Brothers, indeed the Chinese medicine thought simple, Chinese medicine treatment and Western medicine method is different, Western medicine is antibiotics, hormones, excision. Chinese medicine is concerned about yin and yang, five colors and five flavors into the medicine, the prescription of the collocation of the ruler and ministers to pay attention to the auxiliary, these can not be purified, and acupuncture, Western medicine is not the concept of acupuncture points, because there is no anatomical, but the meridians are real. The theory of Chinese medicine seems to be mysterious, but it contains the history and culture of China for thousands of years, is the treasure of China, Western medicine only how many years, at most a few hundred years.

People who have eaten Chinese medicine know that a medicine at least a few kinds of Chinese medicine, some even more than a dozen kinds of Chinese medicine, so used to boil medicine, and boil out of the medicine are more bitter, it is difficult to enter, it is simply a hodgepodge. So many people have raised a question, can the effective chemical components of traditional Chinese medicine can be purified directly pharmaceutical to improve the efficacy of the medicine? This is not only easy to enter, the efficacy is also better, but also more aspects, do not have to boil medicine so troublesome.

It can be said that this idea is the method of Western medicine to cure diseases. Nowadays, many Western medicines are compounds, such as some antibiotics and hormones, which can have good efficacy just by taking these medicines, such as bacterial infections, which can be killed off by the pathogenic bacteria just by using some antibiotics. Since Western medicine can be so to improve the efficacy, then the Chinese medicine should also be able to extract some of the effective chemical components in the Chinese medicine, so that the efficacy of the medicine can be improved, and do not have to use so many kinds of Chinese medicine at a time, and do not know the fundamental that the drug in the role of the only need to be purified out of the active ingredients of these Chinese medicines, then it is much simpler.

For those who have this idea, I think this is looking at Chinese medicine as too simple, which is already a completely westernized mindset and is no longer the mindset of Chinese medicine practitioners.

Why? Because the principle of Chinese medicine treatment is based on the four qi and five flavors of Chinese medicine, which is because each kind of Chinese medicine has a certain nature and taste, and the four qi and five flavors of each kind of Chinese medicine are different, and thus have different therapeutic effects. Four qi is the drug "cold, hot, warm, cool" four different medicinal properties, also known as the four sex; five flavor is the drug "sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, salty" five different medicinal flavors. For example, "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" says the principle of medicine: treat cold with hot medicine, treat heat with cold medicine. That is, if a person is cold, he should be treated with hot medicines; if a person is hot, he should be treated with cold medicines. In addition, the role of the five flavors of Chinese medicine, the "Nei Jing" that the pungent dispersal, sour collection, sweet slow, bitter firm, salty soft. Chinese medicine treats diseases by using medicines according to the evidence, not according to the disease.

Then you say, if these Chinese medicines are purified, then how do you extract the "four qi and five flavors"? As if gypsum is a traditional Chinese medicine, in our view is just a stone, and from the composition, the main component of gypsum is anhydrous calcium sulfate (CaSO4-2H2O), while calcined gypsum is anhydrous calcium sulfate (CaSO4). So, as a key medicine for clearing and relieving solid heat in the qi division, what ingredients are at work in gypsum? Moreover, after the calcination of gypsum, the action has changed dramatically, and instead of clearing heat, it has become astringent. But with gypsum big cold medicinal properties are good explanation, big cold can be out to remove the big heat. Therefore, Chinese medicine is not dependent on a certain active ingredient to cure the disease.

Also, well water can be used to cure diseases, if you say to purify its active ingredients to improve the efficacy, then how do you purify is still not water, how do you know this well water that ingredient is used to cure diseases? This is nothing more than when we drink into the well water, can improve the body's evidence, so that then adjust our body to make the disease recovery.

Does that mean that Chinese medicine cannot be purified and used to improve the efficacy of the drug?

Of course, it is not impossible to say that the active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine will be purified to cure the disease, for the purification of traditional Chinese medicine, in fact, there have been scientists in the research, in the experiments, in fact, there are now some traditional Chinese medicines have been purified to some of the active ingredients used to treat the disease. For example, artemisinin, is used to treat malaria from traditional Chinese medicine purified anti-malarial drugs, as well as from the traditional Chinese medicine ephedra to extract ephedrine, from the separation of the diaphragm in the chronic granulocytic leukemia effective indigo red, from the northern schizandra in the isolation of Schisandra chinensis, from the isolation of Lei Gongteng in the isolation of Lei Gongteng Suo A, from the isolation of ginseng saponins in the ginseng sapogenins Rg3 and so on, the current purification of these effective ingredients These purified active ingredients are currently used in the clinical treatment of diseases.

But medical scientists have found that many of the active ingredients purified from Chinese medicine are often susceptible to drug resistance or side effects, and studies have also found that some of the chemicals purified into chemicals are effective in in vitro tests, but not when they enter the human body.

Therefore, in Chinese medicine, used to treat diseases is not a particular drug active ingredients, Chinese medicine is to treat the evidence and not treat the disease, also subject to the evidence is not the right disease. For example, a headache, not simply take a headache medicine can be, which is only treating the symptoms but not the root cause; and fever, not simply take a fever reducer on the line, when the effect of the medicine past, the fever still exists. Chinese medicine is in the process of disease treatment, the prescription of each flavor of Chinese medicine plays a different role, some of the main disease or the main evidence to play a major therapeutic role, some on the part of the disease or the part of the evidence to play a major therapeutic role, and some play the role of the introduction of medicine or the role of the harmonizing medicine. In addition, the active ingredients of Chinese medicines are characterized by uncertainty, that is to say, in different compound formulas and different main treatments, even if it is the same Chinese medicine, the types of active ingredients are different, and the efficacy and activity they exert are not the same.

Therefore, the treatment of disease by Chinese medicine is not subject to a certain active ingredient in the role, may be a variety of drugs, a variety of active ingredients together in the role, for example, some of the ingredients in the Chinese medicine to promote or inhibit the absorption of other ingredients, thus playing an increase in efficacy or reduce the toxicity of the effect of the role of Chinese medicine. Therefore, it is difficult for a single active ingredient to fully reflect the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine. There are many types of active ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine, and different active ingredients correspond to different efficacies, but all chemical components involved in the treatment of diseases, which can improve the efficacy of treatment, or reduce the toxicity and side-effects of the chemical components are the active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine.

To put it more simply, even for the same kind of Chinese medicine, raw and cooked herbs will have different effects, just like the raw and cooked gypsum I mentioned earlier. Furthermore, even if it is the same kind of Chinese medicine, the effect of soup, powder and pill will be different. Also, even if it is the same kind of Chinese medicine, the dosage is not the same, and the effect will also be different. These are not useful simply by purifying the active ingredient.

In short, Chinese medicine has its own set of theories and principles for treating diseases, and it is not the case that a simple active ingredient can cure a disease. Why do we need to be obsessed with which component of a Chinese medicine is effective in treating a disease? As long as it can be used to treat the disease, whether it is a single prescription, a prescription of several Chinese medicines or a prescription of a dozen Chinese medicines, it is the people who want to get rid of the disease.

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It can be purified, but it is not the direction of development of Chinese medicine. The reason why Chinese medicine treats new crowns without developing drug resistance lies in the flexibility of Chinese medicine in recognizing the symptoms and adding or subtracting medicines.

Wheat, rice feeds the hungry, replenishes energy, and allows humans to flourish.

Modern science is awesome, the active ingredients of wheat, rice have been analyzed thoroughly. So do you think it's okay not to eat rice, wheat, just the active ingredients?

If it's OK, then so is Chinese medicine. How it's not okay, then neither is Chinese medicine.

The reasoning is super simple, so don't pull a bunch of scientific theories to refute it!

Can't.

Chinese medicine is a philosophical dialectical thinking based on yin and yang, five elements, regulating the inner balance of human beings and the harmony between human beings and nature, which belongs to the empirical science.

Western medicine is based on anatomy and chemistry, unproven, unseen and untouchable is not recognized as a practical science.

That's why Chinese medicine's meridians and acupoints are not recognized by Western medicine, which only believes in visible structures, such as blood vessels and nerves.

Surgery, to eliminate the symptoms, must choose Western medicine, Western medicine.

And some chronic diseases, Chinese medicine is better. The principle of Chinese medicine is different from Western medicine, will not have a direct effect on the foci of the disease, but to adjust the body's internal balance of the main, is the so-called support positive, and the body's yin and yang and five elements of the balance of the disease will also be well, this is but the evil.

As a result of this epidemic, the status of Chinese medicine has risen to an unprecedented height. Personally, I believe that Chinese medicine is an important component of the Chinese cultural heritage, which should not be abandoned, nor should it be obsessed with, but should be studied and applied in a scientific manner.

And Western medicine must not be devalued, it must be developed harder.

In anything, too much force can turn a good thing into a bad thing, and that's what happens when you overdo it.

Completely, now there are a lot of proprietary Chinese medicines, Chinese medicine should also continue to develop, but also to keep pace with the times, the use of modern science and technology, can not stick to the old rules, we have to respect the ancient more can not be ranked today, because mankind and science and technology is always higher and better, to the direction of the development of a more simple, convenient and practical to improve the efficacy of the drug to allow patients to use the drug is more convenient to eliminate the need for trouble of decoctions, to reduce the bitterness of the medicine in the mouth, the Chinese medicine will be more accepted by the people of the masses. If we can make the prescription more mature and adaptable, I believe Chinese medicine will be more accepted by the public.

Is it possible to purify the active chemical components of Chinese medicine and directly make medicine to improve its efficacy? To ask such a question shows that you do not know much about modern Chinese medicine. Whether it is said to be the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine or the westernization of traditional Chinese medicine, from the 1990s, traditional Chinese medicine is no longer confined to the ancient pills, creams and soups, a variety of new extraction, refining process, new dosage forms have been gradually applied to the development of traditional Chinese medicine. As you say, "the effective chemical components of traditional Chinese medicine will be purified to improve the efficacy of pharmaceutical products directly" is only part of the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine.

We all know that the complexity of the composition of traditional Chinese medicine, are said to be a multi-component common effect, because before people have no way to explore the specific effect of a particular flavor of traditional Chinese medicine ingredients, and now with the help of extraction and separation technology and pharmacological testing, people can be separated from the traditional Chinese medicine of various types of ingredients, through the in vitro pharmacological testing of the components of the pharmacological effect of the preliminary judgment. And according to the results of the experiment to determine these ingredients on a certain type of disease, and then through a reasonable process of purification, refining, and then made into the corresponding pharmaceuticals. In the past, it may be necessary to drink a pot of boiled soup, but now it may only take one or two capsules (tablets) can be, not only has the exact efficacy and convenience.

Nowadays, the purification of the active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine is not only about the single ingredient, but also about the effective part. A single component is well explained, that is, a certain kind of component, such as baicalin and baicalin extracted from Scutellaria baicalensis, which have an exact and single structural formula, with a purity of more than 95%; whereas an effective part usually refers to a part containing a main effective component or a group of structurally similar effective components, which is not a single component, for example, hemosiderophore preparation, whose main component, panax ginseng total saponins, are active active active components extracted from panax ginseng, including more than 20 kinds of saponin active substances, which are extracted from panax ginseng, including more than 20 kinds of saponin active substances. It includes more than 20 kinds of saponin active substances.

After the purification of Chinese medicines, their efficacy in the treatment of a particular disease is more prominent, because they use more of the clinical evaluation methods of Western medicine. Therefore, after the purification of Chinese medicine, compared with the original soup, can only be said to reflect in a certain aspect of the efficacy of improved, but from the overall view of the theory of Chinese medicine can not be compared, which is also the modern Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine has been controversial. In any case, the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine is also considered to be the progress of the development of Chinese medicine, we have to look at the problem from a dual perspective, although some traditional Chinese medicine efficacy of modern Chinese medicine can not be achieved, but some traditional Chinese medicine can not be achieved by modern Chinese medicine to do (such as easy to carry, easy to take, no longer bitter taste of the good medicine, etc.).

This is not a generalization; some herbs can indeed be purified and use a single ingredient, such as artemisinin, etc., whereas most herbs can't, or can't at this point in time, due to the fact that mankind's current analytical capabilities are insufficient to recognize the functions of most herbs.

Chinese medicines are basically natural products, such as plants, animals and minerals. Their compositions are extremely complex, and there are also many trace components, human beings can not yet fully understand all the mechanisms of traditional Chinese medicine, the analysis process may miss a million. There is also the fact that traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the combination of herbs, and most of the time, not a single drug can play a role. The so-called "king, minister, auxiliary and envoy" indicates that a variety of Chinese medicines need to be combined with each other in order to achieve therapeutic effects.

In short, as far as the present level of human cognition is concerned, it is impossible to get good results by simply purifying Chinese medicine.

Westerners and you an idea, but the complexity of the ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine, not Westerners favorite target treatment, Chinese medicine is about supporting the right (poor) to correct the balance of conditioning. The source of the medical disease, not a headache and foot pain.

Can improve the efficacy of the medicine is not in the mouth, come up with falsifiable measures, do experiments can be known. Do not always a sentence, Chinese medicine is different from Western medicine, is not suitable for double-blind large sample experiments, then you come up with a convincing experimental program, so that the world convinced. Experience alone does not work in modern society, only look at the evidence. Building bridges and high-speed railroads rely solely on craftsmanship is far from enough, there must be scientific theory-based research, practice.