Are there any side effects of Chinese medicine? This is a common concern of many patients who choose to see a Chinese medicine practitioner: are there any side effects of taking Chinese medicines, will they hurt the stomach, will they hurt the liver and the kidneys? In addition, many people who are biased against Chinese medicine are often paranoid about the side effects of Chinese medicine and use this as a starting point to call for the abolition of Chinese medicine, which is really funny and ridiculous. How to look at this issue, the author’s point of view is in fact very clear: Chinese medicine certainly has side effects, and part of the drug is poisonous, such as arsenic, can remove stubborn phlegm wheezing, strychnine to dispel wind and pain, epiphyllum for the complementary yang qi of the key drugs, and so on, and so on, similar poisons, with the carelessness of the life of a person, how can there be no toxic side effects? Traditional medicine has always believed that medicine is three times poisonous, the treatment of drugs is to correct the bias, highly toxic drugs at the critical moment, can save the building will fall. Ensure efficacy and avoid toxic side effects is the key to identification of drugs and in accordance with individual differences in strict control of its dosage, clinical treatment must be the patient’s safety in the first place, the tiger and wolf of the drug, try to avoid, never rely on, the ancients asked to use the drug in the disease, is based on the knowledge of the side effects of traditional Chinese medicine. However, at present, the field of Chinese medicine is full of chaos, part of the patients in the jianghu wild doctor for the tiger and wolf medicine, resulting in physical damage, as well as part of the people will gentian liver pills regardless of body type, regardless of age, regardless of men and women, regardless of geography, regardless of race, as a weight loss drug, and the resulting damage to liver and kidney function attributed to the traditional Chinese medicine, is really ignorant and uninteresting, boredom. Clinically, in order to avoid the side effects of traditional Chinese medicine, I personally suggest that the following points should be done: First, we should strictly adhere to the combination of dialectical treatment and disease diagnosis and treatment in traditional Chinese medicine. Secondly, we should try to choose the products with calm flavor and avoid the drugs of tiger and wolf. Thirdly, the dosage of medication should be increased or decreased strictly according to the physical condition of the patient, avoiding uniformity. Fourth, when using drugs for a long period of time, pay attention to monitoring liver and kidney functions to avoid pharmacogenetic damage. Fifth, adhere to the provisions of the pharmacopoeia dosage, avoid purely in accordance with experience, arbitrarily and without limit to increase the amount of drugs, the pharmacopoeia dosage, is the red line of clinical use of drugs, as a clinician, adhere to the pharmacopoeia dosage, is the best protection of both patients and doctors, such as a single drug can not achieve the desired therapeutic effect, you can be in the guidance of the experience of a group of medicines to adapt, as long as you do the above, you can ensure the safety of the clinical use of medication. As long as the above points are achieved, the safety of clinical use of medicines can be guaranteed. In addition, the quality of Chinese herbal medicines is also a more serious problem, many clinicians to the decline in the efficacy of Chinese medicine to blame on the current decline in the quality of Chinese medicine, it is true that Chinese medicine farming and planting with the traditional pure wild from the efficacy of a great difference. But we can not put the reduced efficacy of Chinese medicine is entirely to blame, we need to look for more from their own reasons, the big picture is this, the key is how we look for efficacy and quality of stable drugs in this environment, we can not be superstitious in the special therapeutic effect of a single drug, should be based on a strict dialectic based on the overall grasp of the patient’s system, in order to formulate a prescription for medication, to achieve a good therapeutic effect, to be familiar with the use of each of the drugs, to be used in a good way, and to be familiar with the use of each of the drugs, to achieve a good treatment! To be familiar with the use of each drug, from the origin, authenticity, production, price, and the most basic aspects of the flavor of the familiar to grasp the prescription is not peculiar, but lies in the evidence of treatment, the choice of drugs does not lie in a wide range of complicated, but in the strict grasp of each drug, personal knowledge is that the price of the cheap common drugs fake drugs inferior drugs less likely to be. In addition, the clinical doctor should not only focus on the clinical, to communicate with the pharmacist in a timely manner, many Chinese medicine doctors do not recognize the Chinese medicine, which is extremely wrong, we must continue to know the medicine tasted medicine, so that there will be a better understanding of the drug, in order to better grasp. The author believes that the current market for Chinese herbal medicines can basically meet the needs of treatment.