The folk prescription "pox" eats Datura stramonium seeds. 18-year-old boy has been admitted to ICU. Is the folk prescription credible?

The folk prescription is not credible. Folk prescription is a traditional Chinese medicine that is not found in classical medical works, and records the treatment methods of various intractable diseases. But in the long river of history, some folk remedies have been lost, and no one knows whether this folk remedy is a life-saving medicine or a poison that kills people immediately. So be careful when using folk remedies, as people often say, ten folk remedies and nine fakes. Let's talk about why folk remedies are not credible from three aspects:

First, there is a gap in folk prescription inheritance methods.

We all know that folk remedies will not appear in medical works, but some indigenous methods used by the people, and their circulation mode is more biased towards population transmission, that is, from generation to generation, and no one knows whether there will be omissions or additions after being handed down. Moreover, the users of folk remedies are mostly ordinary people who have no medical knowledge at all, which makes folk remedies unreliable.

The second is the uncertainty of the curative effect of folk prescription.

As we all know, modern drugs are difficult to be put on the shelves because of the uncertainty of therapeutic effect. If the drug with uncertainty goes on the market, it will bring a great blow to mankind. The folk prescription is called folk prescription because it has not been scientifically verified, so it does not have the certainty of modern medicine. So no one knows how harmful this uncertainty is. Therefore, you should use it with caution when you encounter folk remedies.

Third, there are too many false remedies.

People's Health Network has reported some folk remedies, which have been verified by medical experts and proved to be ineffective for human diseases. For example, the physical cooling method of wiping the body with alcohol. Physical cooling is not suitable for all patients with fever, and there are hidden dangers in wiping children with alcohol. Xu Changsheng, deputy chief physician of emergency medicine department of Zhong Da Hospital affiliated to Southeast University, said that adults over 16 years old have a fever, which can be physically cooled by rubbing with alcohol, while children under 16 years old have a fever, which easily leads to sudden drop of body temperature and shock. When the body is hot, alcohol will be absorbed quickly, which is easy to cause alcoholism.

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