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Guizhentang Pharmaceutical company

Guizhentang Pharmaceutical company
Founded December 18, 2000 (2000-12-18)
Headquarters Quanzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China
Number of locations
Hui'an County
Website http://www.gztxd.com

Guizhentang Pharmaceutical company (福建归真堂药业股份有限公司), known by the short name of Guizhentang (归真堂) is a company that profits from extracting bile out of Bile bears to make traditional Chinese medicine. The company is based in Fujian province of the People's Republic of China.

Guizhentang was established on December 18, 2000. In July 2004 it was approved by the State Food and Drug Administration. The company have been a success since. By 2010 it was paying some 10 million yuan in taxes.National People's Congress member Qiu Shuhua (邱淑花) is the creator of Guizhentang.

The company is a family-run business. It handles an extraction process which involves inserting a catheter into the bear's fistulas abdomen wounded gall bladder. Two of the products made with the extractions are bile bear powder and bile bear gelcaps medicine. The previous bile bear tea is no longer available for sale. According to company investor Zhang Zhi-yun (张志鋆), Guizhentang is in the business of selling one of the "Four great Chinese medicine" (四大名药) which consist of bear bile (熊胆), tiger bone (虎骨), musk (麝香) and rhinoceros horn (犀牛角). (This statement varies region by region, and may not be true)

The company said the bile extraction process has gone through three generations. In the first generation, a bear is killed and the bile is taken. In the second generation, techniques came from North Korea in 1984 where "live bears" are used. Tubes are stabbed into the bear for extractions. The third generation is the present techniques where the tubes are smaller, and there are other refinements.


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