Autumn and winter tonic market chaos: low prices of medicines into the gift box rose

With the change of people's life concept and the improvement of the quality of life, health has been increasingly valued by people. Some precious herbs that use nourishing care as a selling point have become popular in the gift market. In the autumn and winter tonic season, the Nanfang Daily reporter visited the market and found that all kinds of valuable medicinal materials are becoming “gifts” for visiting relatives and friends. However, industry insiders said that when consumers purchase Chinese herbal medicine gifts, they can't just look at the appearance. Individual merchants put the medicines that are not high in quality into high-quality products and the price immediately rises several times or even tens of times. This has become an industry Open secret.

â–  Consumer Alert poor weight gain Cordyceps herbs by packing tricks <br> <br> reporter found that during the visit, put on supermarket shelves all packaged herbs. However, people in the industry have stated that when consumers purchase Chinese herbal medicine gifts, they can't just look at the appearance, and some exquisitely packed medicinal herbs cannot guarantee quality.

A shopkeeper who has been operating Cordyceps and other fine medicinal materials for more than 10 years told reporters that the prices of some medicines such as "packaging", "makeup" and "face cleansing" that are not high in quality have risen several times or even dozens of times. Has become an open secret in the industry. Cordyceps prices have soared in recent years. Because of the high price of Cordyceps, many operators have moved their minds, and there are more and more "funny animals" in Cordyceps.

According to the shopkeeper, if a Cordyceps breaks down, the price will be greatly reduced, and some vendors will cut the grass with glue or toothpick into a whole grass. If there are as many as 1,000 pounds of Cordyceps, there will be as many as two or three thousand roots. Miscellaneous bad products are simply hard to identify. In addition, using artificially cultivated Cordyceps as wild Cordyceps is also a relatively common phenomenon.

In addition, the shop owner also broke the news to reporters, some people even with the appearance of very similar to the Asian incense sticks, North Cordyceps, etc. posing as Cordyceps sinensis, and these Asian incense sticks, the North Cordyceps market price of about 1,000 yuan per catty. In addition to the quality of the article, there are some businesses who are playing with their weight and adding weight by adding mud or water, and some even gain weight by smearing heavy metal powder, lead wire or iron wire.

In addition to hidden "mystery" in Cordyceps, the business is still "big fuss" in wild ginseng. The owner of the shop said that many wild ginseng products from the supplement stores and pharmacies were purchased from him, and each wild ginseng price was between 4,000 and 5,000 yuan. Most "wild wild ginseng" are actually "moving ginseng". The real wild ginseng is very rare and the price is comparable to Cordyceps.

The so-called "Transfer Participation" means that the cultured seedlings that have sprouted in the ground are transplanted into the mountains and allowed to grow in the natural environment. This has become wild ginseng. Its shape is not much different from the real wild ginseng, but the price is much cheaper.

According to industry insiders, because these rare medicinal herbs commonly exist in the phenomenon of “buy not eat, eat not buy”, most consumers know little about the identification knowledge of Chinese medicinal materials such as Cordyceps sinensis and the black screen of circulation, so these problems are found. Difficulties and more difficult rights protection have given some unscrupulous traders an opportunity. When consumers purchase related products, they should first choose the formal purchase channels, and then try to buy well-known brand products.

Some pharmacy experts also pointed out that these traditional Chinese medicine gifts that have been “fired” are basically tonics in the traditional sense, and people’s blind pursuit of health and the demand for gift markets have pushed up the price of these medicines, making prices far higher. Out of its own value. In fact, most people do not need tonics. Many people are troubled by the "three highs," and all kinds of geriatric diseases and "rich people's diseases" are getting younger and younger. Blind tonics are not only unhelpful to health, but they will aggravate these conditions.

1 market visits Cordyceps health care products Selling prices continued to rise <br> <br> Recently, the reporter visited several large supermarkets in Guangzhou City, on the counter health care products to see, from the common cultivation supplements, such as chicken, wine health, Ejiao, kidney, zinc supplement products, etc., to bird's nest drinks, Cordyceps lozenges about dozens of varieties.

In the health products counter of Guangzhou Tianhe Jizhidao, the reporter saw a middle-aged man who bought nearly 20 senior supplements at a time. He told reporters that these gifts were bought to send customers and parents' relatives and friends, both green and healthy, It is more appealing to customers than moon cakes and alcohol.

According to the sales staff of Jusco, autumn and winter season is the peak season for health products. With the arrival of the Mid-Autumn National Day, the sales of health products have reached a climax. The sales volume of almost every type of tonic has improved significantly from the previous period. Among them, sales of luxury supplements accounted for an important proportion, such as Cordyceps, bird's nest, Ganoderma lucidum, sea cucumber, heterophylla, etc. are the first choice for holiday gifts, royal jelly, propolis, pollen and other bee products are also popular.

In Tianhe City, a layer of still-nourishing gift counters, the reporter saw some of the counter's bird's nest is doing "buy 22 get one or two" promotions. When reporters questioned whether or not to raise the price before sales discounts, the sales staff explained that the price of bird's nest has not changed much since the beginning of this year, nor will it rise during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The sales staff said that the current price of each species of Cordyceps generally rose by 5 yuan per gram, the current counter price is 180 yuan to 300 yuan range. “The rise in Cordyceps prices is not due to the Mid-Autumn National Day. It is mainly due to bad Cordyceps harvest this year.”

However, in the counter of the Orient Red Gift Counter on the first floor of Guangbai Department Store, the reporter found that the price of bird's nest here rose, while the price of Cordyceps did not change. The reporter saw that the price of 100 grams of bird's nest gift box is 6800 yuan / box, 68 yuan per gram. Sales staff told reporters that this month, the variety of bird's nest prices rose 3 yuan per gram, the previous is 65 yuan / gram, other varieties of bird's nest have increased in different ranges, mostly around 3-5 yuan.

In the Cailin Lin counter, the price of bird's nest in the mid-range price is RMB 63 per gram, and Cordyceps in the mid-range price is RMB 288 per gram. The sales staff told the reporter that Cai Zhilin did not increase the price due to the arrival of the two festivals. The price of bird's nest has not changed this year, and Cordyceps prices have risen with the cost price. This year has risen several times. The reporter noticed that some of the beautifully packaged Cordyceps gift boxes have a specification of 20 grams and the selling price is over 5,000 yuan.

2 latest market prices higher Cordyceps speculation reduced production at low tide thirty-seven the first drop in four years the price <br> <br> It is reported that in early 1980, in the main producing areas of Cordyceps Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai --- Zaduo, Cordyceps The purchase price of one kilogram will also be more than ten dollars, and the market price will be about three to five hundred pounds. But now, the top Chinese caterpillar fungus costs 300,000 yuan per kilogram, equivalent to nearly 300 yuan per gram of unit price. Even if it is cheaper, it costs 30,000 yuan for a pound.

A securities company analyst told reporters that with the continuous reduction of wild resources, Cordyceps will continue to operate at high prices in 2012. On the one hand, due to the destruction of the ecological environment and excessive excavation of Cordyceps, the output of Cordyceps has been decreasing year by year. This year, the Cordyceps harvest in Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan and other places is nearing completion, and its production is significantly reduced compared with 2011. On the other hand, because Cordyceps has better health care functions, it is constantly sought after by the market. The distributors from all parts of the country followed the purchase to the place of origin, resulting in rising prices.

Compared with Cordyceps militaris, although the price of heterophylla was not as high as Cordyceps, it also maintained a steady rise. The aforementioned analysts stated that in 2010, the two major producing areas of Taizi Senate in Fujian and Guizhou suffered natural disasters such as freezing, flooding, and drought, which resulted in a reduction in the production of heterophylla. In 2010, the price of heterophylla rose from 50 yuan/kg to April 2011. 380 yuan/kg. This year, although the production of heterophylla was more than in 2011, its price remained at a high of 210 yuan/kg in early September, which was flat compared to the previous month and down 22% year-on-year.

It is worth noting that in recent years, "star" Panax notoginseng in Chinese herbal medicines has declined for the first time in four years. However, according to the circulation analysis report of the key varieties of Chinese herbal medicines released recently by the Ministry of Commerce, Panax pseudoginseng is still the biggest increase in price this year.

The Ministry of Commerce's “Analysis report on the circulation of key varieties of Chinese herbal medicines in the first half of 2012” showed that Panax pseudoginseng, Gastrodia elata, and ginseng are the varieties with the highest price increase among 29 important Chinese herbal medicines in China. Since 2008, the price of Panax rose from the initial 60 yuan per kilogram to nearly 1,000 yuan per kilogram, an increase of more than 1100%. However, since August, the high price of Panax pseudoginseng has seen a plunge of around RMB 100 per kilogram, a drop of 13%.

According to Cui Xiu-ming, president of the Wensan Sanqi Research Institute in Yunnan, the price of Sanqi in recent years has skyrocketed. There are also reasons for the production, and a large part of this is due to the speculation of funds. Now, as the excessively high portion of the funds is unbearable, and the output is stable, the price of Sanqi begins to gradually return to rationality.