms, but now because of the high price, the risk is too high, so you can only choose to purchase a few kilograms at a time and sell it again. And many customers have also bought several kilograms from the original purchase. "In the traditional Chinese medicine industry, it is very difficult to make money if you don't pick up the goods. The risk of picking up the goods is very high."

Why is the wave of price increases followed by a wave? According to Mr. Li’s introduction, traditional Chinese medicines such as Panax pseudo-ginseng and Radix Paeoniae Rugosa mainly come from Anhui, Yunnan, etc. This year, due to climatic reasons, many traditional Chinese medicines have reduced their production in large areas, and the rigid market demand has not diminished, and the situation of supply exceeding demand has emerged. Pharmacy sales staff also confirmed that the current purchase of Chinese medicine is not less than last year.

One is that hot money deposits goods and wants to wait for high prices for profit; Second, the degree of attention to entering the cold in the South is unprecedentedly increased, and the demand for medicinal materials such as honeysuckle increases; thirdly, natural disasters such as floods and other natural disasters in Yunnan, Sichuan, etc. The impact of the decline in production has led to high prices for Chinese herbal medicines. In addition, many farmers have learned that the price of cold medicines will continue to rise, and they have begun to "reluctant sellers."

According to industry sources, because Chinese herbal medicines are classified as agricultural and sideline products and subject to various factors such as planting and cost, it is difficult for the country to adopt a price limit policy. For most pharmaceutical companies, the increase in the price of raw materials has led to an increase in the cost of enterprises, which directly reduces the profitability of pharmaceutical companies operating proprietary Chinese medicines. The increase in the price of Chinese herbal medicines will inevitably drive up the cost of drug manufacturers, and rising costs will also drive up the price of proprietary Chinese medicines.

Many industry analysts have analyzed that the influx of hot money is one of the important reasons for the rise of Chinese herbal medicines. According to industry insiders, Chinese herbal medicines are another price-raising category after garlic, ginger and mung bean. After entering the Chinese medicine market, hot money is acquired at a low price and hoarded, and then sold when the market demand is large.