BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Guizhou province has recently opened an experience store of traditional Chinese herbs in its capital city Guiyang, aiming to exhibit traditional Chinese medicine, ethnic medical culture, Chinese herbal cuisine products and also to promote China's poverty alleviation and consumption, which has attracted many customers.
As a province with abundant resources of wild and native Chinese herbs and drugs, Guizhou has launched many traditional Chinese herbal cuisine products, Chinese herbal cosmetics, and daily necessities made by Chinese herbs and drugs.
Traditional Chinese herbal cuisine will be very healthy if its ingredients are used correctly. But at present, people do not understand the cuisine and can not control the dosage well, said Huang Jinchang, a professor at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and doctor of the Third Affiliated Hospital of the university.
As people's awareness of health care arises and the demand for nourishing food grows, the consumption potential of Chinese herbal cuisine products is becoming stronger. Ren Tingzhou, chairman of Anshun Yaowanggu Agricultural Sightseeing Tourism Development Co., Ltd. saw this business opportunity in 2015 and developed more than 40 kinds of herbal cuisines using the abundant local wild herbs and drugs.
Developed by Anshun Yaowanggu Agricultural Sightseeing Tourism Development Co., Ltd, Yaowanggu is a well-known forest health care base in Guizhou. In previous years, tourists from China's Qingdao, Chongqing, Chengdu and other cities liked to visit the health care base here and learn about the cultivation of Chinese medicinal herbs, which has brought a gross profit of more than 800,000 yuan for the company in 2019. Affected by the coronavirus epidemic this year, the number of tourists from other provinces have dropped significantly, but the local market remains good, said Ren Tingzhou.
Now, Guizhou has 23 kinds of medical herbs which can be used both as medicine and cuisine such as Gastrodia and Ganoderma lucidum, of which the planting area, output and value have been improved in recent years, with many health products such as Ganoderma lucidum tea and coix seed rose tea have been launched, according to Huang Mingjin, an associate professor at the College of Agriculture, Guizhou University.
Faced with the epidemic, people can take more traditional Chinese herbs with the homology of medicine and food based on a reasonable diet which is expected to prevent diseases and improve immunity, Huang said.
(Edited by Gao Jingyan with Xinhua Silk Road, gaojingyan@xinhua.org)
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