In the long struggle between human beings and diseases, antibiotics have indeed made a certain contribution to human health, but the view and practice of over-reliance on antibiotics and treating them as a life-saving remedy is extremely one-sided and incorrect.
There is a folk saying that “medicine is three parts poison.” Antibiotics are no exception. Professor Lu Guangxin of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine pointed out that “antibiotics are like ‘pesticides’ for the human body.”
This is a very accurate analogy. He also points out that “any exogenous substitution and supplementation has adverse effects on life and health.” The “pesticide” effect of the widespread, massive, long-term use of antibiotics has also been fully revealed.
Its defects and hazards are as follows.
A, the rapid mutation of the pathogen: because of the antibiotics into the human body, regardless of its mechanism of action, the result is to kill the pathogen or inhibit its reproduction, in order to continuously improve the clinical efficacy, the renewal of antibiotics is also in constant progress. In the battle with pathogens, the end result is the mutation of the pathogens, and the continuous rapid renewal and increase in the variety of antibiotics, the pathogens also mutate rapidly. The current increasing spectrum of diseases is the result of long-term application of antibiotics leading to the mutation of pathogens.
Second, the increase of drug-resistant strains: due to the long-term, large number of antibiotics, widely used in the clinical, resulting in pathogens to antibiotics significantly reduced sensitivity or loss of sensitivity. In the bacterial susceptibility tests conducted on hospitalized patients, often see some immobile bacteria, what antibiotics have lost their effect on these bacteria, which is also due to the consequences of the mutation of pathogens formed by antibiotics, the current trend of increasing drug-resistant strains of bacteria, causing new difficulties for clinical treatment.
Third, human suffering increased: in order to deal with drug-resistant bacteria, had to develop new antibiotics, the current variety of antibiotics, the development of the rapid than expected. This spending a lot of human and material resources and pathogens of the end of the battle is the human fiasco, the human burden increased, increased suffering, the ultimate injury is human. The first is the increase in medical costs, the second is the damage to human functions, mental and physical torture.
Fourth, can not produce immune substances and inhibit the immune function of the body: antibiotics inhibit the immune function of the body mechanism is mainly.
1, inhibit and destroy the proliferation and function of immune cells;
2, inhibit the production of immune substances and interfere with their activity; its these destructive effects are achieved from two aspects: one is the direct damage to the immune system; the second is to make the body lose the opportunity to produce immune substances. Immune substances are formed by the body in the process of mutual struggle with microorganisms and are an important manifestation of the body’s resistance.
This is how human health is acquired and maintained during the long-term struggle with pathogens. Immune substances are the result of the continuous action of pathogens and human tissues and require a certain process and time to be produced. When the body is stimulated by a foreign body, the immune cells proliferate and chemotactic, then wrap it, engulf it, digest it, break it down, and finally expel it from the body. Through such a complete process of resisting the foreign body, the organism automatically produces immune substances.
Antibiotics make the pathogens quickly destroyed or mutated, tissue cells can not and pathogens sustained action, also lost the conditions and opportunities to produce immune substances, the body’s immune system can not be recognized and can not produce the corresponding antibodies in a timely manner, so that the body’s immunity is reduced.
Fifth, can not remove the pathogens that have been killed: the human body has the natural ability to resist and remove foreign substances, this ability is the result of long-term human evolution. After the foreign body enters the body, the body will produce many immune cells with phagocytosis, through the phagocytosis of foreign bodies, digestion, decomposition, and eventually expel them from the body.
The antibiotics have the ability to kill some of the pathogens, but not the ability to remove them. The pathogens that cannot be killed by antibiotics, and the fragments and toxins that are released after they are killed, still need to rely on the body’s own action to expel them.
Six, damage to tissues and organs: antibiotics on human tissue damage is very obvious, there are two main aspects: one is the pathogen destruction after the formation of debris and the release of toxic substances on the human tissue damage effect; the body itself to resist the pathogen is to swallow it intact, and in the cells for decomposition, will not cause damage to tissue cells. In contrast, these fragments and toxins after the action of antibiotics are present outside the cells and cause damage by coming into direct contact with tissues and organs.
At the same time, as the pathogen continues to be destroyed, the toxic substances in the tissue interstitial space are also increasing, and are constantly absorbed into the blood and cause toxemia.
The second is the direct damage caused by the antibiotics themselves to the body tissues; all antibiotics have obvious toxic effects on the human body, can cause damage to multiple organs, the most vulnerable to antibiotics damage organs are the kidneys, lungs, liver, and the toxic effects on the nervous system, hematopoietic system, digestive system in the clinic is also common, there are data show that a significant proportion of seriously ill patients in the hospital before the admission of the There is information that a significant number of serious patients have caused renal insufficiency, call insufficiency, hepatic insufficiency before admission to the hospital, tracing their medical history, are related to the use of antibiotics.
Seven, dysbiosis: ancestral medicine that: people as an organic whole, is the product of the unity of heaven and earth, and nature maintains a relationship of unity of opposites. The human body and nature, the human body and other organisms, the human body itself between the systems to maintain a balanced and harmonious relationship of interdependence, mutual constraints, these normal balance and harmony once broken, leading to the occurrence of disease.
Modern medicine believes that: some of the human body and the outside world cavity, there are a large number of various microorganisms, these microorganisms live in the human body for a long time, between them, between them and the human body after a long period of evolution, has formed a kind of mutual symbiosis, coexistence of the unified whole, if a part of the power imbalance, disease will inevitably occur. Antibiotics are the main culprit in disrupting this balance, often resulting in a lot of complications due to dysbiosis in the human body, and this phenomenon is numerous in clinical practice.
In addition, antibiotics cannot kill all pathogens, such as bacteriophages and viruses, and they cannot repair damaged body tissues.
The actual antibiotics can only play a supplementary role, not a fundamental role. Therefore, we need to have an objective understanding of antibiotics, to base the maintenance of health on the body’s resistance to cultivate, as well as the motherland medicine on the viewpoint of health maintenance, can not readily rely on antibiotics and other foreign substances.