The price of Ji'nan honeysuckle has risen nearly ten times.
"honeysuckle is too expensive. It used to be an ordinary Chinese medicine." 20, in a drug store near chessan street, Ji'nan, Ms. Wang, who came to collect medicine, was constantly sighing. As the amount of consumption increases, and suppliers may deliberately store up speculation, the price of honeysuckle in provincial capital has increased by nearly ten times, becoming a veritable "gold and silver" flower. On the 20 day of
, when visiting a number of drugstores in Ji'nan, every member of the staff interviewed was surprised by the recent increase in the price of honeysuckle. "Honeysuckle prices in Ji'nan early last year, only 40 yuan per kilogram, and later with the outbreak of H1N1 worth rising this year, with Southwest drought, is up badly, has recently risen to 350 yuan per kilogram." A person in charge of a large public pharmacy in Ji'nan has said that the price tag of honeysuckle has been changed four or five times this year, and the price tag has been raised.
reporter in Ji'nan other Chinese herbal medicine sales department learned that, restricted by the channels of purchase, the price of individual merchant honeysuckle up to 380 yuan per kilogram, many merchants confessed that at the beginning of this year, the drug dealers came to deliver goods, but the current situation is the medical sale of medicinal materials, after the outbreak of the flow of a stream, Consumers have an unprecedented enthusiasm for the purchase of honeysuckle and other drugs. The scene of the selling of honeysuckle in the drugstore is happening. The price of honeysuckle continues to rise because of the price instability and the tighter source of the goods.
the boss of the Chinese herbal medicine business in Ji'nan for more than 10 years revealed that the main reason for the rise of honeysuckle was that some drug dealers hoarding stock and hype, leading to the high price of honeysuckle. "Honeysuckle is not a very tight Chinese medicine, and now it has already been planted. Even if the flu has caused a big increase in demand, it is impossible to make the price rise." Fang Fang said, "there are more than 20 large suppliers of honeysuckle, which occupy more than 60% of the market. It is not impossible to manipulate prices."
the pharmacist of a three a hospital in the provincial capital told reporters that the price of Chinese medicine can not be limited by the price limit policy of Western medicine. Because Western medicine is a large-scale production of water, it can squeeze out the water in the middle and reduce the price of the medicine, but the Chinese medicinal materials are classified as agricultural and sideline products, under the planting environment, Price, cost and human factors restrict the price fixing policy.