Are folk remedies credible?

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If people always hope that something new will come out one day to solve the old problems that everyone is worried about, it is really a big joke (or new inventions such as medical insurance and endowment insurance can be used). From this perspective, you will understand that no secret story is told to the world, and no effective secret recipe is known to everyone. Many times, some strange things and strange prescriptions are in the hands of the same strange individual because it is necessary. Different seeds can only germinate in different soils. People in China believe in folk remedies, and many people think of folk remedies first. Does folk prescription treat diseases? How effective is it? Let's explain it from a medical point of view.

Effective rate and cure rate of drugs

The drugs used in clinic are all verified by multi-phase clinical experiments. First, through cytological examination, it is found that a drug may have a therapeutic effect on a certain disease. But this is only the first step of the long March. There are many drugs that may not be suitable for the body after cytological verification. At this time, it is necessary to use zoology research. Commonly used medical animals are mostly mice or rabbits, and sometimes dogs (dog lovers dare not protest) and even monkeys are used. These drugs are used on animals to see if they are effective. If it is effective and proved to be safe, it cannot be used in clinic. After all, although animals and people are mammals, there are great differences.

So at this time, volunteers will be recruited to verify the efficacy and special side effects. These people are soldiers. After all, they don't know whether they are taking medicine or poisoning. After an experiment of these volunteers, if any serious side effects are found, they cannot be used in clinic. If the response of volunteers is good, the scope of volunteers should be expanded. This is a clinical trial. After many clinical trials, if it is found that the drug has no serious side effects and good curative effect, it can be used in clinical treatment.

The difference between effective rate and cure rate

The curative effect of treating diseases is generally divided into four grades, namely, clinical recovery, remarkable effect (improvement), effective and ineffective.

In the actual medical process, it is difficult for any drug to achieve the effective rate of 100%, let alone the recovery rate of 100%. Generally speaking, the clinical cure rate of drugs is about 20%. After medication, symptoms, signs and laboratory indicators were partially improved, and according to the degree of improvement, they were divided into improved and effective, and these patients accounted for 60% ~ 70%. It is "ineffective" only if the symptoms, physical photos and laboratory indicators are not improved or aggravated after taking the medicine.

The so-called effective rate, that is, the effective rate of drugs, includes not only the cure rate, but also the proportion of symptoms, signs or laboratory indicators improved after taking drugs. In other words, it is effective as long as the patient's condition improves after taking the medicine. Generally speaking, 100 people, if 90 people are effective after drug treatment, the effective rate is 90%. But the effective rate is not equal to the cure rate. After all, treatment is the pursuit of cure. Only 70 of these 90 effective people may eventually be cured, so the cure rate of this medicine is 70%. So we see that the cure rate of drugs is less than the effective rate in most cases. In other words, the effective rate is not the proportion of recovery. If the concepts of effective rate and cure rate are confused, the expectation of drug treatment effect will be too high.

Individual differences of human beings

There are billions of people in the world and billions of different situations. Therefore, it is difficult for a drug to adapt to everyone. Therefore, some drugs may have low efficiency and low cure rate, but they may be more effective for people with certain special constitutions. This is the individual difference. Although these drugs or remedies are effective for some special people, can they be used in clinic? No, because if these drugs are used in clinic, they will cause most problems and do more harm.

What is a folk prescription?

Judging from the name of folk prescription, it means not to take the usual road. The so-called folk prescription refers to a prescription that has a simple formula, few herbs, easy to obtain materials, is often circulated among the people and is not found in classical medical works, and has a special effect on a certain disease or disease. However, in the absence of formal clinical experiments and verification, it is difficult to guarantee the safety if it is directly used on patients. In addition, we should also talk about the effective rate and cure rate of drugs. The effective rate and treatment rate of folk prescription in the whole population may not be very high, but for some special people, just like some drugs that have not finally reached clinical application, it may have a good effect. So for this group of people, these drugs that can't be used normally are folk remedies.

What kind of people pursue folk remedies?

Except for some paranoid people, they recognize folk remedies. Most people who pursue folk remedies are people with incurable diseases or incurable diseases. These people don't want to die because formal treatment is ineffective. So they have the attitude of giving it a try and give it a try if there is hope. This kind of mood is understandable, as the saying goes, there is nothing wrong. If the patient is himself, especially an incurable disease, everyone will try as long as there is hope.

However, the current medical conditions cannot meet the medical needs of many people, and many diseases are now helpless. So this is also one of the factors that make folk remedies popular. Moreover, in China, there is a profound cultural tradition. Thousands of years of medical culture will be affected to some extent. So many people will pursue folk remedies when they are helpless.

Is the folk prescription effective?

Is the folk prescription effective? It must be effective, and these things that have been circulating for hundreds or even thousands of years must have therapeutic effects. However, as mentioned above, these remedies may not be suitable for most people. If they are suitable for most people, they can't be called folk remedies, just like the formal prescriptions recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica. Therefore, folk remedies will certainly not apply to most people. It can only be applied to people with special physique.

Of course, some folk remedies have been circulating for many years and have been proved effective by many people. This part of the treatment method is also called folk prescription, but it has not been found scientific through formal scientific research. So in the final analysis, folk remedies may be effective for some people, but not necessarily for most people. Moreover, folk remedies have not been formally tested, and there may be great hidden dangers, such as some unknown side effects mentioned above, so I advise you not to use folk remedies as much as possible.