Research on the Development of Chinese Medicine and Its Impact on the Environment

University College London, London, UK, WC1E 6 bt

^* Corresponding author. Email: zceczw0@ucl.ac.uk

Abstract

Traditional Chinese medicine has been among the two major drug systems in the world since ancient times and has played a very important role in the medical industry. With the development of traditional Chinese medicine, while the efficacy of medicine has been improved, it has gradually had a huge impact on the surrounding environment. The reduction of environmental quality not only affects the quality of traditional Chinese medicine but also causes harm to other organisms. Therefore, it is extremely important to improve the production methods of traditional Chinese medicine. Based on the different production methods of different types of traditional Chinese medicines, the improvement methods are also different. This paper mainly studies the influence of environmental factors on the quality of Chinese herbal medicine and the influence of the industrialization of modern Chinese medicine on the surrounding environment and the solutions. By referring to the relevant literature on traditional Chinese medicine, the problems existing in the whole process from raw materials to the processing of traditional Chinese medicine are analyzed to find corresponding solutions. Through the research of this paper, it is found that although traditional Chinese medicine has some influence on the surrounding environment in the process of industrialization, the improvement of the curative effect of the medicine is still obvious, and it has made a huge contribution to the improvement of the national health level.