2019 Volume 73 Issue 1 Pages 16-35
The survey on the kind, amount and producing countries of crude drugs for medicinal use was conducted among member companies belonging to Japan Kampo Medicines Manufacturers Association in fiscal 2015 and 2016. The results showed that total amount of use and number of items of crude drugs were 26,369 tons of 266 items in 2015, and 26,784 tons of 264 items in 2016. In a comparison of production ratios among countries, Japan, China and the other countries produced 10.1%, 79.5% and 10.4% of total amount of use in 2015, respectively. Similarly, each ratio turned to 10.7%, 77.0% and 12.3% in 2016.
In respect to the survey collected in the same manner from 2008 to 2016, the total amount of crude drug usage has been increasing gradually for 9 years.
