What medicinal herbs are in short supply in rural areas? A detailed introduction to the top ten varieties

Along with the rise in per capita medical and health consumption spending, people's demand for traditional Chinese medicine products is continually expanding, and boosted by favorable policies, the cultivation of China's traditional Chinese medicinal herb industry is also steadily improving. But in recent years, many farmer friends have blindly followed the trend in planting, resulting in heavy losses. In fact, choosing to grow medicinal herbs that are in short supply and in high market demand offers broader prospects, and that is the key to making money. So what medicinal herbs are in short supply in rural areas? Let's find out together.

1. Wild Gastrodia

Wild Gastrodia is a precious medicinal herb, and because demand has expanded year by year, supply falls short. Add to that the fact that the number of purely wild Gastrodia has grown smaller and smaller in recent years, and it has become one of the medicinal herbs in short supply on the market.

2. Paris polyphylla

Paris polyphylla is fairly common in Yunnan, and because wild plants have been heavily dug up, it has become a medicinal herb in short supply. So nowadays artificial cultivation is fairly common; Paris polyphylla is mostly used externally to reduce swelling and relieve pain, has high medicinal value, and is in great market demand.

3. Horse bezoar

Horse bezoar is also a very rare and scarce medicinal herb; horse bezoar is in fact a kind of stone formed in a horse's stomach, and it is very difficult to form, which is the main reason for its scarcity. Horse bezoar has a very good effect on symptoms such as convulsions in children and epilepsy.

4. Iron-stem Dendrobium

Iron-stem Dendrobium is one of China's precious medicinal herbs; in ancient times, because of its rarity, it was called the "gold among medicines." And modern researchers, through painstaking study, have worked out environments suited to its growth, allowing this precious medicinal herb to be preserved.

5. Maca

As a rare plant and natural medicine, maca has drawn the attention and study of more and more international botany experts and pharmaceutical experts. Nowadays, many people buy maca, and many buy maca as a tonic; it is praised as "South American ginseng."

6. Cordyceps

Cordyceps is also one of the medicinal herbs in very short supply; like snow lotus, it grows in high-altitude areas, and its growing environment is extremely demanding, and harvesting it is also very difficult. So high-quality Cordyceps is now very scarce on the market.

7. Rhodiola

The cost of domesticating Rhodiola is very high, so the cost of artificial cultivation remains high, and because supply is small it is a very scarce medicinal herb on the market, selling for over 40 yuan per jin.

8. Ginseng

Ginseng is a specialty of Northeast China, with quite high nutritional value; like reishi and snow lotus, it is precious and rare, so many regions are trying artificial cultivation.

9. Snow lotus

Snow lotus generally grows in high-altitude cold mountain areas such as Xinjiang and Qinghai, and because it is rare its price is very high; it is a very precious medicinal herb.

10. Musk

High-quality musk is more expensive than gold, and it is also one of the medicinal herbs in very short supply, with very small quantities. Musk has a very good effect of dispersing blood stasis and reducing swelling and relieving pain, and is very popular with consumers on the market.



Overall, there are still many categories of medicinal herbs that are in short supply and scarce on the market, so developing the artificial cultivation industry is very important. And growers can, according to market conditions in their areas, plant whatever is lacking, so as to obtain better planting profits.

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