I was going to write Why I Don't Believe in Traditional Chinese Medicine, but I thought it was nonsense. Because it doesn't matter whether I believe it or not. This topic can reach the point of friendship in real life, so I didn't want to change other people. I just put the four words "Don't Believe in Traditional Chinese Medicine" in the title as a slogan.
Tell me about the example around me. About 20 years ago, my mother suffered from a disease. In fact, there is no good way to treat this disease. She can only be removed by surgery. But my father hoped for conservative treatment. He found relatives in the Chinese medicine hospital who had prescribed Chinese herbal medicine for about three or four months. I still remember very clearly that this medicine could not be boiled with ordinary well water, so the family always kept a bucket of mountain spring water at the foot of the mountain three or four miles away. As a result, it did not work, and the disease was so painful that it was not until five or six years later that the surgery completely ended the torture.
In 2010, my brother and I were together. At that time, my brother suffered from stomach disease and went to the hospital many times. Then he tried various stomach medicines like blind wine tasting. Finally, the stomach pain stopped after a medicine called "Sunflower" Weikangling, Many years later, I happened to see the formula of this medicine "Paeonia lactiflora, Rhizoma bletillae, Panax notoginseng, liquorice, poria cocos, corydalis, cuttlebone, belladonna extract. The auxiliary material is sodium bicarbonate". At that time, I had already known that "Chinese medicine is a lump of shit". I was very surprised that this was obviously Chinese medicine, but it cured my brother's stomach disease. How can I explain this?
I remembered a little story about metformin, which is a first-line drug for treating type 2 diabetes, especially for overweight patients. It is said that there was a traditional Chinese medicine made into capsules before, which has a wonderful effect on treating diabetes. It is said that the pure traditional Chinese medicine has no toxic and side effects. Those pharmacists think it's strange. Is it a new discovery at the level of one Nobel Prize? So I bought some medicine to open the capsule and analyze the ingredients of the medicine. It is true that there is no known chemical component that can lower blood sugar as advertised, but the patient can really lower blood sugar after taking this medicine. Finally, they found that the capsule wrapped with Chinese herbal powder was made of metformin.
Back to the Weikangling, I am not studying medicine, but through the logical deduction of Wikipedia and the current traditional Chinese medicine routines, I think the two ingredients that really work are "belladonna and sodium bicarbonate", the main component of belladonna atropine, and sodium bicarbonate to neutralize gastric acid (HCL)
Atropine exists in several solanaceous plants, such as belladonna , fairies, mandalas, and aubergine ginseng were separated for the first time in 1833. L-hyoscyamine is a natural configuration, and the racemic hyoscyamine obtained after extraction is atropine.
Atropine can alleviate the intestinal spasm caused by the excitation of parasympathetic nerve, inhibit the secretion of sweat glands and mucous glands, and inhibit vagus nerve, thus accelerating the heart rate, dilating the pupils, and relaxing the bronchi, intestines, and other smooth muscles. The intravenous dosage form of atropine can be used for first aid in case of bradycardia, and in case of organophosphorus pesticide and nerve gas poisoning, it can be combined with cholinesterase reactivators such as pralidoxime chloride to reduce secretion before tracheal intubation. In case of emergency, atropine can be given through endotracheal tube. The ophthalmic dosage form of atropine can dispel and paralyze the ciliary muscle, and avoid the adhesion of iris and lens in the case of iritis. The main indications are:
I think my brother's stomach disease in those days was generally: excessive gastric acid secretion.
But doesn't this example just show that Chinese medicine is effective? You see, belladonna is a kind of plant that humans use to cure diseases?
Human beings have indeed discovered some plants that can be used to treat diseases in their thousands of years of struggle against diseases. For example, 2400 years ago, humans discovered willow bark, which was used by ancient Greek physician Hippocrates to treat headaches, and poppy shells were first used to relieve pain and cough. Before modern medicine, a dead horse was a living horse doctor, and it was a last resort to cure the lucky, but with modern medicine, we know that the main component of belladonna is atropine, the chemical formula C17H23NO3, the main component of willow bark is acetylsalicylic acid, the chemical formula C9H8O4, and the main component of poppy shell is morphine, The chemical formula C17H19NO3, knowing how to eat these compounds, what amount, and what toxic and side effects they have, has done countless tests on mice, gone through the approved Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III clinical trials, and spent countless funds to draw conclusions, but you don't believe it, but you just believe those who read ancient prescriptions at home, and took 15 days to get inspired. Any toxic and side effects are unknown , and sincerely believe in treating patients before they get sick, one person for one party, and broad spirit. I really don't know anything.
For example, Lianhua Qingwen, whether it is useful or not, can be deduced only by logic. Xinguan has been in its third year. If it is useful and can prevent Xinguan, then we can seal a fart city and get a fart vaccine. It's so troublesome. One person can get a box of it.
In 1992, Wu Yiling founded Yiling Medicine. He improved the "Five Dragon Pill" to "Tongxinluo Capsule" and promoted it nationwide. With the help of an excellent sales team, Tongxinluo quickly occupied a market.
In 2003, SARS virus was rampant. Wu Yiling, as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and a representative of the pharmaceutical industry, has a heavy burden on his shoulders.
He led the team to immediately devote themselves to the prevention and treatment of SARS. After reading medical books day and night, he finally got nutrition from a large number of ancient prescriptions and developed Lianhua Qingwen Capsule.
According to the report of China Traditional Chinese Medicine News, this research and development process takes 15 days 。
Unfortunately, the drug for SARS virus research was not approved for marketing until 2004, when the haze of SARS had passed.
But when I saw Zhong Nanshan as its platform, even Tan Qindong, who had entered for Hongmao Pharmaceutical Wine, was also its platform. When the epidemic situation in Shanghai is so serious and the transportation capacity is so tight, many people can't even grab vegetables（ ái ）The Shanghai government can let everyone have a box. It is only felt that when people reach middle age, the most helpless thing is that the world has its own running track, and people don't know where it is going.
What I can do is only to tell the doctor that I am allergic to Chinese medicine, and to tell the salesperson of the pharmacy not to use Chinese medicine in advance.
