Research On Good Agricultural Practices Of Dendrobium Officinale

Dendrobium officinale Kimura et Migo is first recorded in the first pharmaceutical worksShennong’s Herbal in ancient China, it is listed as the leader of ‘The nine to immortality’ by theCollected Taoist Scriptures1000years ago; it is included in Chinese Pharmacopoeia alone in2010; theannual output value of Dendrobium officinale exceeds30billion in2011, and becomes one of thelargest health products on production and sales in domestic; but the standard of Dendrobium officinalelags obviously. Therefore, this article emphatically focused on the standardization technology byreferring to literatures and studying tests, and obtained the main results as follows:1、This specification regulates all factors of Dendrobium officinale, including the growingconditions, cultivar, seedling breed, cultivation stroma, production management, pests control, andoperation rules as precision harvest, dry, fresh goods preservation, packing, storage, transportation,quality testing, quality management and so on. It applied to standardized cultivation of fresh goods anddry goods (Tin bucket) of Dendrobium officinale as medicinal and health food raw materials.2、This specification raised4cultivation modes for the first time, including epiphytic on treescultivation model, under forest cultivation model, pot model, efficient artificial cultivation mode.Epiphytic on trees cultivation model refers to the natural growth trees as carrier, under forest cultivationmodel refers to the natural growth forest environment as carrier, pot model refers to flower pots orcontainers as tool, efficient artificial cultivation mode refers to creating artificial growth environment toguarantee the shade and water control so that is suitable for the growth of Dendrobium officinale.3、This specification raises the best harvest time of Dendrobium officinale is before the blossom ofbiennial or triennial trees. The requirement for the harvest time of Dendrobium officinale as herbalmedicine in2010Chinese Pharmacopoeia is ‘harvest from November to next March’. Thisspecification discovered that polysaccharide content of biennial or triennial Dendrobium officinale inZhejiang reached its highest level from April to June, before the blossom.