MYANMA Farm Enterprise launched two new traditional medicine
products on the market early this month, said an official from
the enterprise’s Mushroom Department.
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The medicines, lingseng capsules and lingzhi cough syrup, are
made from mushrooms.
“The enterprise’s aim is to make the medicines available
at prices lower than imports, and to produce them at a quality
high enough to export,” said Daw Soe Soe Thin, the executive
officer of the department.
She said 5000 bottles of lingzhi cough syrup and lingseng capsules
will be sold.
A bottle of 100 lingseng capsules costs K5000, half the price
of imports.
A 60-millilitre bottle of the department’s lingzhi cough
syrup costs K1000, while imports are priced at K1500.
Daw Soe Soe Thin said lingseng is effective for treating hypertension,
heart disease, chronic hepatitis and stress, and for maintaining
stamina. The new medicines have been safety tested by the Department
of Scientific and Technological Research, and the Department of
Traditional Medicine, Daw Soe Soe Thin said.
