Scientific view of the side effects of Chinese medicine
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Treat their own bodies in this event, we should lay down their national feelings, with a scientific spirit, a scientific attitude to understand modern medicine.
This chapter will probably surprise you, even incredible. However, this is science!
Can not rely on the efficacy of Chinese medicine
Many people, becauseÇ×ÉíÌåÑé¹ýthe benefits of Chinese medicine or for national feelings of Chinese medicine and rely on myth, I think we should let them understand some of the basic medical science concepts and methods, more sober, rational treatment of Chinese medicine.
Doctors in the medical history of what was talked about their own prescription cured a patient, the patient in the article Xianshenshuofa on their own how to benefit from a drug, which appears in modern medicine no value, because the drug, The effect of therapy, the case is not convincing. Patients with a drug after eating a certain kind of disease Well, that does not mean that the drug is really played a role. It may be self-healing, many diseases did not take medicine can also be self-healing; may be psychological hint of a result, many diseases, a considerable part of the patient to eat without actually used for the "placebo" will be cured. A few years ago a very popular Gong treatment, cure specific functions, is also hinted that the use of psychological effect might even be misdiagnosed, patients have no disease. Therefore, in order to determine a drug's efficacy must be done a lot of clinical trials, to be determined after the statistics. And double-blind clinical trial must be taken, that is in the testing process, I do not know their patients to eat is the appearance of drug or the placebo-like drugs, to exclude psychological hint; attending doctors nor patients know which drugs or to eat Placebo, in order to avoid a subjective judgement when the effect of deviations. Who ate drugs, who eat a placebo control by a third party, in effect when the final statistics public. If drugs were cured (or better) ratio significantly higher than the placebo group, we have to determine the efficacy of the drug.
As far as I know, so far, what kind of traditional Chinese medicine has not fully adopted the strict clinical trials, and modern medicine (that is, the so-called "western medicine") generally must go through such a clinical trial will be granted listing. If the "individual treatment" as an excuse to self-deception, refused to clinical trials, it has nothing to say. Modern medicine recognition between different people there are individual differences, so drugs are often only part of the patient, not all of the patients are effective and therefore needs to be done statistics. But modern medicine does not consider that individual differences will be great to have each person can only use a specific prescription drug stage. A truly effective drug should be on a considerable number of people are effective.
Although some drugs have on the treatment of disease-efficiency, but because of side effects too, can not be used or anti. For those acute, highly toxic drugs, may also be found by experience, but for those side effects can be demonstrated by the longer time the chronic toxicity, such as the drug caused cancer, liver disease, kidney disease, cardiovascular diseases, to use their experience Simply can not be found, must rely on animal experiments, clinical trials, epidemiological investigation to check out. Although Chinese medicine "is one-third drug toxicity", but this is just a nonsense, of a drug What are the side effects, the body will be taken after organ damage caused by what is basically ignorant. Modern drugs in the brochure will be detailed description of side effects, and I taken several common proprietary Chinese medicines, have made no mention of side effects, the most in the "note" written in a "pregnant woman is disabled," people think that Chinese medicine The ordinary people have the impression that non-toxic side effects.
Recently rely on modern medical methods found that many of the non-toxic Chinese herbs that have strong side effects. Longdanxiegan Pills can lead to renal failure, is a famous example. In fact, there are many documented Pharmacopoeia "drug-free" was found in Chinese herbal medicine can lead to kidney failure, cancer, thymus atrophy, heavy metal poisoning, teratogenic. Many Chinese medicine tonics contain heavy metal components, will lead to chronic long-term use of heavy metal poisoning. It was ridiculous that the Chinese tonic after the service was "Zaore," "Shanghuo" very thought-indeed, I wonder if it is heavy metal poisoning symptoms.
Some Chinese medicine therapy, acupuncture, for example, has its value, but not that God, can be used as an auxiliary treatment. For example, analgesic. This area of foreign medical profession has a lot of research. Foreign researchers invented a simulated acupuncture "comfort needles," able to carry out acupuncture blind test, to determine its treatment of certain diseases have some effect, rather than rely entirely on psychological hint. On the mechanism of acupuncture has some understanding of, such as acupuncture analgesia can, because some points to stimulate the nervous system to have analgesic effect of the secretion of neurotransmitters. This is what "Meridian" There is no relationship. In fact, the mechanism of acupuncture abroad to study results show that it does not meet the "Meridian" the forecast.
As the efficacy of Chinese medicine, side effects unknown, then we should treat it like the treatment of new drug development, a pharmacology and toxicology, through in vitro, animal testing, 1-3 clinical trials, epidemiological investigations of these stages, following the World The medical profession recognized the principle of placebo-controlled, randomized principle, the principle of blind testing to determine their efficacy and side effects, could be recognized. To achieve truly quantify, modern medicine, must be to extract the active ingredients, such as ephedra extract from the ephedrine, extracted artemisinin from Artemisia annua, is a very small number have been recognized examples of success. Artemisinin-based antimalarial medicine has been the development of Chinese medicine as an example, in fact, the only research and development of Chinese medicine and become a point edge. It is from Jin Ge Hong, "rear elbow" be able to take Artesunate juice can cure malaria were recorded on the idea, but Chinese medicine for the treatment of malaria in traditional prescriptions artesunate Biejia fried it has malaria is invalid, because the destruction of decocting The chemical structure of artemisinin, lost their efficacy. Several decades of research to be such a drug, from the Chinese herbal medicine found that although new drugs have a certain value, but of little value. For some time the world's major pharmaceutical companies are keen on the development of new drugs from herbs, but also because of low efficiency, not to benefit, has been gradually cooling. At the molecular level in drug design and development of new drug screening is the trend.
All kinds of Chinese proprietary, civil prescription, Zuzhuanmifang, tonic medicine, Chinese medicine health care products, and so on the market is still very, understand that modern medical knowledge, not to rely on all kinds of ads, rumors, not only can spend less money wrongly accused, but also to their own The physical point less by the crime. Otherwise, the blind after taking Chinese medicines cause irreversible chronic poisoning, Huizhiwanyi.
