I. Correctly understand the “poison” of “medicine is three parts poison” The saying “medicine is three parts poison” has made a simple summary of the nature of Chinese medicine, which is the same as the summary “sugar is sweet”, “salt is salty”, “vinegar is sour”, “chili is spicy”. This is the same as generalizing “sugar is sweet”, “salt is salty”, “vinegar is sour” and “chili is spicy”. Only by giving full play to the strengths of each person can society burst into life and mankind will progress. The same applies to Chinese medicine. Only by making full use of its partiality can there be hope for the body’s recovery. The reason why Chinese medicine is called Chinese medicine is mainly because of its partiality, which was called “toxicity” in ancient times. The so-called partial nature is relative to the neutral nature, which is just more salty, more bitter, more spicy, more sweet, more sour. Flat plants can be used as food, while deviant plants, foods and some minerals are used as medicine. The so-called “poison” is the general term for these drugs in ancient medical literature. Zhang Jinyue cloud: “medicine to cure diseases, because the poison for the ability, the so-called poison, is the smell of bias. Cover the odor of the right, the genus of grain and food, so nourish people’s vitality. The odor of the bias, the genus of medicine and bait, so go to the people of the evil. The reason for this is that people are sick, sick in the yin and yang bias ear. Is all can ward off the evil and positive, can be called poison, so said poison to attack the evil.” Zhang’s treatise explains the broad meaning of poison and clarifies that toxicity is one of the properties of drugs. Medicine is a kind of bias, and Chinese medicine treats diseases with the “toxicity” of Chinese medicine, that is, the bias. “The basic principle of Chinese medicine is to treat diseases with drugs. “Medicine” is the substance that cures diseases, and “poison” is one of the properties of medicine, so the ancient people call medicine “poison”. The Rites of Zhou – Heavenly Palace Chapter: “The physician is in charge of the political order of the doctor, and gathers poison for the medical service.” Chinese ancestors have gone through a long process of practice and experimentation in order to discover and understand the toxicity of drugs and their therapeutic effects, and paid a huge price for it. For example, “Huainanzi – Xiuwu training” cloud: “Shennong tasted the taste of a hundred herbs, a day and encountered seventy poisons.” (Here, many people mistakenly think that it was Shennong who was poisoned seventy times in one day, wrong too, it was Shennong who discovered that seventy of these grasses could be used as medicine in the process of tasting the hundred herbs.) For thousands of years, our ancestors, for the sake of human health, went to great lengths, risked their lives, personally tasted medicines, and repeatedly practiced them. It is this spirit of sacrifice of our ancestors that summed up rich experiences and theories, and left a rich medicinal heritage for our future generations. Gathering poisons and curing diseases is the ancestors’ knowledge and application of the nature and taste of medicine. People, who live in the natural environment, can only know what is the medicine to cure diseases and what is the poison to cause diseases by the body’s own perception. The ancestral method of tasting herbs by mouth is the best way to know herbs and is the most responsible one. Only by one’s own perception can one truly appreciate the strength, goodness, authenticity and otherwise of the medicine. Second, the use of Chinese medicine theory into poison into medicine The ancient people said: “medicine expensive appropriate, the law when the strain, get it when, ocotillo can live; not its when, ginseng against to kill.” “All diseases are one poison, attack the poison with poison, the poison goes to the body peace.” In the theory of Chinese medicine, there is no indication of which drugs are absolutely poisonous or which drugs are absolutely non-poisonous. No matter what poison, as long as the correct use can be transformed into medicine. Whatever medicine is used incorrectly can also be transformed into poison. The doctor’s duty is to avoid harm and turn harm into benefit, to mobilize the favorable factors of drugs, to prevent and eliminate their unfavorable factors, and to turn poison into medicine, so as to help the human body to fight and heal diseases, and to transform diseases into health. In order to ensure the safety and effectiveness of drugs, our ancestors marked the characteristics of drugs in many herbal books to help future generations understand the characteristics of various drugs, to help us understand their effects of sharp or moderate, and to be able to select drugs and determine the dosage appropriately according to the coldness, heat, deficiency and shallowness of the disease. Through the necessary preparation, compounding and preparation, the harmful side of the drug is reduced or eliminated. The famous lyricist Xin Qiji of the Song Dynasty said, “There is no malice in things, but excess is a disaster. Chinese medicine is for human health, there is no good or evil in itself, the key is how people use it. The key is how people use it. “Rhubarb can save lives, but ginseng can kill people” refers to this. It is the law of nature that everything has its advantages and disadvantages. Chinese medicine is no exception, the right use has a therapeutic effect, but the wrong use has toxic side effects. Therefore, the essence of drug harm is human harm, not the drug itself. The experts do not see the essence of drug harm, only that the drug is harmful, regardless of the person is not. Such a one-sided understanding not only fails to solve the problem, but also leads people’s eyes astray and ignores the essence of the problem. Chinese medicine is about goodness, which is not for you to be kind-hearted, but to apply correctly and well. Good use of its effectiveness; not good use of the test, not its test, but suffer from its harm. The key to good use is the correct application of Chinese medical theory, the identification of the evidence, with the evidence of the use. To say that “improper use of Chinese medicine can produce side effects” is like saying that improper use of a kitchen knife can kill. Everyone knows that a kitchen knife can chop meat, cut vegetables, peel fruit, but bad guys can also use it to kill people, but which government has banned the people from using kitchen knives? Therefore, we do not need to focus on the function of the knife, but on how to use it. In the same way, in the identification and treatment of medicine, we should not focus our eyes on the bias of a certain medicine, but should feel how the doctor mixes and corrects the bias of the body with the bias of the medicine. For thousands of years, we have passed down the wisdom of our ancestors and carried it forward to make our nation flourish. However, in recent years, there have been more and more reports about the toxicity of Chinese medicine, and there have been many warnings from experts that “Chinese medicine is also toxic” and “Chinese medicine can have negative effects if used improperly”. Why are Chinese herbal medicines, which have been used for thousands of years by the Chinese, suddenly “toxic” and “toxic frequently”? Has our body become too modern to adapt to the ancient Chinese medicine, or is there another reason? Statistics show that among more than 500 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, about 70% of them have toxic reactions after overdose. Studies have confirmed that there are about 80 to 90 kinds of herbal medicines that can cause allergic reactions. Down “heavy medicine” can cause dizziness, head swelling, back pain, weakness and other side effects. –In the early 1990s, doctors in Belgium first discovered that a considerable number of “fat sisters-in-law” and “fat girls” were recklessly taking large amounts of Chinese herbs such as houpu and fenghuai in order to In the early 1990s, Belgian doctors first discovered that a considerable number of “fat sisters-in-law” and “fat girls” were taking large amounts of Chinese medicine such as Hou Pao and Fang Yi to lose weight quickly, but as a result, many of them suffered from acute kidney failure, so the new concept of “Chinese medicine nephropathy” was introduced. –The information from Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Region, the Institute of Nephrology of the whole army, is that the number of people suffering from nephritis and acute renal failure due to indiscriminate use of Chinese medicine is increasing. In this regard, Professor Lei Shi Lai, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an internationally renowned nephrologist, called for the need to raise awareness of herbal nephrotoxicity as soon as possible. — Unauthorized long-term use of gentian diarrhea liver pill and lead to kidney failure, some people in Taiwan due to the use of this drug led to liver replacement. –Aristolochic acid is a nephrotoxin that can cause massive loss of kidney tubules, leading to kidney failure, a typical “herbal nephropathy” that requires lifelong hemodialysis or kidney transplantation in severe cases. Aristolochic acid is also a potential carcinogen. Animal experiments have shown that consumption of aristolochic acid can lead to lymphoma, kidney cancer, liver cancer, stomach cancer and lung cancer. The above media reports and experts’ appeals can be said to be “solid evidence and scientifically rigorous”, but please chew on the “overdose” and “heavy medication”. “taking a large amount without any concern” “due to indiscriminate use of Chinese medicine” “aristolochic acid” “He Shou Wu preparation” and so on Words and phrases, have public opinion and experts accounted for the underlying problem? Who told you to overdose, carelessly and indiscriminately take? How can human beings be so stupid as to bash the chopper not to investigate the human disaster? The toxicity of Chinese medicine is the bias, and the treatment of Chinese medicine is to correct the bias of the body’s yin and yang with the bias of Chinese medicine. The Chinese medicine treatment is to correct the body’s yin and yang bias with the bias of Chinese medicine. Or is it the wrong medicine? “Aristolochic acid” “He Shou Wu preparation” is obviously a plant preparation of Western medicine, how to become Chinese medicine? The history of Chinese medicine is thousands of years, where can we find this ingredient and this preparation? The creator of Gentian Liver Pill did not say that this medicine can cure hepatitis, and the kidney failure caused by long-term heavy use is the evil result of the indiscriminate use of “Chinese medicine” by Western doctors, not by real Chinese doctors! The side effects and poisoning caused by abuse, reuse and misuse are not unique to Chinese medicine, but are common to almost everything: water can be poisoned if you drink too much; oxygen can be poisoned if you inhale too much; and the misuse of kitchen knives can kill. Science is a good thing, but it can be used to fake, it can be used to commit terrorist attacks, it can be used to commit crimes. By analogy, science, scientists are also toxic, because the most powerful weapons of killing are invented and manufactured by them. Environmental pollution, drug production, counterfeiting can mostly be labeled as science and technology. Whether the above is the fault of things or people, the discerning eye can see. But why do our public opinion and experts turn a blind eye to this? Why only throw dirty water on Chinese medicine? If it’s not an ulterior motive, it’s a blind eye. In the West, criminals eat bread and drink beer to have the strength to commit crimes and do bad things, but who has ever said that it is a side effect of bread and beer? Saying that “Chinese medicine is also poisonous” is like saying that sugar is also sweet and soy sauce is also salty, which is a matter of common sense. These truths, which even a fool knows, have become a tool used by some experts to gain fame and fortune. Without looking into the causes, without distinguishing between right and wrong, these incidents are generally referred to as adverse reactions to Chinese medicine, which is clearly a way to make Chinese medicine “suffer on behalf of others”. Why do such problems occur? The reason for this is that the people are used to common sense knowledge, but they can make news by saying that Chinese medicine is toxic, and they can even get fame and fortune. The reason why Chinese medicine is called Chinese medicine must be in accordance with Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine theory as a guiding idea, and as a guideline for action. When Chinese medicine leaves the guidance of the theory of Chinese medicine, does not talk about the ruler, minister, adjuvant and ambassador, does not obey the ascending and descending floating and odor attribution, and arbitrarily changes the dosage form and dose to extract the so-called active ingredients, it is not Chinese medicine in the real sense anymore. Fourth, there are problems of improper use and drug awareness in Chinese medicine The so-called improper use is not in accordance with the theory of traditional Chinese medicine as a guiding idea. Chinese medicine talks about diagnosis and treatment, but some doctors take the diagnosis results of western medicine as the basis for treatment, not talking about cold, heat, deficiency, qi, blood, meridians, theory and prescription. They use the so-called scientific research results to correspond with the names of diseases in Western medicine: what hepatitis B with so-and-so formula, hypertension with so-and-so medicine, in fact, this has deviated from the track of Chinese medicine. The so-called problem of Chinese medicine itself is that it does not recognize the essence of Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine theory is the soul of Chinese medicine. The Chinese medical practitioner identifies the medicine “or take its gas, or take its taste, or take its shape, or take its quality, or take the time of its birth, or take the place of its birth”, and has to “identify the nature, taste, class, and use”, and when using the medicine “look at its image, take its meaning The medicine is to be used “by observing its appearance and taking its meaning”. The herbal medicines used under the guidance of TCM theory are all biased in terms of cold, heat, warmth, coolness, elevation, sinking and floating, and either supplementation or diarrhea, etc. Doctors use these biases to correct and balance the deviation of the body from its normal state in terms of cold, heat, deficiency and reality. And without the guidance of Chinese medicine theory, the extraction of the so-called effective substances such as molecules, ions, atoms, organisms, etc., which is obviously a plant medicine in Western medicine, how can it be called Chinese medicine? Animals have their own selection instincts, and all the so-called big poisonous herbs are subject to insect infestation. If animal experiments are reliable, how can these herbs be considered poisonous? Besides, many herbs are food for animals themselves. But which of the Western medicines, whether proteins or vitamins, are worm-eaten? Which of them can be food for animals? The size of a larva can not be poisoned by herbs such as aconite, let alone a five-foot human being? The plant itself is a product of nature, and it is a balanced life form in itself. If the so-called active ingredients are extracted, the inner balance and mutual restraint will be missing, and the natural nature of Chinese medicine will be lost, and its bias will become extremely biased, and the toxicity will be more intense and difficult to control. Chinese medicine, guided by the theory of diagnosis and treatment, tends to use mostly compound prescriptions. When a certain combination of drugs is formed, the whole has a new and complex meaning due to the relatively stable connection between drugs and drugs, and a unique correspondence between the drugs used and the specific patient is thus created. At this point, the tailor-made combination of poisons becomes a cure for the disease. In order to maximize the therapeutic effect of drugs and avoid toxic side effects, the application of Chinese medicine pay attention to “the disease that is stopped”, in the Su Wen has this account: “big poison cure, ten to its six; regular poison cure, ten to its seven; small poison cure, ten to its eight; no poison cure, ten to its nine. ” Therefore, Chinese medicine is concerned with change, depending on the person, time and place, “add and subtract with the evidence, the effect must be changed.” There is no Chinese medicine that can be used by all people and can be used as a meal all year round. As we all know, both Chinese and Western medicines have toxic side effects, but the toxic side effects of Chinese medicine are fundamentally different from those of Western medicines: one is the toxic side effects of improper use, and the other is the toxic side effects of proper use. The toxic side effects of Chinese medicine can be avoided by the correct use of doctors, while the toxic side effects of Western medicine are caused by doctors who use them in strict accordance with the regulations, and they cause hard damage to the human body. The World Health Organization (WHO) pointed out that 1/3 of patients worldwide die not from natural diseases per se, but from the irrational use of drugs. According to the relevant information: China’s annual hospitalization of more than 50 million people, the occurrence of adverse reactions of 5 to 10 million people, and about 2.5 million people related to the pharmacogenic damage. At present, there are about 50-80 million disabled people in China, 1/3 of them are hearing disability, and 60%-80% of their deafness causes are related to the use of aminoglycoside antibiotics, especially streptomycin, gentamicin and kanamycin. In addition, the drugs caused by the damage to liver and kidney function, damage to the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory system, cardiovascular system, neuropsychiatric system, damage to blood, bones, skin mucous membrane and other tissues, as well as anaphylaxis, carcinogenic, teratogenic, mutagenic, etc., can be described as endless and alarming! In 1998, the United States and the World Health Organization of the United States and 22 other developed countries survey results show that the number of deaths caused by the toxic side effects of chemical synthetic drugs, after cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and cancer, as the fourth largest killer. Of the current number of deaths in the West, 90% are due to diseases of medical origin, rather than to diseases of origin. In 1982, many patients with “granulocyte deficiency” were found in Europe and the United States, who had lost their defenses against various infections and were prone to inflammation and fever. It was only after 11 years of efforts by medical parents to understand the problem that the antipyretic and analgesic drug aminopyrine was at work, and this drug had been used for 40 years. In 1995, there were a large number of blind cataract patients in Europe and the United States, especially obese women. In 1999, the United States launched a new drug to lower blood lipids, trimethoprim, although the efficacy is good, but a large number of patients taking, not only hair loss and other toxic side effects, but also many people suffering from cataracts. In 2000, some countries in Western Europe found that the new drug “reaction stop” to treat vomiting reactions of pregnant women, there are more than 12,000 seal-like fetuses, they are missing arms and legs. In Japan, the long-term use of the anti-inflammatory drug azidoquine has caused blindness and paralysis of the lower limbs in more than 10,000 people. In 2002, more than 300 young girls in the United States were found to have vaginal adenocarcinoma, which was later confirmed to be related to their mothers’ use of the birth control drug estradiol during pregnancy. Eighteen of the 21 performers in “The Goddess of Mercy” were deafened by Western medicine. Western medicine is only two or three hundred years old and already poses a serious health hazard. How many of the western drugs that were used a hundred years ago have been preserved until now? These banned drugs are developed by various “scientific methods” and approved for market only after “strict” validation by “scientific procedures”. These new and special drugs in the garb of “science” are widely used in clinical settings around the world, resulting in many patients losing their health and even their precious lives! And Western medicine, as long as the banner of science, the replacement of the drug will be eliminated, you can get away with curing people without legal sanctions. Western medicine is science, and is it too risky and irresponsible to use the results of animal experiments as the basis for human treatment? Western medicine’s pharmacological tests to chemical composition and animal experiments as the basis for animal experimental data as human clinical data, drugs as long as the ingredients qualified, rats nod on the line, so people eat the drug became animal drugs. Animals eat no toxic side effects can be concluded that people eat no toxic side effects, every person taking Western medicine eventually became the experimental rabbit, the victim of scientific research, resulting in a large number of patients for the new Western medicine and sacrifice, is this too cruel, too inhumane? Western drugs are constantly being proven to be the culprit of many terminal diseases, but before they were proven to have fatal side effects, didn’t we take them as a cure? Each drug has undergone rigorous scientific experimentation, and those that ultimately cannot stand up to the test of practice are eliminated. It is not difficult to speculate that many of the Western drugs still in use today will be banned in the near future because they have been found to have fatal side effects. Medicine and drugs were originally used to cure diseases and save lives, but have turned out to be the opposite, becoming the cause of disease! Many western drugs do not have a definite effect on the disease itself, but only stabilize the indicators or relieve some local symptoms, but cause serious harm to the human body, such “deception therapy”, in modern medicine can be seen everywhere in the classical and clinical. The problem of Western medicine is so serious that it has become the fourth biggest killer of human beings. Western medicine does not seek to repair itself, but only to repair people; instead of working to correct its own problems, it wants to act as a spokesman for science; wielding the stick of science, it picks the problems of Chinese medicine. It seems that as long as Chinese medicine is eliminated, the health of Chinese people will be guaranteed. Sixth, to identify the authenticity of Chinese medicine under the guidance of Chinese medical theory Drug dealers and hospitals, in order to sell drugs, take advantage of the reputation of Chinese medicine and medicine among the people and international influence for thousands of years, deceptively labeling Chinese medicine or combined Chinese and Western medicine preparations in drug descriptions and advertisements, which are used to treat common diseases such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, colds and obesity diagnosed by Western medicine, misleading patients to purchase their own drugs. Many manufacturers and sellers of health care products take advantage of the good influence of Chinese medicine among the people, using ginseng, cordyceps, pearls, ganoderma lucidum and other so-called precious Chinese medicine preparations to plunder people’s money and cheat them, while throwing dirty water on Chinese medicine once something goes wrong. In order to deceive the public, some businesses will be plant extracts labeled as Chinese medicine in order to fish eyes when the Chinese medicine sold, such as He Shou Wu preparations but not He Shou Wu, fishy grass preparations are not fishy grass. Western medicine to He Shou Wu, fishy grass made preparations used in clinical after its toxic side effects but to pay for it, so that the unknown people of the country is difficult to distinguish the true from the false, its sinister intentions are clearly revealed. There have been reports: a reporter sent tea as urine to three hospitals in Hangzhou “actually” detected abnormalities, and was diagnosed by doctors with inflammation and treatment. 5 hospitals to the reporter with anti-inflammatory drugs, a total cost of about 1300 yuan of medicine. Modern, automated instruments plus microscopic examination, a cup of tea was “inflammatory”. Under the microscope of science, the tea should be inflamed. So, how can the Chinese medicine used to cure people in the scope of science and how to avoid non-toxic? I don’t know what is the basis for experts to judge the toxicity of Chinese medicine, if only according to the instrument laboratory, then naturally there is a scientific basis, but Chinese medicine is never based on chemical composition as the basis for judging Chinese medicine. Currently, some TCM practitioners are misled by Western medicine composition and disease name theories, prescribing medication according to composition, what is bactericidal, anti-inflammatory, cellular, genetic, target, etc., abandoning the guidance of TCM theories, making the efficacy of TCM greatly reduced. Toxicity of Chinese medicine has been reported, causing pressure on Chinese medicine treatment, interfering with the determination of Chinese medicine practitioners to use drugs, some in the face of serious and critical diseases, suffering from the danger of seeing the danger and shrink back; some of the philosophy of protection, see the seriousness of the disease and do not dare to use the steep, strong drugs, thus making patients lose the favorable time for treatment. Therefore, Chinese medicine treatment, in addition to a high level of medical skills, but also a high degree of responsibility for the patient’s benevolent heart. Of course, some patients in the treatment process of Chinese medicine will have some reactions, called nocturnal reactions in Chinese medicine, such as: dizziness, nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc., at this time, the patient often think that it is a side effect, the doctor should have a correct judgment, as long as the “righteousness” of the human body is helpful, then the side effect is precisely its advantages rather than disadvantages, at this time the The reaction is a therapeutic reaction, a healing reaction, a detoxification reaction, and the beginning of the “side effects” is the beginning of the therapeutic effect. The “righteousness” is the vitality of the human body, the essence of health and life. Chinese medicine must be based on the human body and must use the human body as a reference. What is the medicine that cures disease? What is the poison that causes disease? Only the human body can be the center. As long as the “righteousness” of the human body is helpful, the medicine can be used as a means of prevention and treatment, while those that weaken it can be regarded as harmful poison. Mao Zedong said, “Chinese medicine is a great treasure trove that should be explored and improved.” Chinese culture is the soul of the Chinese nation, Chinese medical theory is the soul of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine is our nation’s own intellectual property, the legitimacy and scientific nature of Chinese medicine is determined and given by our nation itself. We need to keep learning from others, stick to our own strengths, give modern connotations to the ancient and traditional Chinese medicine and carry it forward, making new contributions to the health of the nation and the health of mankind.