How can that be? No medicine can be said to be safe.

Not to mention medicines, but even food can be harmful when consumed improperly, the logic is simple.

In the Shennong Ben Cao Jing, traditional Chinese medicine is categorized into three grades: upper, middle and lower. In fact, it is divided according to the "partiality" of the medicinal properties. The so-called "partiality" is actually toxicity. That is to say, there are Chinese medicines are complementary non-toxic, such as yam, wolfberry, maitake, ginseng, etc.; some Chinese medicines have a small bias, that is, there is a small poison, or non-toxic between, such as rhubarb, Huanglian, cypress, etc.; and there are Chinese medicines bias is relatively large, that is, the common people say "poisonous", such as aphrodisiacs, flowers, halberds, and so on.

Therefore, it is not objective to blindly say that Chinese medicines have no side effects, and there are many Chinese medicines that have side effects as far as the Chinese medicine itself is concerned.

Another layer of logic, as long as the identification of inaccurate, improper use of prescription, whether or not toxic Chinese medicine, will also be harmful to the human body. For example, if a person with a real disease is given a tonic, although the tonic itself is not toxic, it is harmful to the patient. For example, if a person with a cold body is given a cold medicine, although the cold medicine itself is not toxic, it is harmful to such a patient. On the other hand, if a person has a very serious disease, and in order to cure this disease, it is necessary to use "poisonous medicine", then this "poisonous medicine" is poisonous to other people, but for this patient, it is a life-saving medicine, which is non-toxic. If you understand this, you will also understand whether Chinese medicine has side effects or not.

We have to look at this issue in two ways and not in absolute terms.

Whether Chinese medicine is safe or not, harmless or harmful, it is not up to anyone to say, Chinese medicine is also a medicine, it is a medicine that is three times poisonous, there is no doubt about it. But under specific conditions it is safe and harmless. This specific condition is: based on the overall concept of Chinese medicine theory and evidence-based treatment, under the guidance of a good Chinese medicine practitioner or Chinese pharmacist.

Each flavor of Chinese medicine has its own characteristics, such as the four qi (cold, hot, warm, cool), five flavors (pungent, sweet, sour, bitter, salty and bland), elevation, floating and sinking, attributed to the meridian, poisonous and non-toxic, with contraindications (eighteen anti, nineteen fear, contraindications in pregnancy, contraindications to the food when taking medicines) in order to the use of Chinese medicines, dosage, decoction (such as decoction, after the decoction, packet decoction, etc.), indications and so on. These are the rules we have to follow, and when used within this rule, Chinese medicine is safe and harmless. If this principle is violated, it may not be safe.

For example, such as commonly used ginseng, hypertensive patients should not be taken, because ginseng has the effect of elevating blood pressure; feel the evil of the patient should not be used, ginseng has a tonic nature, with which the door can be closed to retain the evil. Another example is the frequent use of Chuanwu, Caowu, epiphyllum, etc., they need to be decocted for 30 minutes to alleviate its side effects, otherwise it will have a toxic effect.

It is thus clear that we, the ordinary people, who do not know Chinese medicine, should not use all kinds of Chinese medicines privately, but must take them under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner or a Chinese pharmacist; and as a Chinese medicine practitioner or a Chinese pharmacist, it is all the more necessary for us to constantly upgrade our own business level and carry forward our traditional medicine cause so as to better serve our patients.

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No. Sometimes it can kill people.

I saw a patient, their own home in the soil panax pseudoginseng brew, then acute liver failure, the patient nausea and vomiting, fatigue, jaundice to come, and then more and more unclear consciousness, talking nonsense, liver function abnormalities, asked recently have eaten any medication, the original listening to people say that the soil panax pseudoginseng brewing wine can go rheumatism, drink for a period of time, to consider the medication of liver damage.

However, the problem is that this doesn't cure rheumatism, and it almost cost me my life, so you call that dangerous?

Secondly, it also depends on whether it is symptomatic, Chinese medicine has cold and hot, body heat people are not suitable for hot medicine, I have a classmate, she heard that eating Colla Corii Asini is good for girls, so she bought a little bit of her own and began to eat, and then began to nosebleed, well, make up for the overdose, and usually she is afraid of heat people.

The above two examples mainly illustrate that Chinese medicines may also have side effects. In ancient times, all medicines were poisons, and curing diseases was also a matter of fighting poison with poison. Shennong Ben Cao Jing will be divided into drugs in the upper middle and lower three products, the upper product, then, generally no toxic side effects, you can rest assured that the food, many of which are ingredients in life. Always have not heard of eating red dates and wolfberries poisoned

There are also medications that are definitely prone to problems when used blindly without understanding the toxic side effects, which is the case with many indigenous herbs.

There are also some medicines that doctors can use to cure diseases, taking its medicinal properties to cure diseases, but ordinary people eating by themselves may be prone to side effects, such as the example of Agaricus. Therefore, medicine should not be taken blindly, and should be used only after a doctor's consultation.

At least I haven't heard of any doctor prescribing it to a patient with abnormal liver function.

It is a misconception that herbal medicines are safe and harmless. Chinese medicines also have side effects!

For a long time, it has been believed that herbal medicines are safe and harmless because they are all natural plants and so on. Often, many people are very afraid of the toxic side effects of chemical drug instructions because of turning to what they consider to be safe Chinese medicine. Some people even take herbal medicines as a way to regulate their health and take them all year round. This practice is all wrong!This is because herbal medicines also have toxic side effects, they are just not well researched and can't be written as clearly as chemical medicines.

Toxic side effects of Chinese medicine should not be ignored

We often say that medicine is three times poisonous, even though most of the ingredients of Chinese medicine come from plants, minerals, animals, etc. However, it cannot be denied that Chinese medicine also has toxic side effects. Many proprietary Chinese medicines in the market before I have to go through acute toxicity long-term toxicity and other studies. Moreover, according to the data of the National Center for Adverse Drug Reaction Testing, in recent years, nearly five percent of the adverse reactions and deaths from the toxic side effects of Chinese medicine.

Moreover, Chinese medicines are often used in combination with a variety of herbs, coupled with the fact that the decoction process is very often solved by the patients themselves, thus making it difficult to control the composition of the final drug decoction and increasing the detection of adverse reactions to Chinese medicines.

But it doesn't mean that Chinese herbs are unsafe, not all of them are toxic and have a lot of side effects

Many of the adverse effects of Chinese medicines come from patients buying them on their own or accidentally consuming them without understanding their medicinal properties;

It may also come from poor skills of TCM practitioners, or blind faith in ancestral recipes that lead to improper compounding of drugs;

Most importantly, many people take herbs as tonics on a daily basis, which can be harmful over the years.

Do you think herbal medicine is safe? Do you take herbs on a regular basis? Let's talk about it.

Many people think that Chinese medicine is natural and beneficial, most people think that Chinese medicine can be eaten at any time, especially some pregnant women, children and other special groups of people who are sick often in order to avoid the toxic side effects of drugs, and the use of Chinese medicine treatment. In addition, we often see in some drug advertisements pure Chinese medicine products "no toxicity" so that more people are convinced that Chinese medicine is not toxic, in fact, this is only commercial publicity, not in line with the objective reality.

In fact, Chinese medicine also has side effects, in the clinical Chinese herbal medicine toxic side effects of many miscellaneous, in addition to local effects, but also can cause multi-system damage, and even lead to death, such as vermillion, andrographis, toadstools, epiphyllum, etc., overdose caused poisoning.

Some proprietary Chinese medicine instructions will often write that the side effects are not yet clear, this sentence is written exactly do not know if there are no side effects, and the people often understand that there are no side effects, this is a kind of wrong to think that the law.

That is why the toxic side effects of Chinese medicine should attract great attention. No matter what kind of medicine we take we should refrain from taking it and go to a regular hospital to diagnose our illness first and then treat the symptoms.

Chinese medicine is basically safe and harmless. But anything is not a layer of invariance, it is from quantitative change to qualitative change, by such as people drink water, thirsty drink a mouthful or one or two at most two (100 ml), no problem, the human organism has a good, on the contrary, one of the thirst to drink vigorously, drink simply can not be swallowed, which is called the amount of over.

This is also true for Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine is divided into upper, middle, lower three products, the upper product is non-toxic, the middle product is small poison, the lower product is basically poisonous, but non-toxic products eat more than the same will be a problem, for example, the well-known ginseng, a large tonic energy, the birth of the thirst, and the treatment of asthma, the dosage of 9-12g, if you also increase the dose of 3-5 times, it is overdose, there will be a bloated stomach and abdomen, restlessness of the body, which is what Chinese medicine said in the poison, in the ginseng toxicity! This is what Chinese medicine calls poison, ginseng poison, and drinking too much water is called water poisoning.

Therefore, for Chinese medicine to discern the view, can not generalize it toxic or non-toxic, as often said, garcinia cambogia (poisonous products) heal the disease, licorice (top grade and non-toxic) haunted the death, but also explains this reasoning, that is, the dosage must be precise, accurate, medication should be a targeted, so that basically you can say that the Chinese medicine is safe and non-toxic.

Where's the one thing that's absolutely safe and harmless.

Especially today, everyone is so focused on making money that they don't care about their health.

Chinese medicine, being medicine, is naturally biased. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine says that poisons attack evil.

In Chinese medicine, all medicines, which are considered poisons, are used to attack evil, which is like ammunition for war.

This is especially true of large-scale cultivation and the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides on herbs in pursuit of yield.

There's a saying that a medicine is a poison.

Chinese medicine, as a kind of partiality that regulates human health, does not lie in whether the Chinese medicine itself is poisonous or not, but in how to use it. Just like a knife, naturally, it can be used for good purposes, and some people use it to hurt people, which means that there is no problem with Chinese medicine itself, but the problem lies in how to use it.

Medicine can be divided into three categories, one is Taoist medicine, one is quackery, and the other is abolitionist medicine.

Taoist doctors, who are the ones who can utilize the seven points of the Chinese medicine, do not reach 100% to ensure certain five poisons.

The quack, a Chinese medicine practitioner who can ensure that the three poisons are not poisonous, for him to be able to regulate the body is entirely dependent on the probability, and does not really understand the bias of Chinese medicine.

The rest of the class is now on the Baidu all kinds of "god doctor", they are cheating money, similar to health care products, normally eat does not die, but to say that the effect, really do not.

Is there any Chinese medicine practitioner who ensures 100% safety? Of course there is, but the great doctors do not treat one or a few patients. Why? Because the Great Physician heals the nation.

Xu Da Chun said it, the doctor, lowly work also. Not that the doctor is a very low occupation, but that saints cultivate the body, the family, the country and the world, do not care to save a few patients. The doctor, the reason why it is "cheap" work, is that there is no great talent for ruling the country and the world.

It can be seen that the quality of those who practiced Chinese medicine in ancient times was still very high, second only to those who were saints.

There is no absolute safety in herbal medicine, it's all about how you use it.

First, you have to know what medicine is.

Secondly, you need to know what herbal medicine is.

Toxic herbal medicine herbalists can heal patients without anything happening to them.

A non-toxic herbalist can eat you to death just as well.

Chinese medicine, is the treatment of disease. There are diseases to cure and no diseases to kill.

The key is who's using it not just anyone who can use it.

This is Chinese medicine.