Take, for instance, the Taichung City Herbal Medicine Research Society, which is the oldest of these groups. It had only 20-some-odd members when it was founded 13 years ago. Now its member-ship has already surpassed 1000, with more than 100 new members joining in each of the last two years.
以成立最久的「台中市藥用植物研究會」為例，十三年前成立時僅二十餘名會員，到今年為止已近一千人。