Which substances are classified as "medicinal and food homologous"

The Food Safety Law stipulates that "no medicine shall be added to the food produced and traded", and if it is to be added, it can only be added "substances that are traditionally both food and Chinese medicinal materials
.
" "Substances that are both food and Chinese medicinal materials can only have legal consumption status
after passing a safety assessment.

What are the "substances that are both food and Chinese herbal medicine"? The 2013 edition of the Catalogue of Substances that Traditionally Serve as Both Food and Chinese Medicinal Materials includes 87 substances that can be used as food ingredients, spices and condiments, such as cloves, star anise, sword beans and cumin
.
The 2014 edition of the catalogue added 15 more substances
, including ginseng.
In 2019, the National Health Commission and the State Administration for Market Regulation issued the "Announcement on Six New Substances such as Angelica, which are traditionally both food and Chinese herbal medicines", which includes angelica, kaempfer, saffron, grass fruit, turmeric, and cubeb into the management of the substance catalogue that is both food and Chinese herbal medicine according to tradition, and is only used
as spices and condiments 。 In January 2020, the National Health Commission and the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly issued the Notice on Carrying out the Pilot Work on the Substance Management of Nine Substances such as Party Ginseng in accordance with the Tradition of Being Both Food and Chinese Medicinal Materials, which will include 9 substances such as Codonopsis ginseng, Cistanche, Dendrobium ferrugineum, American ginseng, Astragalus, Ganoderma lucidum, dogwood, Gastrodia, and Eucommia leaves, which will only be applied
as Chinese herbal medicines for production and operation pilots.
(Editor Li Chuang)