Design ideas of Chinese materia medica health products based on theory and advantages of traditional Chinese medicine / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Chinese materia medica (CMM) health products play an important position in the field of health products at home and abroad because of its long history of health, unique diet theory, and wealth resources of medicinal herbs. To inherit the theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and develop the health products with TCM characteristics, this paper has summarized the development status and common problems of CMM health products in recent years, and put forward the design idea based on the theory and advantage of TCM for designing the development model of CMM health products more scientifically and reasonably, which has followed the theory of dialectics of eight aspects, five elements, physique theory, and so on. An effort is made to create health products with TCM characteristics and advantages in order to adapt to the health needs of different people, which would make significant contribution to the people's health and industrial development.