In the past, people generally believed that Chinese medicine had no toxic side effects on the human body, so they could choose it at will and take it for a long time; today, some people talk about “gentian diarrhea of the liver” and other Chinese medicines containing “guanmutong” because of some clinical reports that “guanmutong” can damage the human kidneys. Today, some people are afraid to avoid the Chinese medicine containing “Guanmutong” because of some clinical reports that “Guanmutong” can damage the human kidney. In fact, both concepts are misconceptions about the application of Chinese medicine. The author’s humble opinion on how to view the toxic side effects of Chinese medicine. 1, all Chinese medicines have different degrees of toxic side effects on the human body. Chinese medicine itself is to use the toxicity of drugs to treat diseases. As the Rites of Zhou says: “The physician holds the political order of the doctor, and gathers poisonous drugs for the common medical service”. However, Chinese medicine’s understanding of drug toxicity refers to the bias of drugs, i.e., hot drugs have hot toxicity, cold drugs have cold toxicity, and so on. The partial nature of drugs (toxicity) is the basis for Chinese medicine to treat diseases. Because Chinese medicine is based on the identification of the evidence, the bias of the medicine, the treatment of human deviation. Hot disease with cold medicine, cold disease with hot medicine; deficiency of the tonic, the real diarrhea, etc.. If the identification is not correct, the use of drugs is not appropriate, so that the cold is cold, the hot is hot, the deficient is damaged, and the real is replenished. The drugs used will naturally produce toxic side effects on the human body. As stated in the “Medical Method Roundup”: “When the disease is served, the sapodilla, rhubarb, arsenic are the most precious; when the disease is not served, ginseng, antler, wolfberry are arsenic.” Therefore, we have to face the reality and admit that not only “Guan Mu Tong” and “Gentian diarrhea of the liver” can cause damage to the human kidney when used improperly. Moreover, all Chinese medicines can cause different degrees of damage to different organs of the human body if the standards and scales of their application (the standard scales of Chinese medicine) are not accurately grasped. Just as people have long recognized that Western medicine has toxic side effects and cannot be taken arbitrarily, casually, or for a long time, Chinese medicine also has toxic side effects and cannot be taken arbitrarily, casually, or for a long time. Chinese medicine should be applied under the correct guidance of a Chinese medicine doctor. 2. Chinese medicine can avoid its toxic side effects by using traditional Chinese medicine. In the early days of Chinese medicine treatment, it was found that not only was the medicine inaccurate, it could produce toxic side effects on the human body, and even if the medicine used was accurate, it was often a cure for this hindrance. Therefore, in the long-term clinical practice of using medicine, Chinese medicine has summed up a very complete theoretical system. This is that Chinese medicine treats diseases with a compound formula of “ruler, minister, adjuvant and ambassador”, thus improving the therapeutic effect of drugs and avoiding their toxic side effects. It can be seen that Chinese medicine has been used for thousands of years, giving people a good impression of safety and effectiveness without toxic side effects, not because of the Chinese medicine itself, but because of the Chinese medicine to treat diseases. 3. The clinical reports on the toxic side effects of Chinese medicine are not the fault of Chinese medicine itself. The toxic side effects from the application of Chinese medicine are due to the fact that the people who use the medicine do not guide the clinical use of the medicine according to the theoretical system of Chinese medicine. Even, there are people who do not know the theoretical system of Chinese medicine (including those so-called Chinese medicine doctors who do not really know the theory and clinical application of Chinese medicine), according to the symptoms, according to the western name of the disease, haphazardly use Chinese medicine to treat patients; there are also patients themselves according to the symptoms, according to the name of the disease, the choice of medicine to treat the disease. How can we blame Chinese medicine itself for the toxic side effects caused by treating diseases with Chinese medicine, which is detached from the theoretical system of discriminatory treatment in Chinese medicine? 4. Only those who are well versed in the theories of TCM can use Chinese medicine to treat diseases for human beings. The reason is that Chinese medicine treats diseases by choosing the corresponding bias of Chinese medicine to treat diseases according to the pathological mechanism of the body’s qi, blood, yin and yang, cold, heat and deficiency, rather than choosing medicine to treat diseases according to their names and symptoms. Take cold as an example, we have to use the theory of Chinese medicine to analyze whether the pathogenesis of cold is wind-cold and binds the surface, or wind-heat offending the lung; whether it is wind-cold and binds the surface and closes the heat inside, or wind-cold and binds the surface and closes the dampness inside, and so on. If the disease mechanism is different, the treatment method and medicine will be different. Therefore, the cold and fever clearing punch can never treat all people’s colds, and at the same time, it can not treat all periods of a patient’s cold. Improper use of medicine will certainly produce toxic side effects. This is true for the treatment of colds. Not to mention those acute and chronic diseases with very complex pathogenesis! Only by understanding the theory of Chinese medicine and using the medicine according to the way of thinking of Chinese medicine can we avoid the appearance of toxic side effects of Chinese medicine. Therefore, it is a policy mistake to treat Chinese medicine as over-the-counter drugs and let doctors or patients who do not know the theory of TCM choose them at will, which will certainly cause many clinical mis-treatments. The damage to human kidney caused by “guanmutong” and “gentian laxative” is not the fault of “guanmutong” and “gentian laxative” themselves. themselves. Rather, it is the fault of those who use “Guanmutong” and “Gentian diarrhea of the liver” indiscriminately for a long time against the theory of Chinese medicine for weight loss, fire removal, detoxification and so on. If we don’t solve the problem of people using Chinese medicine indiscriminately against the theory of Chinese medicine, but just block “Guanmutong” and “Gentian diarrhea of the liver”, there will be more clinical reports of damage to different organs of the human body from other Chinese medicines in the future. Are we going to block them all?