1. Introduction
Antagonistic storage has been used as one of the historic conservation
methods in the traditional Chinese medicine. It has been
known that some kinds of insect pests could be effectively avoided,
when medicinal materials vulnerable to insects were deposited
with certain medicinal herbs which could release special odor.
Since some embarrassing problems arise as the synthetic insecticides
have been widely used during the past decades, the concept
of the traditional antagonistic storage have been re-mentioned
and drew more and more attention recently (You et al., 2015). To
inherit the traditional stored method and develop new schemes