Privately run Rangsit University or RSU has set up a factory to produce herbal medicines in collaboration with a Chinese institute of higher education.
Privately run Rangsit University has entered an agreement with Heilongjiang University to collaborate on research to prove the effectiveness and safety of herbal medicines in the treatment of five diseases, including diabetes, gout and insomnia.
The move, it believes, will pave the way for Thai herbal medicines to tap into the global market.
The collaboration between university and Heilongjiang University had already led to the establishment of the Sun Herb Thai Chinese Manufacturing factory.
This factory will produce herbal medicines in line with Good Manufacturing Practice standards.
The factory is one of 500 herbal-medicine manufacturing facilities across Thailand, and the first to be operated by a university.
