It is a three-point poison of medicine, in which "medicine" refers to Chinese medicine or western medicine?

When I was a child, I thought the taste of Chinese medicine was mysterious. Fried Chinese medicine is such an ancient thing. The traditional Chinese medicine filtered by gauze seems to be full of magic. Sick people will recover after drinking it.

What is Chinese medicine? Most of the ways are to mix a lot of plants+animals+strange things, crush them and cook them. This cooking is a mixture, that is, there are many chemicals in it.

Let's not judge whether Chinese medicine is effective or not. We assume that it is effective and can cure diseases. The principle must also be that one or more chemicals react with your diseased part, causing the virus or bacteria to be killed and the disease will be cured.

Traditional Chinese medicine advertisements often say that it is a pure natural preparation with absolutely no side effects. Many people dare not eat western medicine, but choose Chinese medicine because they think that western medicine has side effects, while Chinese medicine has no side effects. In fact, since ancient times, people have realized that some traditional Chinese medicines have toxic side effects, even very toxic. The earliest book recording Chinese medicine is Shennong Herbal Classic, in which 365 kinds of Chinese medicines are recorded, which are divided into three categories: upper, middle and lower. It can be seen that the ancients also knew that Chinese medicine was not non-toxic, and many natural things would be poisoned or even poisoned if eaten.

For us who have been studying scientific knowledge since childhood, the theory of traditional Chinese medicine sounds deceptive, similar to the theories of fortune telling, astrology, geomantic omen, religion and so on. The taste and appearance of traditional Chinese medicine are not so pleasing. The western medicine we are talking about now is medicine developed based on modern medical theory. Modern medicine is devoted to the study of the effects of each component in drugs on diseases and human body, and has indeed achieved clear pharmacological effects. After nearly a hundred years of continuous progress, western medicine has made great contributions to human health, with clear thinking and high efficiency. Doctors and patients can know the effect and influence of the drugs they use, that is, using the wrong drugs leads to some consequences, and can also clearly trace the reasons and responsibilities.

Many things in Chinese herbal medicine are originally food or not as regular food, but they are also easy to obtain and can be eaten directly. Psychologically easy to accept, a bit of a hodgepodge, very grounded, right?

Conversely, when the instructions of western medicine are opened, does that molecular formula directly kill most people? Even if you can recognize this molecular formula or some groups, so what? I still don't understand. Look at the instructions again. It's so scary! And quite expensive, isn't it?

Speaking of western medicine, it is always said that it is a three-point poison, and it is too dangerous for western medicine to kill this and that. In other words, western medicine is aimed at symptoms and cannot solve the root cause. As everyone knows, this view is too backward and too narrow. In fact, not only drugs with different action principles will be prepared according to the actual situation and etiology of patients, but also the amount used for different degrees of diseases is standard.

What does western medicine do? Suppose there are 10,000 kinds of chemicals in each traditional Chinese medicine (in fact, there should be more than these). Western medicine will do experiments to separate all the 10,000 kinds of chemicals in this specific medicine soup, try one by one, find the chemicals that really work on the affected part, and then copy and paste one or more chemicals that work on the affected part to make medicine. This is called western medicine. For example, the famous artemisinin appeared in this way.

You can see this kind of thing in the instructions of most western medicines. This is called structural formula, which indicates the ingredients of this medicine.

The biggest problem of traditional Chinese medicine is that it cannot meet all the requirements of modern medicine for drugs-composition, mechanism of action, clinical data, side effects and so on. And it can't explain itself at all, so it can't be accepted by modern medicine or even modern science. But this is precisely the reason why Chinese medicine is trusted by many people-the ingredient list of western medicine is full of incomprehensible chemicals and has a lot of side effects. Any medicine will write "death in rare cases"; Chinese medicine is different. Angelica sinensis, Codonopsis pilosula and Polygonum multiflorum Thunb ... are all pure natural ingredients, and they have never had any side effects, so they are much relieved.

Before the western medicine goes on the market, its efficacy, safe dosage and adverse reactions have been systematically tested, analyzed in detail and clearly written in the instructions, so it can be prevented in advance and the problems can be saved as much as possible.

In fact, our drug supervision department and drug production enterprises are very irresponsible. Many substances haven't been tested strictly for toxic and side effects before they are added to the Pharmacopoeia, so what will happen to you after you take these drugs is really fate. For example, the famous "Longdan Xiegan Pill" contains "Akebia Akebia", which causes thousands of people to have renal failure. Because aristolochic acid contained in Aristolochia manshuriensis can cause kidney diseases. Caulis Akebiae is a legal medicinal material listed in China Pharmacopoeia. There are so many objects in Chinese medicine. Whether people who eat Chinese medicine all the year round will bump into the next Akebia manshuriensis depends entirely on luck.

Then open the Chinese patent medicine around you and look at the column of adverse reactions and contraindications. Most of them are: adverse reactions: unclear, contraindications: unclear.

What do you mean, unclear? There are no adverse reactions during the drug trial, which does not mean that the drug has no adverse reactions. In other words, what is unclear is that we really don't know what will happen after eating it. Most people are fine, and they may be foaming at the mouth after eating it, or they may have kidney failure like Longdan Xiegan Pill. Isn't it irresponsible that this medicine can still go on the market after eating it?

With the development of modern science, why should we take a medicine that doesn't even know what it contains? Those who worry about food safety every day, those who resist poisoned milk, waste oil and food additives, why should they take a medicine that they don't even know what will happen if they eat it? Isn't this a contradiction?

In addition, let's talk about effectiveness. This is a cliche. For example, a double-blind experiment is needed to determine the effectiveness of a drug before it goes on the market to rule out the "placebo" effect of the drug. What is the placebo effect? It means that you "feel much better" after eating this.

Medicine has always been developing in the process of trying to meet the needs of patients and fighting injuries. As long as there is demand, someone will do it.

We should learn to protect ourselves. No matter how Chinese medicine explains it, no matter how well the advertisement says, we should not take any drugs or supplements with unclear curative effect and side effects. The body is your own. If you eat Chinese medicine indiscriminately, it will be too late to regret it.

We are human beings, so we are biased, we will be stubborn, and it is difficult for us to accept other people's views. But there is no shame in trying to correct these weaknesses. People who can think should think based on logic and facts, not on positions and who we are. We should think through the veil of ignorance.

Therefore, as long as modern medicine cannot cure all human diseases, we hope that Chinese medicine can be passed on, and of course it is better to make progress and make people understand.