Traditional Chinese medicine and agriculture; organic life and sustainability for future

Hesam Shahrajabian Mohamad,Sun Wenli,Cheng Qi

doi:10.30574/gscbps.2019.7.1.0052

Abstract

Sustainability is a long-term and wide-ranging concept that requires producers to look to the future as well as the present, and consider both global and local situations. Cultivation of Chinese medicinal herbs and usage of traditional Chinese medicine significantly helps to promote sustainable agricultural development via growing demand for organic and herbal products in different regions. Chinese medicinal plants, both endemic and widespread, must be preserved since these plants could be renewable source for new drugs. Some advantages of organic farming of medicinal plants are to produce material in optimal quality and sufficient quantity, to protect medicinal plants against pests and disease, to maintain the genetic diversity of medicinal plants, the enhance the biosynthesis of efficacious substances, to increase growth rate and biomass yield of medicinal plants. On the basis of economic prospects, organic farming may lead to increase more market opportunity, to maintain high market price, to achieve optimal quality and economic returns and to secure economic growth and social stability. Traditional Chinese medicine plays an important role in sustainable agriculture and food systems, it also offers a holistic approach to prevent diseases while making appropriate use of organic and herbal products especially growth by small-scale family farmers.

Highlights

It has been reported that China is the native home to a greater diversity of the world’s herbal plants than any other regions in the world
China has historical relationship with medicinal plant for more than 2000 years, and it was demonstrated by medicinal herbs which have been found in the Mawangdui tombs of Hinan province that is related to 186 B.C
traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) theory has the character of holism, and is told mainly by concepts related to Chinese philosophy and culture

Summary

Introduction

It has been reported that China is the native home to a greater diversity of the world’s herbal plants than any other regions in the world. Agronomic management like crop rotation, organic growing methods and using plants propagated from sprouted seeds could be use for Chinese medicinal herbs. While many companies and farmers choose to spend time and higher price for organic food production, the appropriate management of pesticide and herbicide use can be practiced in China and other regions.

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