In 2012, the incident of “excessive chromium capsules” aroused strong concern in the society and caused public panic. Many people are afraid of capsules, and some people even pour out the medicine powder in the capsules to take, as if the chromium content exceeds the standard capsules become highly toxic substances. In fact, China’s limits on chromium content in pharmaceutical capsules are the strictest in the world, with the Chinese Pharmacopoeia stipulating that the chromium content in capsules should not exceed 2 ppm (2 mg per kg), compared to 10 ppm (10 mg per kg) in Europe. Many people already know through the “chromium overload capsules” incident that prolonged or high dose intake of the heavy metal chromium can cause kidney damage, and may also have mutagenic and carcinogenic effects. But many people do not know that there is a heavy metal than chromium more toxic and more terrible, but is used directly as a medicine, and is clearly included in the national pharmacopoeia, which is mercury, the raw material is the famous common Chinese medicine cinnabar. Cinnabar is just a mineral found in nature. The terrible thing is that cinnabar is highly toxic and the damage to the human body is very certain and serious. However, the vast majority of people have taken herbal medicines containing vermilion to a greater or lesser extent, and many children even still take them regularly. It is hoped that those who have the ability to discriminate will correctly recognize the dangers of vermilion through this article and refuse to take this poisonous medicine. Cinnabar, also known as tansa and cinnabar, is a natural mineral with mercury sulfide as its main component, and also contains soluble mercury salts such as mercuric chloride and free mercury. Cinnabar is widely used as a dye, first appearing in painted pottery at Dadiwan in Qin’an and in lacquer bowls at the Hemudu site, and later used for writing (oracle bone inscriptions, bamboo and wood journals), painting (pottery products), printing and dyeing (textiles), painting (lacquerware), and also as a major raw material for the ancient prescription priests to make elixirs of immortality. Since ancient times, cinnabar has been regarded by Chinese medicine practitioners as a top quality herbal medicine. In traditional Chinese medicine, cinnabar was first used as a medicine in Shennong Ben Cao Jing, which has a history of more than 2000 years. Most of the medicinal herbs of the past generations have been highly esteemed for vermilion, and vermilion is regarded as the first medicine to calm the mind. Shennong Ben Cao Jing: sweet in taste, slightly cold, non-toxic. The main body five organs of a hundred diseases, nourishing the spirit, the soul, benefit the qi, bright eyes, kill the spirit of evil ghosts. Treatise on the Nature of Medicine: It is very poisonous. The heart, the main body resistance, wind, culmination of persuasion exorcism Dad to take off the crippling “the herb derivative”: the heart and mind. Tangliu Ben Cao: Heart fever cannot be removed without this. The materia medica mongxian”: calm the heart and nourish the mind, through the regulation of blood vessels, kill ghosts and spirits. Ben Cao Zong Xin: It is used to relieve the evil heat in the heart meridian, to calm the heart and to calm panic. It detoxifies the heart and calms the mind. Ben Jing Shu Zhi Zhi (Classic of the Essence): Dansha is extremely versatile. The Compendium of Materia Medica: Nourishes the heart, heart and blood, kidneys, spleen, and fetus. This is the first time that the Chinese medicine has been used in the world. This is almost as absurd as witchcraft, but it can also be seen as the secret book of the king of medicine with poisonous hands. The performance after taking vermilion is essentially poisoning after the depression, other symptoms relegated to secondary contradictions, of course, there is no “restlessness” or “excitement and madness” (Chinese medicine believes that this is the disease, there are ghosts into the body) phenomenon. The other major oddity in Chinese medicine is the “child’s frightening wind”, which is considered to be a wind or frightening condition that requires the use of vermilion to “calm the fright”. Responsible parents should think carefully about what is the reason for their child’s restlessness or crying. The most common ones are hunger, thirst, discomfort, and babies and toddlers who can’t express themselves verbally are of course crying to get attention. Instead of taking a serious look to find the cause, the child is given vermilion, and the child does stop crying because it is poisoned. This is also the result of the crude idea that Chinese medicine has traditionally eliminated symptoms and never looked for the cause. It is Chinese medicine that is literally treating the symptoms but not the cause. There is a representative report of a few months old baby who cried continuously, feeding and watering, cleaning and peeing did not work, so the parents asked the old Chinese doctor for advice. The TCM practitioner thought it was a case of pediatric fright and needed to take vermilion. After continuous medication, the effect was remarkable and the child was much quieter, but a few days later it was discovered that the red rope tied to the child’s wrist was so tight that one hand was completely necrotic. As you can imagine, the rope strangled deeply into the wrist made the child so painful that he had to cry incessantly to seek help from his parents. Instead of examining the child carefully, the ignorant parents used vermilion to stop the child’s “frightening winds” and “convulsions”. Infants do not have complex emotions and thoughts, so how can they be frightened? They are just uncomfortable. Seeing this, I’m sure there will be TCM practitioners and TCM fans jumping to their feet and cursing, saying that TCM cannot be measured by modern scientific standards. But the facts will never change, and the ancient Chinese were not all foolish and lying people. The symptoms of cinnabar poisoning have been documented for a long time, such as in “The Materia Medica Preparation”, which says: “Taking too much of it makes people demented”; and “The Materia Medica from the New”, which says: “It makes people dull and bored”. However, mainstream Chinese medicine practitioners have not recognized the toxic side effects of vermilion, and have even deliberately suppressed related statements, insisting that vermilion be regarded as a good medicine. Science has irrefutably proven that mercury is a heavy metal that is highly toxic, and that its compounds are also highly toxic. Numerous studies have shown that cinnabar can cause serious damage to the nervous system, liver and kidneys. Excessive consumption of vermilion can lead to acute poisoning, the main symptoms of which are oliguria, amniocentesis, uremia, nausea, vomiting, etc. Too high a concentration can cross the blood-brain barrier and damage the central system and cause death. Mercury is excreted slowly in the body, and small doses of vermilion can accumulate in the body for a long time, causing chronic poisoning and incalculable damage to the body. Animal experiments have shown that mercury sulfide (the main component of vermilion) cannot be absorbed in rats, and that the absorbed mercury comes from the free mercury and soluble mercury salts in vermilion, indicating that the heavy metal mercury is the real active ingredient, and that the so-called medicinal effects produced by vermilion are the manifestations of mercury poisoning, such as less movement and slower reaction, which is the truth about tranquilization and sedation. In addition, the evidence that mercury causes fetal stunting is overwhelming, but there are still pregnant women who take drugs containing vermilion to “calm the fetus”. The fetus is quieted, but this is actually mercury entering the fetus through the placental barrier (the umbrella of the fetus), directly inhibiting the fetus’ vitality and causing great damage. What can this be if not ignorance? In the face of hard evidence from modern science, the Chinese Pharmacopoeia had to state that cinnabar is “poisonous”, but then reproduced the absurdity of the ancient understanding of cinnabar’s supposed nature and taste, calling it “sweet”. In terms of function and treatment, the pharmacopoeia describes vermilion as: “Clears the heart, calms the mind, brightens the eyes, and detoxifies. It is used for palpitations, insomnia and dreaminess, epilepsy and frenzy, children’s frightening wind, dimness of vision ……” From the application of the pharmacopoeia to the description of ancient texts, it is easy to see that the so-called calming and tranquilizing effect of taking drugs containing vermilion is very similar to the symptoms of heavy metal poisoning. Among the regulations for the content of harmful elements in medicines, mercury is extremely strict, only at the microgram level. In contrast, the content of mercury can be imprecisely determined for traditional Chinese medicine, and is only replaced by the vermilion content. The pharmacopoeia gives a dosage of 0.1 to 0.5g of vermilion (referring to adults per day), but 170 herbal medicines contain more vermilion than the standard, up to four times the standard. The latest version of the pharmacopoeia had to suggest that “Vermilion is toxic and should not be taken in large quantities, nor in small amounts for long periods of time, and is prohibited for pregnant women and those with liver and kidney insufficiency.” It should be noted here that mercury and its compounds are elements that the human body does not need and are more toxic than chromium (chromium is a trace element that the body needs and is only harmful if the intake is too high). At the same time, there is no real evidence of the efficacy of vermilion, and even though it is said that “medicine is poisonous in three parts”, there is no harm in taking vermilion. In addition, in reality, the phenomenon of large doses and long-term use of vermilion is very common, there is no effective regulatory measures for the abuse of vermilion in Chinese medicine, any licensed or unlicensed Chinese medicine practitioner can prescribe vermilion at will, the dosage of each according to its own. Even in cases of poisoning, it does not matter as long as it is not mass or directly causes death. And chronic poisoning is something that patients cannot identify and make allegations about, and the TCM community does not have to take any responsibility. There is no safety basis for vermilion, a commonly used superior medicine in TCM since ancient times. Some studies have shown that the quiet performance of children after taking herbs containing vermilion is not a calming effect, but rather mental depression due to poisoning, which is a very frightening method of sedation. It was not until after extensive modern scientific research had conclusively proven the toxicity that it was still legally used in Chinese herbal medicine, even in extensive and large doses for children. According to statistics, there are as many as 300 different prescription preparations containing cinnabar in the four major drug standards in force in China, accounting for more than 5% of all traditional Chinese medicines. Some of them are as follows: One Twist of Gold, Twenty-five Flavors Pine Stone Pill, Twenty-five Flavors Coral Pill, Ten Fragrance Return to Life Pill, Seven Precious Pills (Dan), Seven Percent San, Wan’s Niuhuang Qingxin Pill, Pediatric Baishou Pill, Pediatric Zhibao Pill, Pediatric Jindan Tablet, Pediatric Panic Pill, Pediatric Clear Fever Tablet, Tianwang Tonic Heart Pill, One Pill for Toothache, Niuhuang Qianjin San, Niuhuang Baolong Pill, Niuhuang Qingxin Pill, Niuhuang Zhenzhen Pill, Niuhuang Qingbao, Niuhuang Qingbao, Vermilion Tranquilizer Pill Jiu Zhu Wan, Ren Qing Man Jue, Ren Qing Chang Jue, Bing Bor San, An Gong Niu Huang Wan, An Gong Niu Huang San, Hong Ling San, Su He Xiang Wan, Medical Epilepsy Pills, Kidney Beneficial Brain Tablets, Bureau Zhi Bao San, Pure Yang Zheng Qi Wan, Bao Long Wan, Bo Zi Yang Xin Wan, Gastrointestinal Security Pills, Xiang Su Zheng Gastric Pills, Bao Chi San, Yi Yuan San, Plum Blossom Dot Tongue Pills, Amber Dragon Pills, Zi Jin Jiao, Zi Xue Dan, Zhi Bao Dan, Liu Shen Wan, Heat Stroke Tablets, Shu Liver Pills, Gua Sha Pills, Gua Sha Pills The medicine is used in modern human medicine. The direct use of heavy metals in medicine is a strange phenomenon in modern human society, a foolish and cruel act that seriously violates scientific principles, and is a direct destruction of people’s health. However, whether the drug regulatory authorities or the media, the public, ignoring such a terrible phenomenon, but on the contrary, “chromium exceeds the standard capsules” of relatively minor harm set off a furore. This can’t help but wonder what forces are covering up and protecting the appalling cruelty of cinnabar in medicine? There is no real evidence of the efficacy of cinnabar, its toxicity does not require any further research and verification, the Chinese medicine manufacturers and drug regulatory authorities are well aware of this. Why is it still in the medicine knowingly toxic? In the end, it’s a matter of industry interest. Once it is admitted that vermilion is toxic, hundreds of Chinese medicines will not be sold, the annual loss can reach tens of billions of dollars, the myth that Chinese medicines have few side effects will also be punctured. In the face of interest, the relevant beneficiary groups, emboldened by the policy of ignorance, will certainly choose to sacrifice the health and even the lives of the people. Objectively, because chronic poisoning is undetectable to patients and it is difficult to accuse toxic Chinese medicine when health is found to be impaired, Chinese medicine manufacturers and regulators are fully capable of playing patients in the palm of their hands as long as there is not a concentrated outbreak of group adverse reactions. Therefore, they are intentionally destroying people’s health for profit.