Ejiao is only | 'boiled donkey skin'? But behind this is tens of billions of big business

Medicine Network February 26 News during the Spring Festival, the past few years quite popular health products donkey-hideu is a microblogging sent the cusp of public opinion.

February 18, National Health Planning Commission subordinate public hotline official released a micro-Bo, 'New Year is not worth buying ejiao': Ejiao in Health products In the paragraph has been high, there are a variety of effects aura blessing: blood, bleeding, beauty, tocolysis, anti-fatigue, anti-cancer ...... However, by the nature of the phenomenon, donkey-hide gelatin is just ' The main ingredient is collagen, and the lack of this protein, tryptophan, is not a good source of protein.

12320 Health Hotline is a philanthropic telephone network under the direction of the State Health Planning Commission. It mainly undertakes consulting and complaint reporting functions in the field of public health. Therefore, this official micro-speech is inevitably interpreted in various ways by netizens.

A stone aroused Melaleuca waves, this microblogging triggered a large number of users hot debate, and evolved into a controversy between Chinese and Western medicine.One party said that the efficacy of donkey-hide gelatin rather than supplementing blood protein, micro-irresponsible In discrediting Chinese traditional medicine; the other side believes that this microblogging content is true, donkey-hide gelatin's so-called health effects do not fly.

In fact, the content did not appear online for the first time. In 2016, medical media from the media, "Dr. Lilac", once pointed out that health products such as bird's nest, donkey-hide gelatin, honey and other health products The actual effectiveness of worrying.And this time, Wei Min Weibo microblogging only part of the article interception, and article by article.

Coincidentally, the People's Daily also quoted information on the shell network in 2016, saying donkey-hide gelatin, red dates, and brown sugar are basically useless. Among them, donkey-hide gelatin is made from donkey hide with the main ingredients of collagen and pigs Leather, leather and other skin composition is not much different because there is no iron, so there is no blood iron supplement role.

On the other hand, donkey-hide gelatin is an effective drug to be included in the "Chinese Pharmacopoeia." Its function and attending scope is clear: blood nourishing yin, moistening, hemostasis.Used for blood deficiency chlorosis, vertigo palpitations, atrophy weakness, upset Sleeplessness, virtual wind moving, dry cough, cough, hemoptysis hemoptysis, hematochezia bleeding, bleeding in pregnancy.

Up to now, the Health and Planning Commission has not yet made a detailed explanation of the microblogging remarks, the East donkey-hide gelatin and other related enterprise Nor did they respond in vocal and how follow-up was yet to be observed.But the donkey-hide gelatin in the controversy is worth talking about.

Since 2000, gelatin prices soar all the way to the industry's leader Dong E Jiao, for example, public data show that from 2001 to 2016, 15 years of its retail price of gelatin products rose from 130 yuan per kg to 5400 yuan, More than 40 times, if the hoarding method is feasible, then the benefits far exceed the same period of real estate, Maotai, or even gold.

In the secondary market, the stock price of Dong E-Jiao also climbed from around 5.4 yuan in early 2006 to around 62 yuan today.

Earlier, according to the China Securities Journal, the reporter visited Beijing in November last year, a number of large-scale pharmacy A number of pharmacy clerks recommended the East donkey-hide gelatin, Tong Ren Tang Ejiao block. 'Quickly buy, do not buy and prices.' Clerk said that to buy a lot of donkey-hide gelatin is an old customer, buy a box to buy a year will come Some well - service pharmacies will also provide processing services as a promotional tool, that is, customers pick up the shop accessories, free processing into instant ejiao cake.

According to a pharmacy salesman Xuanwumen introduced in recent years, the film prices almost every year, the time is generally in June and New Year's Day ago.

It is worth mentioning that the gelatin industry has also been dominated by a small number of enterprises trend.According to the forward industry research institute data show that the major domestic production of donkey-hide gelatin is donkey-hide gelatin and donkey-hide gelatin East donkey-hide gelatin is located in Liaocheng East County , Biyi gelatin is located in Dongyin Pingyin County, Jinan City, the two companies across the Yellow River, all think they are 'orthodox points' Dong E-gelatin occupy the high-end market, Fu plastic occupy the low-end market, total output accounted for More than 60% of the entire industry.

According to insiders, in the past ten years, donkey-hide gelatin prices behind the main push is 'donkey skin resource shortage'.

The donkey used to be the main force of agricultural labor and transportation in the northern part of our country. However, with the economic development, the level of agricultural modernization has been significantly improved, and there are fewer places for donkeys, so the donkey industry has been seriously affected. According to the 2015 National Livestock Statistics Yearbook , Donkey stock has declined from 9.44 million heads in 1996 to 5.42 million at present, the total supply of domestic donkey skin is less than 1.8 million, less than half of domestic demand.

In a serious shortage of supply, the industry introduced, 2001-2016, donkey hide prices in the process of more than 40 times, the domestic donkey skin prices have risen nearly 100 times, and now each donkey hide (about 3.5 kg -4 kg ) Has been sold for about 2,500 yuan, while its market price was only 20 yuan in 2000. One year to buy a scale of 10,000 donkey skin traders, a hands-down each year, there is a big profit into the account.

As a result, imports have become a major source of raw materials.Dong E-Jiao, the relevant person in charge before interviewed said that the donkey-hide gelatin Dong donated raw materials imports ratio has increased to 20%.

According to foreign media reports, due to the huge import volume of China, Niger, Burkina Faso and other countries in Africa announced the cessation of the export of donkey skins and said that their domestic donkey resources have been "over-developed."

Reported that China is the largest exporter of Burkinabe donkey hide skin, the Chinese people use it to manufacture traditional Chinese medicine donkey-hide gelatin. Authorities said donkey skin exports from 1000 in the first quarter of 2015 rose sharply to the last quarter of the same year 18,000 copies.

In response, Qin Yufeng, president of Dong-E-Jiao Group, told Global Times in an interview that the import of Chinese donkeys overseas in line with the needs of the internationalization of the market is also helping to solve the problem of excessive number of donkeys in some places.

Frequent controversy, the industry said the billions of markets can be expected

'At present, the overall scale of the gelatin industry in China is more than 20 billion yuan. In the future, with the liberalization of the national policy on the second child and the increasing public awareness of health care, the gelatin industry will exceed 100 billion yuan in scale.' In November 2015, President Qin Yufeng made the above remark when attending the event.

Prospective Industry Research Institute is expected in the current market demand growth, 2017 -2022 industry can maintain a growth rate of about 15%, that is, by 2022 the size of the market to reach 71.7 billion yuan gelatin.

One side is the growing market demand and expectations, the other side is the effectiveness of donkey-hide gelatin is being questioned from time to time.

From the experimental science point of view, in the 1930s, Ni Zhangqi, a physician at Peking Union Medical College Medical College, conducted a test on anemia dogs made by the blood-letting method. The results showed that donkey-hide gelatin had blood-supplementing function in anemic animals Ejiao is not unique. Combined with Beijing medicine University of an experimental conclusion, 'the skin glue amino acid content was no significant difference, it seems pig skin, horse skin, leather instead of donkey hide', indicating donkey-hide gelatin blood function is not unique, is not significant.

From the Chinese point of view, any supplements are different, in Medicinal herbs The use of dialectical use should be under the guidance of Chinese medicine theory.The controversial microblogging simple gelatin = boiled donkey skin = collagen protein, did not give any data support.Discussion Both parties can come up with scientific analysis, experimental data The support of the authority of experts argumentation, it is more convincing.