Located in Tselgungthang Township of Chengguan District of Lhasa City, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, the artificial cultivation base of endangered Tibetan herbs aims to satisfy the growing demand for Tibetan medicine.

Covering an area of 210 mu (1mu=667 square meters), the artificial cultivation base of endangered Tibetan herbs is founded by the Tibetan Medicine Research Institute of the Tibetan Medicine Hospital of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

In the base dozens of Tibetan herbs species have been studied to cultivate artificially, among which researchers have gained success in seven species' basic technical system of artificial cultivation and seed breeding technology, including rheum tanguticum, veronica ciliate, herba dracocephali tangutici, sinopodophyllum hexandrum, Tibet inula root, Tibet green fritillaria and lonicera maackii.

As long as the medicinal composition identification of the artificially cultivated Tibetan herbs gains success, they would be promoted to local farmers to bring more incomes.

Modern facilities are also used in the base, such as sprinkling irrigation or trickle irrigation to save water, and the researchers also wish to use Internet of Things technology to study Tibetan herbs more scientifically.

In recent years Tibetan medicine becomes more and more favored at home and abroad, thus the Tibetan herb resources can't keep up with the demand. In order to satisfy the demand, Tibetan Medicine Hospital of the Tibet Autonomous Region founded Tibetan Medicine Research Institute in 2003 and was devoted to the artificial cultivation technology of endangered medicinal herbs.

Photo shows the blooming Tibet inula root cultivated in the artificial cultivation base of endangered Tibetan herbs. [Photo/ China Tibet Online]

Photo shows that Lhachung, in-residence technician from the Nin Jiom Company, presents a fritillaria cirrhosa. The company and Tibetan Medicine Hospital of the Tibet Autonomous Region have reached an agreement on the key technologies of fritillaria cirrhosa's artificial cultivation, as well as large scale planting, promotion and industrialized purchase, so that the herbs artificially planted by local farmers could be purchased by the company. [[Photo/ China Tibet Online]

Photo shows the herba dracocephali tangutici cultivated in the artificial cultivation base of endangered Tibetan herbs. [Photo/ China Tibet Online]

Photo shows the staff in the artificial cultivation base of endangered Tibetan herbs. [Photo/ China Tibet Online]

Photo shows the modern irrigation facilities used in the artificial cultivation base of endangered Tibetan herbs. [Photo/ China Tibet Online]