Which is the more famous herbal city in China?

China's four major medicinal capitals, Bozhou, Anhui Province, Anguo, Hebei Province, Zhangshu, Jiangxi Province? , Henan Yuzhou.?

Bozhou, located in the northwest of Anhui Province, is known as the "capital of Chinese medicine". Is the hometown of the famous Han Dynasty physician Hua Tuo, due to the influence of a generation of famous doctors, led to the development of Bozhou medicine, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties Bozhou is one of the country's four major drug capitals, the end of the Qing Dynasty, Bozhou has become a collection of drug dealers, drugstores, drug giant densely packed, more than 2,000 kinds of distribution of traditional Chinese medicine, "drug capital". It is not difficult to see to the end of the Qing Dynasty Bozhou drug market has been very prosperous. Bozhou's Chinese herbal medicine cultivation is also more extensive, the Qing Dynasty writer Liu Kai has a poem: "small yellow city outside the peony flowers, ten miles, five miles raw sunrise, flowers before and after the flowers are people, families grow flowers such as mulberry and hemp." It can be seen that, under the specific conditions at that time, the development of the pharmaceutical industry relied mainly on the cultivation of Chinese herbs, the development of the pharmaceutical industry, promoting the development of the herb industry. Bozhou has developed into the country's largest distribution center for medicinal herbs, with annual sales revenue exceeding 10 billion yuan. In recent years, the medicinal materials have become one of the four economic pillars of Bozhou, built "China's first city of medicinal materials".

Bozhou has been known as the "medicine capital" since ancient times, and is a nationally renowned base for the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines, in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia with the word "Bo" on the word "Bo" there are "Bo peony", In the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, there are four kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, namely "Bo Shao", "Bo Chrysanthemum", "Bo Mulberry Bark" and "Bo Pollen", of which white peony accounts for 60% of the national total output. The city's planting of Chinese herbs has reached more than 400 varieties, *** there are more than 800 villages specializing in the cultivation of Chinese herbs, 8 Chinese herbal medicine planting bases, and 650,000 acres of herbs planted. Bozhou City has formed the largest Chinese medicine tablet industry cluster in China, and in 2007 was awarded the "Chinese Medicine Tablet Export Base" by the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Medicines and Health Products. Currently, there are 42 Chinese herbal medicine processing and production enterprises in the city, of which 39 have passed GMP certification. Bozhou built the country's largest, best facilities, the highest grade "China (Bozhou) Chinese herbal trading center", has become the country's largest distribution center for Chinese herbal medicines. Bozhou Chinese medicine industry is in the accelerated development, forming a more complete industrial chain including modern Chinese medicine research and development, planting of Chinese herbal medicines, processing of Chinese medicine tablets, production of Chinese medicine extracts, Chinese medicine health care products, proprietary Chinese medicines manufacturing and comprehensive support services, etc. In 1995, then President of the State Comrade Jiang Zemin for the Bozhou pleased to pen: "Hua Tuo hometown, the hometown of medicinal herbs! "

Bozhou is the home of Hua Tuo, the hometown of medicinal herbs.

Anguo medicine has a long history. Anguo City, known as Qizhou, Chinese herbal medicine trade has a thousand years of history, began in the Northern Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Traditional Chinese herbal medicine processing skills are exquisite, had a "Qizhou four best" fame, won the "grass to Anguo Fang into medicine, medicine to Qizhou began to incense" reputation. Anguo Chinese medicine culture has a history of nearly 1,000 years, Anguo medicine city was listed as one of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, Anguo modern Chinese medicine industry base was included in the Ministry of Science and Technology Torch Program. Anguo city now has more than 500 varieties of proprietary Chinese medicines, operating more than 2,000 varieties, radiation throughout the country and Europe, America, Southeast Asia, more than 20 countries and regions. 2012, the turnover of the market of Anguo Chinese herbal medicines is expected to be more than 11 billion yuan, the throughput of 1.2 million tons, is the country's largest Chinese herbal medicines distribution centers and export bases, the export value of the province's exports of Chinese herbal medicines accounted for about 80% of the total amount of exports.

China's one of the drug capital - Zhangshu, Zhangshu's pharmaceutical industry has a long history, is the history of China's largest distribution center for medicinal herbs, more than 1700 years ago. Since ancient times, there has been "medicine not to Zhangshu not Qi, medicine not Zhangshu not spiritual" reputation. The GeShiShan on the outskirts of the town is a natural medicinal field, stretching over 200 miles, with rich grass and trees, producing all kinds of medicinal materials, including animals, plants and minerals up to more than a hundred kinds of medicinal materials. As early as in the Jian'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Taoist Zhang Daoling, Ge Xianweng, etc. that is, practiced here. On the one hand, they were superstitious and preaching to drive away evil spirits, and on the other hand, they were collecting medicines, making pills to cure diseases and teaching the method of concocting. Later, Ge Hong, the grandson of Ge, summarized his medical experience and wrote the "Post-Elbow Preparation and Emergency Thousand Gold Formula", which was passed down to the rest of the world. During the Tang and Song dynasties, Zhangshu's pharmaceutical industry became more and more developed, and the number of medicine collectors and sellers increased day by day, and the pharmacy, herbal medicine line, and sub-manufacturing gradually emerged, and expanded to the outer provinces.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, here built a three Huang Gong (i.e., the temple of the King of Medicine), every April 28 on the lunar calendar, the Tang Dynasty famous doctor Sun Simiao birthday, set up a trading place on the side of the temple, the country's various ways of medicine merchants, more than clouds gathered here, trade. At the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, Zhangshu Chinese medicine store has developed to more than 200, at the same time, the provincial drug dealers also came here to set up a drugstore, and even built a hometown association organization. This gradually became a distribution center for medicinal materials. So far, there are still many well-preserved alchemy wells, medicine washing pools, ancient temples, medicine temples and other monuments in the territory. Zhangshu people collect and concoct Chinese herbs for generations, mastered many secret methods, whether it is frying, dipping, soaking, sizzling, or baking, drying, cutting, hiding, all have unique characteristics. The tablets cut by excellent pharmacists are "as thin as paper, blowing up, flush section, beautiful shape", with good color, aroma, shape, taste and effect. Zhangshu's pharmacists, pharmacists, and pharmacists travel all over the country to collect and purchase superior quality raw materials of medicinal herbs and transport them back for processing, which makes Zhangshu's medicinal herbs of complete varieties and fine texture. Therefore, Zhangshu has become the center of production, processing, preparation and operation of Chinese herbal medicines. The formation of "medicine capital", in addition to its favorable geographical conditions, well-developed waterway transportation, with its abundance of medicinal herbs, excellent planting of medicinal herbs, concoctions, distribution and storage, is inseparable. There are more than 200 kinds of natural medicinal herbs in GeShiShan, the famous JiangHaoHaoShell, JiangHaoHaoShi, is one of the local specialties. Zhangshu local, on the quality of medicinal herbs is very strict requirements, the medicinal herbs must be pure, the processing of tablets and its fine. Nowadays, the "Medicine King Temple Fair" has developed into an annual national medicinal material exchange conference. Every year, once the invitations are sent out, colleagues from Hong Kong, Singapore and other provinces, autonomous regions and cities flock to the event. At that time, Zhangshu has become a world of medicines and an ocean of medicines. In the east gate of the medicine city on the broad ping field, a special trading activities used to carry out the magnificent building complex rose, covering a total area of more than 15,000 square meters, can accommodate more than 10,000 people at the same time for trading activities.

Yuzhou, Henan Province, known as the "Chinese Medicine City," is also one of the birthplaces of Chinese medicine. Yuzhou has a long history of planting, collecting and processing Chinese herbal medicines, and is famous for its excellent processing and ancient concoctions. Historically, it has been said that "medicine does not smell good until you visit Yuzhou, and medicine is not good until you see the King of Medicine". Since the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, the magician Bianqi, the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing, and the king of medicine Sun Simiao have all practiced medicine and written books in Yu. Under their direct influence, the pharmaceutical industry in Yuzhou has also seen great development. Since the Tang Dynasty, the medicine market in Yuzhou has gradually taken shape, and along with the further development and prosperity of the pharmaceutical industry, Yuzhou became one of the four major distribution centers for medicinal herbs in the country during the Ming Dynasty. 1996, Yuzhou was designated by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SATCM), the Ministry of Health (MOH), and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) as one of the seventeen professional markets for Chinese herbal medicine in the country, and the only designated professional market for medicinal herbs in Henan Province. Yuzhou was designated as one of the seventeen specialized markets for Chinese herbal medicines in China and the only national specialized market for Chinese herbal medicines in Henan Province. In order to further develop the Chinese herbal medicine market and give full play to Yuzhou's unique pharmaceutical advantages, the Yuzhou Municipal Party Committee decided to build a new 300-acre Yuzhou "Chinese Medicine City" on the east side of the city's Medicine City Road and on the north side of the World of Commerce. The city includes a trading hall covering an area of 30 acres and a building area of 21,000 square meters, which is a large modernized Chinese medicine professional market.