Some thoughts on health food formulated with traditional Chinese medicine.
10.19540/j.cnki.cjcmm.20190116.001
- Author:
Jin-Bo WANG
1
;
Guang-Yao CHEN
1
;
Rong SUN
2
;
Yi SA
1
;
Yun-Tao DAI
3
Author Information
1. National Committee on the Assessment of the Protected Traditional Chinese Medicinal Products,Center for Food Evaluation,State Administration for Market Regulation Beijing 100070,China.
2. School of Advanced Medical Science,Shandong University Jinan 250012,China the Second Hospital of Shandong University Jinan 250033,China.
3. Institute of Chinese Materia Medica,China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Beijing 100700,China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
functional claim;
functional evaluation;
health food;
traditional Chinese medicine
- MeSH:
China;
Food;
Food Industry;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2019;44(5):865-869
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
The health food industry is an important support for the big health industry and the strategy of healthy China. The Chinese medicine prescription health food has exceeded 60% of the total declared health food. However,the main basis for its function evaluation,the Technical Specification for Inspection and Evaluation of Health Food,was abolished in 2018,and 27 of them were based on modern medical and nutritional theories. Quantitative efficacy evaluation methods in western pharmacology are short of function claims and function evaluation methods reflecting the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine,which could affect the health food industry to a certain extent. Therefore,the establishment of the evaluation mechanism of Chinese medicine prescription health food which conforms to the positioning of health food and the theory of traditional Chinese medicine is helpful for the healthy development of health food industry. In this paper,this problem was explained from five aspects. First,how to differentiate the positioning of Chinese medicine prescription health food from ordinary food and medicine,and how to embody the characteristics of Chinese medicine. Secondly,the relationship between traditional Chinese medicine prescription health food and Chinese patent medicine. Thirdly,how to scientifically and reasonably determine the raw materials of traditional Chinese medicine prescription health food. Fourthly,how to explain the function claim of traditional Chinese medicine prescription health food,and how to evaluate its function scientifically and reasonably. Fifthly,the functional evaluation of Chinese herbal medicine prescription health food is connected with other national scientific and technological strategies. In this paper,a preliminary analysis of the Chinese medicine prescription health food was conducted from the above five aspects,and some personal views and suggestions were put forward,hoping to provide reference for the competent authorities and researchers.
