** Smoked herbs: Science standards must have

According to reports, the town of Shouyang, Longxi, Gansu, was discovered a few days ago that a large number of drug peasants violated the relevant regulations of the State Food and Drug Administration and used industrial sulphur to smuggle pharmaceutical materials to achieve insecticidal and storage-resistant purposes.

Although the State Food and Drug Administration has long stipulated that sulfur-smoked pharmaceutical materials are illegal, and listed in the pharmacopoeia revised in the previous year, specific methods for the detection of sulphur dioxide in medicinal materials, up till now, the amount of sulphur dioxide in herbs has been exceeded. However, there is still no quantitative and explicit limitation.

Japan, South Korea and other places, the method of checking on similar issues is to set the standard for sulfur dioxide residues in medicinal materials. Exceeding the standard punishes distributors, producers and importers. As to how this exceeds the standard, it will not affect the penalties. And results. In fact, in most of these places, there are no provisions or provisions that “can't smoke sulphur-produced pharmaceuticals”, because drug dealers all know that if they do so, the residue will inevitably exceed the standard, and once it exceeds the limit, it will be difficult to get a chance to get away with it. .

The formulation of rules and rules must be based on practicality and effectiveness. Instead of rigidly prescribing “shall not smoke with sulfur”, it is better to imitate the surrounding countries and set the standard for sulfur dioxide residue. Whether or not sulfur is used and industrial sulphur is used, if it exceeds the limit, It is illegal, medicines have to be confiscated, and operators must be punished.

It is worth mentioning that although the use of industrial sulphur smokers is a matter of recent years, traceability to the root cause, sulphur smog itself is an in-line tradition. In fact, compared to modern Western medicine, Chinese herbal medicines are processed and used, and there are many “rules” that allow outsiders to catch the attention of the outside world, such as prescriptions for overdose of certain toxic components, and some “uncertainty” and “drug induction” that are not clear to the public. And so on, there are more inconsistencies in the processing process than modern hygiene practices.

For this, the “Original Chinese Medicine School” and “Anti-Chinese Medicine School” each hold the word and judge it as an outsider. However, one thing is clear: Suspension, survival, and treatment are the biggest risks to patients. Under the circumstances, relevant parties can only and must formulate dose standards and restrictions for certain pharmaceutical ingredients according to conventional scientific principles, and strictly enforce the law, with excessive amounts of investigation and penalty, without having to examine the reasons for the violation.