First, the expensive one is the red-leaf anoectochilus roxburghii. Although the green leaves are not cheap, they are not extremely expensive.
There are two kinds of anoectochilus roxburghii, one is green and the other is red. The green leaf is a common anoectochilus roxburghii in the market, and its price is not too high. In the 1990s, its price was a kilo in 40 yuan, but now most of it is around 300-700 kilos, which is fresh, but even if it is fresh, it is very light. This anoectochilus roxburghii can be cultivated artificially, so its price is not too high. The price of green wild anoectochilus roxburghii is about a catty in 800 yuan at most, and it is not indistinguishable by ordinary people.
(Common anoectochilus roxburghii)
The anoectochilus roxburghii with red leaves is the one with high price, because it basically does not survive in cultivation, so most of it is wild. Even if some master planters have simulated the artificial environment, the technology will definitely be kept secret, and the price will definitely be in the hands of others. In the 1990s, it had already received a kilo from 400 yuan, which has now risen to 3,000 yuan a kilo, and 3,000 yuan a kilo is still valuable without a market.
(Golden Lotus with Red Leaves and No Market Value)
Second, the irregular operation of drug collectors.
In our country, there are many herbalists who have become monks halfway, that is, the kind of herbalists who will destroy the whole area. Since the 1990 s, Rhododendron japonicum, Bluegrass, Ganoderma lucidum, Panax notoginseng, Syzygium pentaphyllum, Prunus mume bark, Tung seed? They are all extinct picking, because they are poor, relying on mountains to eat mountains, and finally found something that can sell money, and did not leave it for picking next year.
(Anoectochilus roxburghii in the wild)
If it grows on a slope, dig it up by roots;
Those who grow on stone walls leave no moss near or far;
If you grow on a tree, that tree will not see the spring of the next year;
No roots are left in the reeds around the water's edge?
These herb pickers can't say they did something wrong. They are just afraid of poverty. Digging one more will cost them 70 cents more, and picking three taels will cost them more 1 block 2? In that era, these were replaced by children's tuition fees, old people's medicine fees, and fines for super-life?
You tell them about ecology, but they don't understand; You told them about species protection, but they didn't understand; You told them that picking herbs is the same as hunting, and you need to leave roots; They can understand that egg snakes don't catch, pregnant deer don't kill, seed fish don't kill, and wild boar with cubs don't hunt, but they don't understand and just spend flowers and plants. What is there to protect?
That is, during that time, many wild herbs were almost extinct everywhere in terms of medicine sources.
Third, anoectochilus roxburghii is not easy to cultivate artificially.
In artificial cultivation, only anoectochilus roxburghii with green leaves has been successfully cultivated, but anoectochilus roxburghii with red leaves has rarely succeeded. Even if the anoectochilus roxburghii was transplanted from the wild environment, it didn't take long to grow into a green leaf, which could not be overcome in the simulated growth environment of anoectochilus roxburghii for more than 30 years.
(Semi-simulated wild anoectochilus roxburghii)
Some cultivation bases brought back the whole rotten leaf field where wild anoectochilus roxburghii grew intact, and it only grew one crop of anoectochilus roxburghii. After harvesting, the leaves grew and slowly turned green. Although there are many anoectochilus roxburghii plants, there are still no anoectochilus roxburghii plants, so its price is rising.
Generally speaking, as far as the cultivation and cultivation of traditional Chinese medicine are concerned, there are still many wild environments that can't be simulated. Under the carelessness of farmers, there are still many precious Chinese herbal medicine plants disappearing, which is not only caused by the greed of people, but also the change of environment. It is quite difficult to stabilize the price of Chinese herbal medicine.