National Medicinal Plants of the basic structure of an early warning system_0.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 13 National Medicinal Plants of the basic structure of an early warning system [Keywords:] medicinal plant resources, early warning systems, databases With the development of life sciences and the acceleration of global economic integration, traditional Chinese medicine resources and the pharmaceutical industry more and more popular around the world. People’s increasing awareness of self-care, “return to nature”, from natural plants and traditional drugs for medical and health awareness of increasingly strong, the demand of medicinal plant resources is also growing. Therefore, specific solutions to a range of issues medicinal plant resources has become urgent to resolve the outstanding focus. Because of the lack of resources, effective conservation, sustainable use and monitoring of early warning measures, China’s medicinal plant resources has been severely damaged. World Conservation Union (IUCN) 2004 年 11 released last month lt;lt;Endangered Species Red List “shows that the rate of species extinction now than simply the natural state 1000 times faster [1]. There are many resources of medicinal plants and animals tend to decline or endangered species status is. lt;”China Plant Red Data Book - Rare and Endangered Plants” (Book) gathers 354 species of plants, 168 kinds of medicinal plants [2], some have been included in the lt;”State protection List of wild herbsgt;gt; and lt;lt;in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora International Trade Convention “(CITES) Appendix in [3]. Therefore, strengthening the early warning systematic study of medicinal plant resources, establish a sound early warning and monitoring system for traditional Chinese medicine resources and resource protection network to ensure that the medicine the rational collection and use of resources to meet the social and economic development of the growing Chinese demand for resources is essential and urgent. A medicinal plant resources of the basic structure