Shopping Guide

 During your tour, you will want to buy local products as a memento of your trip or a gift for your friends and relatives. Jiuzhaigou , in addition to its natural beauty, will offer you large number of genuine and inexpensive local products.

    In this plant kingdom, there grow thousands of officinal plants, as Jiuzhaigou is one of the production bases of Sichuan that supplies medicinal materials. These plants are often used by local people because they are effective cure diseases.

    In China ,there are dozens kinds of bulb of fritillary bulbus fritillary, bulbus fritillary being most treasured ,and pine bulb fritillary the best of bulbus fritillary. It is used for patients of cough, lung and inflammatory diseases.

    A perennial herbage , it bursts out white blossoms in summer .Its root is used to invigorate the blood circulation ,kill pain ,regulate menoxenia ,and prevent miscarriage.

    It is used to stabilize qi and blood ,and also good to strengthen the heart function.

    Of a bit sweet taste, it is a compound of winged insects parasitic on larva remains. It is good for lung disease ,as well as bronchitis ,and intestinal ,womb and heart disease .It is also good as a tranquilizer ,inflammatory agent ,lessening cholesterol ,increasing blood sugar ,and suppressing tumor.

    It is a yellow-red fleshy single plant ,the root of which is used as a medicinal material .It is good for liver disease and headache.

    Sweet and icy ,it is good and constitutional to improve your overall health status ,used for patients of lung-phlegm disease ,hemoptysis ,weakness ,and dizziness .Local Tibetant process its stem ,leave and flower to make tea which is good to refresh ,release fatigue and lessen fever.

    Pungent ,a bit bitter ,it is good both as tranquilizer and a pain killer.

    Insipid and mild ,it is good to strengthen overall health ,used for patient of dizziness, insomnia, neurasthenia, hypertension, coronary disease ,high cholesterol ,hepatitis ,chronic bronchitis ,asthma, rheumatic arthritis and rhinitis.

    It is good for lung disease and nourishing yin/lung and supplement qi.

    Bitter and mild, it is good to strengthen overall health, regulate menoxenia. It is used for patients of snow blindness, toothache, rheumatic arthritis, impotentia, hemorrhage, leucorrhea. pelvic inflammation, and ab- domen psychroalgia.

    It is good to supplement qi and blood, nourish lung and arrest bleeding. It is used for patients of blood weakness, limb convulsion, lung weakness, cough, hemoptysis, hypertension pain, and constipation. Bearing-age and pregnant women are not advised to lake it.

    It grows at an altitude up to 3.600 meters, in alpine meadows. A bit bitter and icy, it is good to lessen inflammation, tranquilize, wet and nourish lung and supplement yin, lessen liver inflammation, it is used for patients of heliosis, emotional lever, yin weakness, lung fever, cough, neurasthenia, and hypertension.

    Its column head is a medicinal material, good for blood circulation, expelling phlegm, pain-killing, and womb- activating, hypotensive activity.

    Its bark is a medicinal material, so arc its flower bud, fruit and seed. It is good to lessen fever and inflammation, used for patients of chest and belly dis-tending pain, regurgitation. indigestion, phlegm cough, rheumatism, und dysentery.

    An important medicinal material, it is good for liver and kidney disease, miscarriage prevention, used for patients of waist and knee pains, urinary incontinence. itching of the secret pans, and hypertension.

    The Class-Ill state-protected plant, it is good as a painkiller, for lessening fever, activating blood circulation, expelling chill, and attesting cough. It is used for patients of rheumatic pains, cough, stomachache, womb hemorrhage, muscle/bone injury, and snakebite, and detoxicant. It is also good to lessen cancer tumor. Its fruit is used for patients of cough, breath disease, and short breath.

    The Class-Ill state-protected plant, it is of bio-alkali at its tuber. good for inflammation, pain, rheumatism, muscle/bone injury, toothache, sore, swelling, ant) snakebite.

    A Class - Ⅲ state-protected plant, it is of fine therapeutic functions. Its tuber contains various saponin base, effective, to certain extern, to dizziness, hypertension, neurasthenia, muscle/bone injury, waist and leg pains.

    It is good for angiocardiopathy, improving the blood circulation of coronary artillery, lessening the cholesterol, used for patients of respiratory diseased, like phlegm cough, good for activating suppressing activity of stomach juice and proteinase of the digestive system, and surface gastritis.

    According to foreign sources, its seed oil can improve metabolism and help to head wounds, and it can serve as a tranquilizer.

    Its fruit is tanned, rich in the content of salt of organic acid. When ripe, its fruit can be made into foodstuff.

    Its root is good to strengthen overall health, improve blood circulation and menstruation. It is used for patients of hypertension, dizziness, tinnitus, weakness, menoxenia, milk insufficiency, rheumatic joint pains, muscle/bone injury. Its flower is also used to expel rheumatism, relieve cough, dizziness, tinnitus, weakness, lung disease, cough, and infantile indigestion.

    It smells faint scent, and tastes a bit bitter then sweet. It is used to relieve fever and inflammation, tranquilize the mind and expel phlegm.

    Its tender tuber is edible. Powder extracted from its tuber is a nutritious foodstuff. It contains many favorable elements, and used to relieve fever and inflammation, as a repellent, and for hypertensive activity.

    It is used to improve spleen, lung and intestine functions, good o relieve cough and arrest phlegm, used for patients of spleen and stomach weakness, indigestion, excessive phlegm and short breath. Folk families use it as a kind of food.

    A treasure of Tibetan art, it is painted with mineral and plant pigments.

    Sharp, it is homemade in simple and exquisite styles.
Other Tibetan artware includes Tibetan paper and Ti betan joss stick.

    Delicately homemade by local women, it is of strong ethnic features, often done on handbags, hats and wall hangings.

    There are bone, wood, stone, jade and horn carvings. You may sometimes find valuable antiques of carving in Jiuzhaigou.

    They are mainly jadeware, cat's eye, crystal, Turkey stone, emerald, and coral.