Honeysuckle worth 6 times a year

From the second half of last year, the "drug for your pain" drama continued to show. Recently, statistical data from the Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine confirmed that 84% of the 537 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines in the national market have risen in price since last year, of which 28% has risen more than 51% and 2% has exceeded 300%.

“Before the first two years, a small packet of honeysuckle was only 6-7 yuan. This year it actually sold forty or forty yuan, up nearly six times, and it went too far.” At the end of last year, Ms. Han, who lives in Minhang District, expressed emotion when she bought honeysuckle.

Shanghai Tong Han Chuntang Yuyuan Main Store Sales Staff Introduction: At present, the price of honeysuckle at Tong Han Chun Tang is RMB 35-42 per 50 grams. "Not only honeysuckle, about 80% of the Chinese medicines have gone up in price this year."

Since last year, 84% of 537 Chinese herbal medicines in the national market have risen in price. Many consumers expressed their helplessness. “Never even self-made Chinese medicine can afford it.” Some netizens said: “If you go up, you will not eat.”

Guo Fanli, a research fellow in the pharmaceutical industry at China Investment Advisors, believes that the decrease in output is the “behind-the-scenes driver” for the skyrocketing Chinese medicine prices. “The price of Chinese herbal medicines will basically rise steadily every year, but the price of Chinese herbal medicines has skyrocketed this year, even ten times, and this is not normal.” Guo Fanli said that droughts in Yunnan, Guizhou and other regions caused some Chinese herbal medicines to decrease production. People's increasing demand for Chinese medicine has also pushed up Chinese herbal medicines prices.

Guo Fanli also believes that some Chinese herbal medicines with small yields, such as heterophylla, are more susceptible to speculation by hot money speculation. Therefore, they do not rule out hot money speculating on Chinese herbal medicines.