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Roadside Herbal Hall
City wise Street Shuncheng Jie ¶¶«°µó (Kunming, guanxi)
For 3,000 years, Chinese people have used herbs to cure sickness. Internatinal pharmaceutical companies, recognising increased acceptanice of herbal remedies in the West, are introducting modern research methods and production standards into China. They are eyeing a huge potential worldwide market. This foreign influence is going to pose a serious threat to the local Chinese medicine industry.
Of the many roots displayed here, some are also used in Western medicine. Extract of the licorice root ¥Ì¯ó is used in cough syrup, and gentian root ÀsÁx¯ó, containing bitter gloucosides, is used as a tonic and as a stimulant to digestion.
Text and Photo Jude Lam

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