Xinhua News Agency issued an article: About 100 new Chinese medicine varieties were discovered

The report shows that nearly 60% of these new species have potential medicinal value through preliminary analysis There are many new discoveries in the general survey, including new taxa, new records, new cognition, etc for example, the new genera of Orchidaceae, primordium and Urticaceae, symptomatology, are found According to the report, up to now, based on the information management system of the national survey of traditional Chinese medicine resources, the information on the types and distribution of nearly 13000 kinds of wild medicinal resources in the country has been summarized, with a total number of about 20 million records There are 3150 unique species of medicinal plants in China, the most abundant of which is in Southwest China Based on the survey data of more than one million sample prescriptions, the reserves of 563 kinds of Chinese medicinal materials collected in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia can be estimated.