Then a series of negative media reports on Chinese herbal medicines brought Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to a low ebb in 2006. The reports focused on concerns about problems with the ingredients of "two immortals" (tortoise shell and deer horn) jelly and about the presence of pesticides and lead in gentian liver-draining decoction.
直到 2006 年，媒體出現一連串中草藥的負面報導，質疑「龜鹿二仙膠」成分有問題，「龍膽瀉肝湯」有農藥殘留、含鉛量過高……，使得中藥業陷入一片慘澹。