Friday, January 2, 2009

Modern TCM industry



Tasly takes great efforts in the constant betterment and improvement of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) in controlling quality by selecting the seeds, supervising the growing environment, managing the plantations, harvesting, packaging, storage, transportation and employee management.

Tasly's products have won recognitions of national GMP, Australian TGA, ISO9001, ISO10012, ISO14001, OHSAH18001, and GB/T28001. Also, Tasly adopts IMS, and become the pioneering enterprise that integrates quality, environment and safety onto one management system. All these achievements enable Tasly to strive toward industrial scales economy and to build up a stout platform for modern TCM industry.

Tasly's products had met various International Quality Standards such as below;

1. GAP (Good Agriculture Practice)
First drafted and adopted by EMEA in 1998, GAP is a quality controlling and processing standard for herbal planting. It monitors the quality stability and safety of raw materials. GAP is a general standard, incorporating standard operating procedures (SOP) standards for each medicinal ingredient. This is the first stage of TCM production.

2. GEP (Good Extraction practice)
The GEP process covers extraction, condensation, chromatography, extraction, crystallization, filtration, drying, etc. Adopting strict GEP rule is of extreme important not only to influence and ensure stability of the medicine's quality but also for improvement of its healing effect. The GEP standard embodies. Chinese medical characters of balance and integrity and borrow from Western medicine the emphasis on individual and digital quality standard during each production step. This is the second stage on TCM production.

3. GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)
Since its introduction in 1975, GMP has been used both as the basic principles for modern medical management, production, and guarantee for the standardization of pharmaceutical products. Medical production consists of many complex steps, all of which should be monitored strictly in order to avoid medical polluting and mixing. GMP, is an effective way of quality control management of production processes, and is the third stage in TCM production.

4. GCP (Good Clinical Practice)
GCP is the standard regulation for clinical experimental. The purpose for this is to ensure the standardization of clinical experiment and maintain stability of the results as well as the safeguarding of the patients. As early as 1986 China began to get involved in GCP development and on Sept. 1st. 1999, management and regulation on GCP came into being.

5. GLP (Good Laboratory Practice)
GLP regulates experiment design, operation, data, reporting, supervision and the laboratory environment. It sets up rules for the organization, staffs members', experimental apparatus and materials, as well as operational standards, plans and files. This standard serves to guarantee the reliability of medical security accessing data through the strict regulation on the above-mentioned processes.

6. GSP (Good Supply Practice)
GSP is an indispensable part of quality and safety control. It prevents the possibilities of accidents due to inferior quality. GSP was issued by the State Drug and Food Administration on April 30th, 2000, and was implemented on July 1st of the same year. This is the first administrative regulation with cohesiveness and also the first to be adopted within legislation.

So Tasly control the quality by selecting the seeds, supervising the growing environment, managing the plantation, harvesting, packaging, storage, and transportation and management of employees. Tasly have become the pioneering enterprise that integrated quality, environment and safety into ine fully integrated modernized management system.

TASLY - CREATING HEALTH ACHIEVING FUTURE






Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)


With a history dating back 2,000 to 3,000 years, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practices have successfully formulated and created an unique system to diagnose and cure illness. The TCM approach adopts a fundamentally different stance from that of Western medicine. In TCM, the understanding of the human body is based on the holistic understanding of the universe as described in Taosim, and the treatment of illness is based primarily on the diagnosis and differentiation of syndromes.

The TCM approach treats zang-fu organs as the core of the human body. Tissues and organs are connected through a network of channels and blood vessels inside the human body. Qi (or Chi) acts as some kind of carrier of information that is expresses externally through jingluo system. Pathologically, a dysfunction of the zang-fu organs may be reflected on the body surface through the network, and likewise, diseases of body surface tissues may also affect their related zang or fu organs. Affected zang or fu organs may also influence each other analysis of the entire system, then focuses on the correction of pathological changes through readjusting and harmonizing the functions of the zang-fu organs.

Evaluation of a syndrome not only includes the cause, mechanism, location and nature of the disease but also its confrontation effects between the pathogenic factor and body resistance. Treatment is not based only on the symptoms but differentiation of syndromes. Therefore, those with an identical disease may be treated in different ways. On the other hand, different diseases may result in the same syndrome and are treated in similar ways.

The clinical diagnosis and treatment in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practices are mainly based on the concept of yin-yang and the five elements theories. These theories apply the phenomena and laws of nature to the study of the physiological activities and pathological changes of the human body and its interrelationships. The typical TCM therapies include acupuncture, herbal medicine and qigong exercises. With acupuncture, treatment is accomplished by stimulating certain areas of the external body. Herbal medicine acts on zang-fu organs infernally, while qigong tries to restore the orderly harmonization flows inside the body's internal network through the regulation of Qi. these therapies appear very different in approach yet they all share the same underlying sets of assumptions and insights into the nature of the human body and its place in the universe. Some scientists describe the treatment of diseases through herbal medication, acupuncture and qigong as an 'information therapy'.