Many chronic diseases require long-term medication, such as coronary heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. All of these diseases pose serious risks to human health and can significantly shorten life expectancy if not actively treated. If regular treatment is adhered to over a long period of time, these patients are fully capable of surviving and living a long life with the same high quality as healthy people.

It is true that all medicines are poisonous. The vast majority of medications have side effects of one kind or another, including Chinese medicines. However, when it comes to weighing the pros and cons of a disease against the side effects of a drug, "choosing the lesser of two evils" is a good way to put it. If the health risks of the disease are clearly greater than the potential side effects of the drug, then of course we should stick to the drug.

Let me give you an example: there are more and more heart failure patients nowadays. If not actively treated, the life expectancy of heart failure patients is the same as that of patients with malignant tumors. However, as long as long-term adherence to regular treatment, the life expectancy of heart failure patients can be extended by about 10 years. Drugs for heart failure will also have some side effects, but the benefits of treatment with drugs are obviously more than the disadvantages, of course, still need to use drugs.

The safety of current medications for the treatment of chronic diseases has been repeatedly researched and demonstrated, and as long as the medication is used in a regular and reasonable manner under the guidance of a doctor, its side effects are completely controllable. Worrying too much about the side effects of drugs and not willing to take medication is a misconception.

I am a Chinese medicine clinician and this is how I see this issue.

With many chronic diseases, why must you take medication for life? Many times I don't feel it's necessary.

Many so-called chronic diseases, such as high blood pressure. Western doctors tell you that you need to take medication for a long period of time and take it until you die.

Let's look at the logic, first of all the invention of an indicator that is abnormal is a disease, and then you have to take medicine. How did this indicator come about? Artificially mandated, done by research, supported by whoever, the drug companies that sell antihypertensive drugs.

You see this year the cure for high blood pressure has been lowered again, down 10, and I wonder how many billions more people have just become hypertensive! Then you guys take your meds, and the drug companies make a fortune.

The more western medicine advances, the more diseases are increasing, especially chronic ones. Once they are diagnosed then they are on medication for life! There is no cure for these chronic diseases.

Western medicine is so scientific why don't they go into what causes these chronic diseases?

Nobody cares? Doctors are responsible for prescribing medication just fine.

Everyone can take it anyway.

In Chinese medicine, many sub-healthy, chronic disease states or physical conditions can be improved and regulated.

Or take western medicine along with Chinese medicine methods and try to reduce or stop the dosage.

I have encountered some patients who, by improving their bad habits and combining them with Chinese medicine, their hypertension can be well controlled without the need to take western medicines.

See Western doctors say so many chronic diseases to take long-term medication really sad, ancient Chinese medicine is able to completely cure, only now many Chinese medicine is too profit-oriented, have lost the medical ethics as well as life-saving love, not to mention the careful study of medical skills. A good Chinese medicine practitioner must be a person who practises medicine. If a patient encounters a Chinese medicine practitioner who does not know how to meditate and practise medicine, he or she is basically a quack. I can say this to treat chronic diseases that have not been damaged by Western medicine.

Do chronic diseases have to last a lifetime without being able to stop taking their medication? Answer: No!

Chronic disease is the full name of chronic non-communicable diseases, not specifically referring to a particular disease, but to a class of insidious onset, longer duration of illness, and prolonged condition, the lack of definitive evidence of infectious biological etiology, the cause of the complexity of some of the diseases have not yet been fully recognized as a generalized general term.

Due to the complexity of the causes of chronic diseases, and the longer course of the disease, and the condition of the prolonged, so the treatment of chronic diseases should be prepared to fight a protracted war, that is to say, the patient must have "patience, perseverance, confidence," and absolutely can not lose confidence, let the disease develop!

Chronic diseases are both mild and severe, for those with mild conditions, they can temporarily not take medication, through dietary modification, strengthen physical exercise, while ensuring adequate sleep; for those with severe conditions, they should take a comprehensive therapy based on medication, rather than relying solely on medication.