Doctors practicing traditional Chinese medicine said Huangqin effectively clears away heat and toxins. It is being used in more than 40 per cent of traditional Chinese medical prescriptions. It can be used for the treatment of pneumonia, infection of the respiratory tract, hypertension, nephritis and hepatitis. The Huangqin space seed project is expected to take four years to complete. So far, China has successfully launched space-seed breeding projects involving 51 varieties of crops.
China is now among the world ' s leaders in biological medical research.
The country, next to the United States, Germany and Japan, is now the fourth in the world to have succeeded in recombining through gene cloning technology, a human hormone for booting growth of red blood cells. The medicine, having been approved for trial production by the Ministry of Health recently, puts an end to dependency on imported products and is much cheaper in price, meaning that more and more Chinese patients may have access to this world top-grade technical product and lead a fuller life as a result, said Ma Yonghua, an official with the Administration Office on Research and Development of New Drugs of the State Science and Technology Commission. EPO levels are reduced when people suffer kidney failure and this results in anaemia. Statistics suggest that the incidence rate of chronic nephritis is about 2.5 of 1,000 people each year in China, and that a majority of them will develop kidney failure. There are currently 1 million kidney failure patients in the country, most of them also suffering anaemia.