What is the most honorable thing during the Chinese New Year? Many people would think of it as having a good glass of wine. But in the southern coastal areas, soaking a piece of Pien Tze Huang in mineral water is the most respectable. At present, the price of Pien Tze Huang, which has a history of 400 years, has risen to 590 yuan per pill. What is the reason why it is so crazy? With a history of 400 years, Pien Tze Huang is a household name in the south

There are three treasures in Fujian that are famous all over the world, namely Shoushan stone, Pien Tze Huang and oolong tea. Shoushan stone and oolong tea are definitely well known to everyone, but many friends in the north may not know what Pien Tze Huang is. In Fujian, Pien Tze Huang is a must-have medicine for every household, similar to the status of isatis root in our hearts.

The history of Pien Tze Huang can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. It is said that during the Jiajing period, an imperial doctor in the Taiyuan Hospital had to escape from the capital because he offended the powerful minister Yan Song, and ended up in Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province. In a small temple on Puyuan Mountain, he kept his name anonymous and became a monk.

The folk customs in southern Fujian have always been tough, and the local people advocate martial arts, so bruises and injuries often occur. At that time, there was a shortage of doctors with skilled medical skills in the countryside. When people had difficult-to-treat diseases, they would go to the Puyuan Mountain Temple to seek medical advice.

According to the secret recipe of the palace, the imperial physician carefully prepared the "Puyuan Eight Treasure Pills" and gave them to the people, and passed on the prescription to the previous abbots of the temple.

The Eight Treasure Pill is made from eight precious medicinal materials. The effect was remarkable after being taken by the people nearby, and it instantly became famous. After that, Babao Dan also began to be mass-produced and placed on consignment at the teahouse at the foot of the mountain. However, the prescription has still been passed down to the temple abbots for generations.

Until the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, the temple collapsed due to disrepair, and the monks in the temple also looked for other ways. After Shi Yanhou, the host at that time, returned to secular life, he took the prescription to a teahouse at the foot of the mountain and began to produce the Pien Tze Huang Eight Treasure Pills under the Monk Mao brand.

After liberation, the tea house was merged into the Zhangzhou Pharmaceutical Factory, and Shi Yanhou’s descendants also contributed the secret recipe to the government. Pien Tze Huang has become a specialty product of Zhangzhou Pharmaceutical Factory, and Pien Tze Huang's reputation has spread to various places at home and abroad with the flow of people. 590 yuan per pill, why is Pien Tze Huang so expensive?

Pien Tze Huang is now sold online for 590 yuan per pill, weighing only 3 grams, and costs nearly 200 yuan per gram. The official price of Feitian Moutai is 1,499 yuan per bottle, 3 yuan per milliliter. If Moutai is a money printing machine, compared with Pien Tze Huang, Moutai is tap water.

The reason why Pien Tze Huang is so expensive has a lot to do with its ingredients. Traditional Babao Pills are composed of eight precious medicinal materials. The current Pien Tze Huang instructions include four ingredients: Panax notoginseng, snake gall, bezoar, and natural musk.

Among them, natural musk is the main reason for the sky-high price of Pien Tze Huang. Musk mainly comes from musk deer. Musk is a pheromone or information compound secreted and stored in the scent glands and sachets growing under the abdomen of male musk deer. Each musk deer can only secrete about 50g, which is extremely precious.

The annual production volume of Pien Tze Huang is about 2.2 million tablets, which requires 225 kilograms of natural musk. Subtracting losses and musk that does not meet production needs, assuming that each musk deer can produce 20 grams of musk, then 11,000 musk deer can meet Pien Tze Huang's production capacity needs.

Bezoar and snake gallbladder are also valuable Chinese medicinal materials. Bezoar is a gallbladder stone of cattle and is also very rare. One gram of natural bezoar can be sold for more than 200 yuan. Of course, most medicines now use artificial bezoars, and natural bezoars are very rare.

Things are rare and expensive, and it is these expensive ingredients that determine the high price of Pien Tze Huang. In addition, some well-intentioned people speculated on it, which also contributed to the rise in Pien Tze Huang prices. What are the therapeutic effects of Pien Tze Huang?

Some medical experts have conducted clinical trials and found that Pien Tze Huang has unique effects on bruises, burns, and acute and chronic hepatitis. In 1988, an outbreak of hepatitis A occurred in Shanghai, and approximately 300,000 people were infected. Pien Tze Huang has become so hard to find that some people even exchanged a 17-inch color TV for three pills of Pien Tze Huang.

When China and Japan established diplomatic relations in 1972, Pien Tze Huang was presented as a "national gift" to the then Japanese Prime Minister.

Japanese medical organizations have even established a special Pien Tze Huang Research Association to conduct research on this magical oriental pill. So much so that the price of a pill of Pien Tze Huang on the black market in Japan at that time was at least eight to nine thousand yen. ?

In 2014, the famous movie star Liu Yifei also shared on Weibo that after she got dacryoadenitis, her doctor arranged to only take Pien Tze Huang. Pien Tze Huang Company also registered an account for this purpose, and interacted with Liu Yifei remotely to provide guidance on medication precautions.

Currently, only Zhangzhou Pien Tze Huang Pharmaceutical Factory in the world can produce Pien Tze Huang, and there are only three people who control the prescription and production process of Pien Tze Huang.

I believe that with the accumulation of hundreds of years of time-honored brands, Pien Tze Huang can do even greater things. Continuous innovation has led to the development of granular or decoction versions of Pien Tze Huang, and even other products, allowing more people to benefit and allowing more Chinese people to feel the charm of traditional Chinese medicine.