Overview Analysis of Tibetan Medicines on the Market in China
OBJECTIVE To understand the overall situation of Tibetan medicines on the market,and to explore the method of comprehensive evaluation of Tibetan medicines.METHODS Data were extracted from the drug information network of the State Drug Administration and analyzed from the dimensions of manufacturers and varieties of Tibetan medicines.RESULTS The 373 items of proprietary Tibetan medicine were included,80 items(proprietary Chinese medicine)were excluded,19 manufacturers were involved,and 182 different dosage forms of proprietary Tibetan medicine were involved.The protection level of Tibetan patent medicine protection varieties includes 16 varieties,and the provincial standard document number involves 16 varieties.The classification of systemic treat-ment diseases is mainly concentrated in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases,the treatment of skin,yellow water and rheumatic drugs,the treatment of liver diseases.CONCLUSION The preliminary comprehensive evaluation catalogue of proprietary Tibetan medicines can be conducted in steps according to the existing evaluation methods of proprietary Chinese medicines in terms of protected varieties,multi-varieties of manufacturers and classification of major diseases.The first batch of varieties include 25 Flavor Song shi pills,25 Flavor Coral pills,25 Flavor Pearl pills,25 Flavor Guijiu pills,Zhituo Jiebai pills,15 Flavor Black pills,70 Flavor Pearl pills,Renqing Changjue,Coral 70 Flavor pills,Pain Relieving patch,and Nodikon capsules.