With comprehensive analysis of legislation categories, concepts and usage from various countries, plant extracts can be accepted and recognized. It also becomes the universal common expression for spreading herbs for many countries. Exports value of Chinese plant extracts is bigger than the exports of Chinese medicines in 1999.In Europe and the Untied States, plant extracts and its products have broad market prospect. It has developed into a new industry with annual sales of nearly $ 8,000,000,000 according to plant extract manufacturer’s data.

China's plant extracts are general intermediate products. Currently, the application has s a very wide range. They are mainly for drugs, health food, tobacco, cosmetics, raw materials or accessories, etc. Types of plants for the extraction of raw materials is also very much. There are more than 300 kinds listed into the plant varieties of industrial extraction.

Well known in the history of human civilization, most of the time about 200 years ago, mankind has been dependent on traditional medicines (including botanicals) struggle with the disease for more than 90%. Major ancient civilization and a certain degree of civilization of the nation almost has its own national medical care system, especially China's most comprehensive Chinese medicine system, the biggest achievement. It can be declared that the Chinese medicine system is the highest expression for ancient medical science.

Plant extracts and botanicals in the connotation of the concept of cross-cutting each other with each other part. Modern herbal medicine is the plant extract is the main raw material and components of the modern herbal extract-based, to a large extent; and some items of plant extracts were directly as a medicinal. Worldwide, there is no uniform definition of plant medicine. But the western countries are accustomed to herbal medicine known as a natural medicine. Natural medicine refers to everything from nature, for the treatment of diseases without chemical treatment drugs. Traditional Chinese medicine and herbal medicine should listed in its areas.

Germany’s modern herbal medicine refers to the selected plant extracts in the treatment. It can be whole extract of the plant or part of the extract. It is usually a composite of chemical substances. Germany defined herbals as medicines from 1976. This definition has been use by the pharmaceutical raw materials suppliers of American botanical council.

EC defined herbal products as not just a single medicinal plant. It may be compatible with a variety of herbals, containing the active ingredient of specific plants or plant extracts. The herbal plants are used in medical supplies. Herbal medicine and its products are considered to be pharmaceutical products with unclear active ingredient or ingredients of therapeutic effect. The vegetable dyes are belonging to plant extracts. It is extracted from the pigment dye plant. It is a safe and environmentally friendly natural dye. The pigment is mainly used in food and daily chemical industry. The dyes are used for the textile industry.Source:http://www.cospcn.com