Chinese medicine has no side effects Because Chinese medicine mainly comes from natural flowers, trees, minerals and animals (of course, there are many artificial ones nowadays), it basically does not undergo much chemical processing, and its purity and concentration are not as high as those of Western medicine, so many people think that Chinese medicine has no side effects. This view is incorrect. There is no one thing in nature that exists for human diseases, but humans use some of the properties of these substances to serve themselves. This is like a double-edged sword, you use this side of it, its side may have another effect on your body, but sometimes it is large and sometimes small, sometimes it is not easy for people to notice, and some can not be detected. Many drugs, including Chinese and Western medicines are like this, at first its adverse reactions are not yet discovered, but over time it slowly becomes apparent. This is like knowing someone, the road is far away, and the day is long. If there is no effect at all, then its therapeutic effect does not exist. Second, Chinese medicine treats the root cause and Western medicine treats the symptoms This is also incorrect. “Chinese medicine treats the root” probably comes from the principle of “cure must be sought at the root” in Chinese medicine. This principle itself is correct. In order to clarify this issue, it is necessary to clarify what is the symptoms and what is the root. The symptoms are the external manifestation of the disease, which is the phenomenon, and the root cause of the disease, which is the essence. Take the upper respiratory tract virus infection, which causes fever, to illustrate. Fever is the external manifestation, the phenomenon, and viral infection is the cause, the essence. But why do you have a viral infection? It turns out that your ability to resist viral attack is reduced. From this point of view, the viral infection is just a manifestation, the underlying cause is your decreased resistance 。。。。。 Further down the analysis, it is more complicated. So the root and the symptoms are relative. Of course as medical practitioners, we should always explore the root cause of the disease that causes it. In this issue, Chinese medicine and Western medicine are actually in agreement. At this point, it is easy to understand why it is wrong to say that “Chinese medicine treats the root cause and Western medicine treats the symptoms”. Chinese medicine was born in ancient China, and was limited by the level of scientific development at the time, especially in our ancient China, which has not yet formed a modern scientific system in the true sense of the word, people’s knowledge of disease is limited. Many ancient people think that the “cure”, using the modern scientific point of view is only “treating the symptoms”. Western medicine treats the symptoms, but Western medicine also focuses more on treating the root cause. After all, Chinese medicine is looking at things from a different perspective, and it can play a very good complementary role in the case of modern medicine that is not very developed. But as TCM people, we must keep a clear head, not to be presumptuous, and not too superstitious, always adhere to the realistic, objective thinking, so that TCM, the simple experience of our countless ancestors with life for our health better service.