硫磺熏蒸中药材问题历史文献考察

针对近期硫磺熏蒸中药材问题日益凸显乃至严重化的现状,通过对古今各类文献的考察梳理,大致追溯了硫磺熏蒸中药材的当代、近现代和古代的历史脉络。发现我国利用硫磺熏蒸来实现对物品增白杀虫的目的至少有4个世纪的悠久历史,将其应用于药材的加工也有至少1个多世纪的时间,硫熏工艺在中药材加工中的逐步广泛应用也大概始于20世纪初,到20世纪后半叶才开始出现滥用的趋势。所以,硫磺熏蒸中药材并不是自古就有的中药材加工方法,应该寻求更好的方法以逐步淘汰硫熏工艺。

A Historical Literature Search of the Sulfur Fumigation Issue of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicines

Recently Sulfur fumigation issue of Chinese herbal medicines has become increasingly prominent and serious.This paper roughly traces the contemporary,modern and ancient historical sequence of sulfur-fumigated traditional Chinese herbal medicines by a searching and combing work through various types of literature,including The Chinese Pharmacopoeia,relevant norms of Chinese herbal medicines work,research papers,and ancient writings,etc.This paper found that the use of sulfur fumigation for the purpose of whitening and insecticide in china began four centuries ago;the processing applied to Chinese herbal medicines also has a history at least more than a century of time.The widely use of sulfur fumigation in Chinese herbal medicine processing probably began in the early twentieth century,and the trend of perverted use began to appear in about the second half of 20th century.So sulfur fumigation is not the traditional Chinese medicine processing method since ancient times,we should be looking for better ways to phase out sulfur fumigation process.This literature search can provide references for further study on fumigation research of Chinese herbal medicines and also the development of related standards.