Patient: Description (onset time, main symptoms, hospital visited, etc.): My brother has been suffering from schizophrenia for about 5 years, and his main symptoms are insomnia, excessive dreaming, often saying that someone is harming him, that someone is affecting his normal life, that someone is following him, and that someone is spitting on him on the road. From time to time, he will argue and hit people and damage things (the people he is arguing and hitting he thinks are harming him), and now we are seeing him at the Rehabilitation Clinic affiliated with Kunming Medical College. I’ve been prescribed some western medicine at the local psychiatric hospital, but I stopped taking it after too many side effects. I’d like to ask if my brother can be treated well for this disease. Now we are in the rehabilitation clinic affiliated with Kunming Medical College prescribed some drugs, these drugs are: nourishing blood and tranquilizing tablets, Shu Shen Ling capsules, and two other I forget what, the doctor said all Chinese medicine. The doctor in this hospital said it can be good, but I do not believe it. Please see if you can see my brother’s illness in this hospital? What should I do in the future? Professor Li Jianzhong of the Mental Health Department of the Second Hospital of Qiqihar Medical College: Most schizophrenia can be cured or basically cured at once, but it is easy to relapse after stopping the medication. Your brother’s diagnosis should be “schizophrenia (paranoid type)”, which is basically ineffective if it is treated with pure Chinese medicine. You should be hospitalized in a regular local psychiatric hospital. If the side effects are large, you can change the medication or reduce the dosage, but it is not sensible to stop the medication. Patient: Thank you.