In the past two days, a family member of a schizophrenic patient came to the clinic with a Chinese medicine bought at a high price and asked if the medicine was effective. I brought it in and saw that it was a bottle of fake medicine. This is not the first or second time that I have encountered this situation. In clinical work, many patients and their families have trusted the advertisements and spent a lot of money on “so-and-so No. 1” and “so-and-so No. 2”, but the efficacy was not good and the treatment was delayed. The treatment of mental illness, regular Chinese medicine means of treatment include: Chinese herbal medicine, the doctor prescribes the patient to catch the medicine, home boiled into soup medicine taken every day; proprietary Chinese medicine, the regular pharmaceutical companies produce a variety of capsules, pills, oral liquid, etc., the regular proprietary Chinese medicine must have the State Drug quasi-letter, that is, the batch number, no State Drug quasi-letter number is not a drug; and acupuncture, massage and other methods. You can identify them from the following points: 1. free means, say free to eat six months of Chinese medicine, do not pay, six months after the monthly cost of hundreds to thousands of drugs, the essence is the cheap Western medicine ground up mixed into the Chinese medicine powder; 2. high prices, the cost of a month from a few hundred to a few thousand; generally are capsule preparations, called a certain 1, 2, No. 3, etc.; 3. no state medicine quasi-letter, if there is also counterfeit; 4. Mostly through the mail and other ways to buy, individual also through the pharmacy or even the hospital to buy; regular psychiatric hospitals do not have the same drugs. Please don’t believe in advertisements and the experience of patients, please keep your eyes open and don’t believe in ancestral traditions and so on. The reason why it is a capsule preparation is because you can grind the western medicine, mix it into the Chinese medicine powder, and then put it into the capsule, claiming it to be pure Chinese medicine, but in reality it is just a combination of different antipsychotic drugs and Valium-type drugs. There are also hospitals that only allow patients to take medicine in the hospital, and do not allow the herbs to take away, only allow the patients in the hospital by the hospital decoction to take away, the drug is very expensive claiming that there is saffron and other expensive drugs, God knows you take away the liquid inside there is no this expensive drugs, according to me is to cheat the people’s money. I have seen the results of eating this so-called pure Chinese medicine appeared extrapyramidal side effects: hand tremors, muscle tightness, high muscle tone, and extrapyramidal side effects will only appear in the process of taking antipsychotic drugs, but also broke open this capsule, carefully identify the results found a very small piece of white tablets that are not ground, all of which means that fake Chinese medicine capsules are fraudulent and can not be trusted, these fake drugs may have some therapeutic effect Even the effect is very good, because the addition of clozapine, the best treatment for schizophrenia is also the most side effects, the cheapest drug, but the harm is too great, because I do not know what kind of medicine to eat, for side effects, the expiration date of the drug are ignorant. What makes me most angry is that mental illness patients and families are already unfortunate enough to be cheated out of ignorance of disease treatment, causing both financial losses and delays in disease treatment. To remind, for serious mental illness, including schizophrenia, mania, major depressive disorder,, Chinese medicine plays an auxiliary treatment role, let’s say, when eating need buns and rice these staple food to eat full, drink some porridge can only play the role of supplementary food, not full stomach, Chinese medicine plays this role of porridge. It is still necessary to rely on the regular systemic treatment of Western medicine. Appropriate Chinese medicine treatment can reduce the side effects of drugs, improve the efficacy and improve compliance with medication. For mild to moderate depression and other mild mental illnesses, Chinese medicine still has advantages. For example, for mild depression, insomnia, anxiety and somatization disorders, TCM treatment may play an important role, for example, for mild insomnia, some Chinese medicine preparations such as Sweet Dreams Capsules, Xin Shen Ning and Wu Ling Capsules will have better effects. Lastly, I would like to mention that TCM psychotherapy is a science based on the theory and practice of TCM, combined with the knowledge of modern psychology, to study the psychological phenomena of Chinese people, the laws of mental illness and treatment, and is a secondary discipline of TCM. TIP therapy is a localized psychotherapy, called low-impedance idea introduction therapy, which is a combination of traditional Chinese medicine qigong therapy and western hypnotherapy and cognitive therapy, and through verbal and behavioral induction, the treated person enters a certain intermediate state of the process from wakefulness to sleep, and the therapist constitutes a certain “idea, concept” (concept, idea) consisting of verbal and behavioral information according to certain therapeutic needs. “TIP is a method of treatment that is based on verbal and behavioral information composed by the therapist according to certain therapeutic needs (including various psychotherapeutic methods and techniques from ancient and modern times and from China and abroad), which is introduced to the treated person and affects the memory and implicit cognition of the treated person, so that the patient can get psychological treatment and psychological rehabilitation. The unique advantage of TIP therapy, combined with our self-developed retrospective personality questionnaire, is that it can identify the personality problems of patients during their growth process and allow the defective personalities of depression and anxiety patients to grow again during treatment, thus reshaping their personalities, improving the personality susceptibility of anxiety and depression patients, improving patients’ treatment compliance, reducing the relapse rate, and potentially improving patients’ prognosis fundamentally. This therapy is also in line with the characteristic of Chinese medicine that the treatment must be based on the root of the disease.