Influence of legislations related to animal on utilization and development of animal traditional Chinese medicine in China

ABSTRACT

Animals have many uses as a kind of natural resource. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, a series of legislations related to animal are published to protect animal resource, regulate animal breeding, and prevent public health risks caused by animal epidemics. In particular, since the outbreak of COVID-19, the strictest utilization regime of wild animals in history has been established and the revision of several legislations has been initiated, which will also make the utilization of animal traditional Chinese medicine (animal TCM) face stricter scrutiny. In this paper, the influence of existing legislations related to animal on the utilization of animal TCM was discussed, and some suggestions were put forward for the development of animal TCM.