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Why do TCM practitioners always make up prescriptions with dozens of herbs back and forth? Can they cure diseases?

Why do TCM practitioners always make up prescriptions with dozens of herbs back and forth? Can they cure diseases?

Because these Chinese medicines (thousands of them) in Chinese medicine under the guidance of the theoretical system of diagnosis and treatment, in the clinical practice of Chinese medicine practitioners for thousands of years repeatedly verified that the taste and efficacy of the reliable, stable, safe to use, will not be like antibiotics, chemically synthesized drugs such as antibiotics, the use of a few years or decades after the emergence of drug resistance (efficacy is reduced, ineffective) or found on the human body of serious pathogenic side effects (Chloramphenicol needle, Anacin needle, Tetracycline) Needle, sulfonamides and other drugs cause aplastic anemia, neurodeafness, yellowing of teeth, kidney stones, etc.) will be banned or eliminated, Chinese medicine thousands of years to eliminate the person is almost unheard of. By later generations of medical practitioners revered as the medical saint of the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Mr. Zhang Zhongjing, summed up the second century before the clinical medical experience of Chinese medicine and the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" Chinese medicine theory of medical achievements, written out of the "Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases," commonly used traditional Chinese medicines are dozens of rigorous formulations, the effectiveness of the precise not only to treat the thousand years ago, exogenous fever (epidemics) and internal injuries and miscellaneous diseases, but also the treatment of modern exogenous diseases (epidemics) and internal injuries and miscellaneous diseases, last year So far, the famous lung detoxification soup for the treatment of neocoronavirus pneumonia (epidemic disease) is the synthesis of 4 compound formulas, such as Sagan Ephedra Soup, etc. in Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases".

Just as in math: permutations and combinations, used in sports activities and competitions, the same applies to the combination of Chinese medicine. In the prescription as long as the combination of drugs in line with the use of a certain disease, the doctor will be flexible, so the medicine formula is a lot, but not the same thing, so whether it is much clearer?

The Chinese medicine cabinet in the pharmacy is usually stocked with 6 hundred flavors of Chinese medicine, which can basically satisfy the daily needs of Chinese medicine prescription mixing. For infrequently used cold-backed Chinese medicines, temporary procurement is sufficient.

Why?

It is because, for Chinese medicine practitioners in general, the range of Chinese medicines used in prescriptions is mostly between 3 and 4 hundred flavors. Chinese medicine practitioners who prescribe a range of 5 to 6 hundred flavors of Chinese medicines are mostly famous Chinese medicine practitioners.

This is so because, throughout their lives, TCM practitioners have preferred the most cost-effective prescriptions and herbs. The nearly 6 hundred most commonly used herbs have been selected and optimized by TCM practitioners over thousands of years. Of course, it does not mean that cold-backed Chinese medicines are not used, but they are just used less frequently.

Why is it that 6 hundred flavors of Chinese herbs are, by and large, sufficient for Chinese medicine prescription? In fact, it is easier to understand the rationale as in the case of food. There are many different kinds of food, but the staple foods of rice, wheat, corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes are the most commonly used and the most important, especially rice and noodles, which cannot be replaced by other foods in the long run.

It is very easy to understand, Chinese medicine is like the multiplication formula, can be multiplied with any number, the result is naturally different. The same is true for Chinese medicine, depending on what kind of medicine it is paired with, the type of disease it treats is definitely different, it's as simple as that.

Do not dozens, a few can be, to save human disease, our ancestors said well: mulberry branches from the smaller the more. Read the meaning of this sentence, health is not far from you, from the root of the loophole to eliminate the onset of disease, in order to have no major diseases, happy life, longevity road is their own walk out of the road, to give friends who need to be healthy for life, the road to the centenary of the meeting again.

The Shennong Ben Cao Jing (神农本草經) contains a total of 360 flavors of Chinese medicine, and the 113 scriptural prescriptions in the Treatise on Typhoid Fever (伤寒论) use a total of 87 flavors of medicine. It is not the number of medicines used that makes a meridian prescription a good way to regulate the body. Rather, it lies in the subtlety and dosage of the formula. The same flavor of medicine and different medicines in the formula to adjust the symptoms will be different, the same flavor of medicine in the same formula with different dosages to adjust the symptoms are also different. Therefore, Zhang Zhongjing's 113 meridian formulas composed of 87 flavors of herbs encompassed all the symptoms of human illness.

This is one aspect of the scientific nature of Chinese medicine, ten drugs a formula easy amount of different, ten square ten drugs easy ten name

Binary has only two flavors of medicine, 0 and 1, but it can express infinite things. Chinese medicine is commonly used 200 flavors, after the arrangement of combinations can cure all kinds of diseases, but the radius does not exceed the yin and yang.

Chinese medicine treatment, understanding the cause of the disease and the nature of the medicine, the number of types of medicine lies in the patient's situation, will use the medicine of course, Chinese medicine is better than Western medicine.

In fact, the highest state of Chinese medicine is to cure the disease, research how to follow the way of heaven, the law of nature, to achieve the state of unity between man and nature, the use of drugs is also the level of art, has been the last resort of the lower work, the only thing is to do nothing but not to do is the upper work of governance.

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