Category Herb Sourcing Guides

Sour jujube seed — Ziziphi Spinosae Semen, Suan Zao Ren (酸枣仁) — is a high-value herbal seed with a documented adulteration risk. For bulk buyers that means a quotation alone tells you very little. This guide covers the three parameters…

Dried tangerine peel — chen pi (陈皮) — is one of the few Chinese herbs priced by age as much as by grade. Two lots with the same appearance on a price list can sit far apart depending on the…

Most private label tea projects for the US market arrive with a wish-list formula: a sleep blend with ashwagandha and valerian, a focus blend with ginkgo and guayusa, a “glow” tea with edible gold dust. Before we quote, we check…

Not every Chinese herb can be exported freely. Some are quota-managed, some fall under protected-species controls, while most are unrestricted. Export status should be confirmed at the specification stage, before a formula is finalized or a quotation is accepted. This…

“Pharmacopoeia grade” is not a universal certification for Chinese herbs. In B2B sourcing, buyers should confirm the applicable pharmacopoeia, exact botanical material, plant part, processing status, testing scope, acceptance criteria and batch-specific evidence before accepting a pharmacopoeial compliance claim. A…

A purchase specification answers what the material is. It does not answer whether the material can legally leave China and enter the destination market. For most Chinese herbal materials those two questions never separate — ordinary export documentation covers it.…

Licorice root slices are among the most widely traded botanical materials in the world. The commercial name, however, does not define the raw material — and for a buyer who has to defend a specification to a regulator or an…

Astragalus Root Slices: Buyer Summary Astragalus Root Slices are a dried botanical raw material. The material is the dried root of an Astragalus species, cleaned, cut into slices and dried for commercial use. In Chinese trade it is called Huang…

Bulk Cassia Seed purchasing requires a clear specification, not only a product name. Before requesting a quotation, buyers should confirm botanical identity, plant part, processing status, physical form, testing scope, approved sample and batch documentation. These checkpoints give both buyer…

Dou Kou — also sold as round cardamom, white cardamom or Chinese cardamom — is the dried fruit of Amomum kravanh or Amomum compactum. It is not the green cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) traded as a culinary spice. Bulk buyers should…