Schizophrenia is a chronic, progressive mental illness. The key is early detection, early treatment, and an adequate amount and course of treatment. The most important part of schizophrenia treatment is the first treatment! It is important to achieve complete remission of symptoms. This requires that the dose of medication be adequate and as high as possible. After complete remission of symptoms, do not rush to reduce the dose, but at least maintain the highest dose for more than 6 months (after remission), but longer if possible. Some domestic and foreign experts now believe that this maximum dose should be used for the entire duration of treatment (3-5 years) for second-generation drugs with few side effects. The maintenance period is generally considered to be 3-5 years, but the longer the better, because schizophrenia is a highly relapse-prone disease, and the treatment and prognosis for relapse are not ideal. There is no consensus on the maintenance period, with 3 years being the least. Patients with two to three relapses need to be on medication for life. This is why we attach great importance to the first onset and the first treatment. Other second-generation drugs with few long-term side effects include quetiapine, aripiprazole, olanzapine and others. Among them, imported original drugs are better, but cost up to $1000-3000 per month. Under-treatment of schizophrenia is a common problem. Inadequate doses of medication and premature reductions in medication are common. Simply put, if symptoms disappear completely after treatment, and then return within 6 months, the treatment is generally considered inadequate. If the symptoms reappear after more than 6 months, it is considered a relapse. Other methods such as Chinese herbal medicine and witchcraft may only have some psychological effects. In addition, you should pay special attention; don’t believe any medical advertisement, no matter it is in famous newspapers, TV, radio, or by celebrities (non-professionals) in any place. Only the professional opinion given by a specialist doctor in a regular specialist hospital is meaningful. (There are “doctors” in front of all the major hospitals, luring patients or family members as patients). As far as psychiatric specialties are concerned, there is no Chinese medicine that has a separate effect on mental illness. Usually, they are only partially complementary. In the field of psychiatric specialties, medication is the most important for some important diseases that may lead to serious adverse consequences. Other methods are of secondary importance.