Brands
Independent history pages, not brand-authored copy. Presented side by side, in no particular order of preference.
Hua Tuo Zai Zao Wan traces to physician Ran Xuefeng's family stroke remedy, donated to the state in the 1980s, and today is made by Baiyunshan Qixing — a house whose overseas retail listings, especially in Vietnam and Indonesia, consistently foreground its traditional stroke-recovery positioning more than most other brands on this site.
Lei Yun Shang traces to a Suzhou apothecary opened in 1734, holds one of the strongest national intangible-heritage listings among the houses on this site for its Liu Shen Wan technique, and today exists as a name shared by many separate companies split along a Suzhou/Shanghai historical line.
Shexiang Baoxin Wan is made by a company formed in 2001 as a modern joint venture, not a centuries-old time-honored house — its real historical chapter is a 1970s pharmacological redesign of a Song-dynasty formula ancestor, and it has this site's strongest international academic visibility alongside its thinnest overseas retail footprint.
Yunnan Baiyao traces to a 1902 formula created by Qu Huanzhang, holds official China Time-Honored Brand recognition, and has built the most developed formal overseas manufacturing and disclosure footprint of any house covered here — alongside a long-running public debate over ingredient disclosure in its US-sold products.
Dingkundan entered the Guangshengyi lineage's history in 1739, but has almost no measurable English search demand today — a case for market education, not organic-search entry.
Guangyuyuan's predecessor houses ran a real Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Nanyang trade network from the 1820s onward, peaking at 40,000 bottles of Guilingji exported in 1928 — but today's brand and website have almost no measurable overseas footprint.
Guilingji has been part of the Guangyuyuan lineage since its 1541 origin point, with a documented Nanyang export history — but very small modern English search demand.
Pien Tze Huang traces to a 1555 imperial-court-physician formula, was placed under China's state-secret formula protection in 1992, and reaches overseas markets mainly through export and third-party retail rather than an official consumer website.
Founded in Beijing in 1669, Tong Ren Tang runs a self-described 160+ store network across 26 countries and two official English websites — the most developed overseas footprint of the three houses on this site — and shares the Angong Niuhuang Wan product category with Guangyuyuan.