Date: | 10 Apr 2013 |
Time: | 12:30 pm - 2 pm (Lunch included) |
Venue: |
HKUST Business School Central 15/F, Hong Kong Club Building 3A Charter Road, Central, Hong Kong. |
Remarks: | Seats are limited and first-come-first-served. Registration starts one month before the talk. |
Enquires: | 2358 5019 / science.for.lunch@ust.hk |
Mainland China produces more than 90% of the raw materials for Chinese medicine, yet its traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) products have only a 10% global market share. It doesn’t help that its prices are not competitive: for example, "female ginseng" Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Danggui 當歸) produced in the Mainland sells for HK$200/kg, whereas that produced in Japan and South Korea sells for HK$1,800/kg. The main reason is the lack of a complete set of quality standards that are recognized and accepted by the international community. The speaker has done a sample trial in standardization of TCM using the Danggui Buxue Tang (當歸補血湯) formula.