Historical evolution and current status analysis of commodity specification and grade of Curcumae Radix / 中草药

ABSTRACT

The commodity specification and grade of Curcumae Radix is an important indicator for evaluating the quality of medicinal materials. It is the basis for realizing the "price according to quality" of medicinal materials, and plays an extremely important role in regulating the market transactions and ensuring the clinical efficacy of Curcumae Radix. This paper makes a textual research on the historical evolution of the commodity specification and grade of Curcumae Radix, and sorts out the current status of the standard. At the same time, it investigates the current status of the market and origin of Curcumae Radix. It was found that the traditional classification and the quality of Curcumae Radix were mainly classified according to the indicators of origin and shape, color and other traits; In the "76 kinds of medicinal materials commodity specification standards" and "Chinese medicinal materials commodity specifications (225 kinds)", Curcumae Radix is mainly graded by traditional traits indicators, and the grading index is single; At present, Curcumae Radix is in a spontaneously grading market, and the market classification is not uniform; Curcumae Radix of origin are sold to major pharmaceutical markets and pharmaceutical factories in a unified way without grading of origin. Therefore, based on the results of the research and investigation of the specification and grade, it is proposed to improve and upgrade the specification and grade of Curcumae Radix in order to promote the formation of high-quality and high-priced trading systems. And at the same time to provide reference for the formulation of national or industrial standards for commodity specification and grade of Curcumae Radix.