Dr. Tran Thi Thuy, Director of Management for the Elderly Healthcare Project collectively run by the Vietnam Association of Traditional Medicine and the Vietnam Association of the Elderly, mentioned that creating medicinal sources is a strategic activity.
The Politburo’s Resolution 72-NQ/TW on breakthrough solutions to strengthen the safety, care and enchancment of public well being clearly states the necessity for mechanisms to unlock the potential of medicinal sources, speed up planning, and develop standardized medicinal herb cultivation areas.
Thuy mentioned conventional medicine holds many worthwhile cures, and Vietnam is proud of its long-standing conventional medical heritage. Through state insurance policies, efforts will concentrate on advancing conventional medicine within the new context, particularly creating and preserving high-quality and uncommon medicinal sources.
Nguyen Thi Anh Nguyet, inventor and General Director of DDA Vietnam Investment JSC, mentioned Vietnam’s herbal sources are extraordinarily worthwhile medicinal supplies, already acknowledged in pharmacopeias and medical reference books.
Their uniqueness comes from soil situations and pure environments throughout areas. Each space has distinctive medicinal vegetation with properties that, in lots of instances, surpass these present in different international locations. However, these benefits haven’t been exploited in an optimum and complete manner.
In explicit, extraction and utilization linked with fashionable science and technology stay restricted, falling brief of the sector’s inherent worth and benefits.
Driven by a ardour and aspiration to raise the worth of Vietnamese medicinal herbs, over the previous 12 years, Nguyet and her colleagues, who’re deeply dedicated to Vietnam’s herbal sources, have persistently pursued analysis, repeatedly creating and refining a number of product traces.
New technology
Nguyet and her crew have pioneered the applying of science and technology to optimize the medicinal properties of Vietnamese herbs.
To date, from their herbal analysis course of, the crew has obtained one invention patent granted by the Intellectual Property Office (Ministry of Science and Technology) titled “A process for producing an organic alkaline solution that reduces unpleasant odors and color through a simple process suitable for industrial application.”
At the identical time, they’ve utilized selective extraction technology to isolate alkaline elements and helpful medicinal compounds from worthwhile Vietnamese herbs similar to da cam (Hedyotis capitellata), ban chi lien (Scutellaria barbata D. Don), xa den (Celastrus hindsii Benth), hoan ngoc (Pseuderanthemum palatiferum (Nees) Radlk) and bo cong anh (Lactuca indica L.), creating the herbal alkaline product Sflora.
This technology allows the extraction and activation of molecules from herbs to supply an answer with a excessive alkaline pH stage (13–14) fully derived from medicinal vegetation, whereas preserving their pure medicinal properties.
The work is thought to be one of the notable efforts to boost the worth of conventional Vietnamese medicinal vegetation and affirm Vietnamese mental capability in science and technology utilized to medicinal herbs.
Dr. Le Quang Minh, former Head of the Advisory Department of the Health Bureau (Ministry of Public Security), mentioned that it’s time for these working in conventional medicine, particularly conventional pharmacy, to handle the use of science and technology in analysis and manufacturing.
It can also be vital to advertise the use of home uncooked supplies to be in a position to management the provision, cut back dependence on imported supplies, and improve the trade’s autonomy.
Minh additionally praised the analysis on natural alkali derived from herbs as a serious step ahead in utilizing the nation’s wealthy medicinal sources to supply merchandise which might be near customers.
Supportive insurance policies for companies
Nguyet mentioned with difficulties in capital, infrastructure, and entry to land, science and technology enterprises significantly want assist similar to land lease reductions or company earnings tax exemptions/reductions. This will assist enhance analysis actions and scale up the commercial manufacturing of medicinal merchandise within the coming time.
To exploit the potential of the medicinal herb trade, Minh mentioned that certified analysis groups with clear analysis orientations are wanted, in addition to technology that produces good merchandise.
The State must create favorable situations and have good mechanisms so that companies and scientists dare to speculate and conduct analysis on the manufacturing of medicinal merchandise.
Thanh Hai