How much profit does Chinese medicine have?

In China, there are nearly 400 kinds of Chinese and Western medicine compound preparations, which are Chinese patent medicines made by adding traditional Chinese medicines according to national drug standards, that is, adding western medicine ingredients. However, there are many problems in the use of proprietary Chinese medicines containing western medicines, but they have not attracted enough attention from people.

The earliest combination of Chinese and Western medicines originated in the middle of the 19th century. Traditional Chinese medicine Zhang Xichun used gypsum aspirin to treat epidemic febrile heat syndromes, and it is said to have a certain effect. However, aspirin is a well-recognized good medicine, and it has a certain effect whether added to traditional Chinese medicine or chicken soup. In the 60s to 70s of the 20th century, in order to solve the problem of lack of medical care, Chinese herbal medicine mass campaigns were carried out nationwide. Before the "Drug Administration Law" was promulgated in 1985, local medical administrative departments independently approved the compound preparations consisting of traditional Chinese medicines and chemical medicines, and thus the products of western medicines added to traditional Chinese medicines began to be widely used in clinical treatment.

Chinese medicine is most commonly added to cold medicines. In the study sampling, 19 of 24 cold medicines contained acetaminophen (paracetamol) and 19 of them contained chlorphenamine maleate (chlorpheniramine). Only 10 types of western medicine ingredients are indicated in the instructions, and 14 types are not indicated. If you take Western medicine such as Tylenol, Baifuning, Baijiahei, and Coke, it is easy to cause repeated use of certain chemicals, resulting in the occurrence of dose overlap. The more common Chinese medicine cold medicines containing western medicine ingredients are compound cold capsules, compound cold masking capsules, compound cold pills, 999 Ganmao Ling granules, cold masks, cold masks, sentinel capsules, Jinling cold masks, anti-influenza Tablets, Victoria C Yinqiao tablets, and weight tablets.

In addition, Chinese medicines for cough and asthma are mainly supplemented with ephedrine hydrochloride, ammonium chloride, aminophylline, chlorpheniramine, and sulfonamides. Of the 25 kinds of such drugs, only 4 showed western medicine ingredients, and 21 did not. Common compound yttrium syrup, Kechuanqing tablets, cough syrup, syrup, cough syrup, cough tablets, phlegm and cough syrup in children, antitussive syrup and so on. The gastrointestinal tract proprietary Chinese medicines include sodium bicarbonate, magnesium oxide, berberine hydrochloride, aluminum hydroxide, and barium salts. Of the 20 kinds of such drugs, only 2 suggest that they contain western medicine ingredients. Commonly used drugs such as Changkang tablets, Dahuang Sanwei tablets, compound Tianqi stomach pain capsules, live stomach capsules, rescue must be stomach pain tablets, pediatric intestinal Wei Kang particles. In another example, antihypertensive Chinese medicines generally contain hydrochlorothiazide and other western medicines, and common ones are Luoqin Jiangya Tablets, Shuluo Tablets, Maijunan Tablets, buck-bodied air avoidance tablets, compound Luobuqi tablets and Zhenju Jiangya Tablets.

The same applies to hypoglycemic Chinese medicines. Xiaoke pills consist of Pueraria lobata, Rehmannia glutinosa, Astragalus membranaceus, Trichosanthin, Corncob, Southern Schisandra, Chinese yam, and Glyburide. Many patients believe that their hypoglycemic effect is obvious, and Chinese medicine is more harmless. However, I do not know that it contains glibenclamide, in fact Xiaoke pills Chinese herbal ingredients without hypoglycemic effect, hypoglycemic effect is completely glyburide. Cases of hypoglycemic shock and death due to overdose of glibenclamide have been reported due to unawareness. For example, in 2009, two patients in Xinjiang died after taking the “Jianzhining Capsule” (batch number “081101”) produced by “Guangxi Pingnan Pharmaceutical Factory”. According to investigations, the drug taken before the deceased contained about 10.33 mg of "glibenclamide" per capsule. It is the second generation of sulfonylurea drugs, which has a strong effect of lowering blood sugar, but adults can't take more than l5mg daily, otherwise it will endanger the life safety of the drug users. The seized drugs instructions stated that the normal dosage was 9 capsules per day, but the deceased had exceeded 6 times the highest daily dose. Wang Dahong, Secretary-General of the China Health Food Association's Market Working Committee, gave an example. If diabetics do not know that glyburide is added to the Chinese patent medicines for lowering blood sugar, they mistakenly believe that they are overdose and are taking over Chinese medicines. At the same time, it also took the hypoglycemic western medicine for “integrated Chinese and Western medicine treatment”, which will cause excessive hypoglycemic agents and lead to hypoglycemia, if the sudden withdrawal will lead to blood glucose fluctuations. Such drugs are sugar Wei capsules, Shiwei Jiangtang sugar particles.

There is no theoretical basis for modern medicine and pharmacology in Chinese and Western medicine compound preparations, and it cannot be explained by traditional Chinese medicine theory. Chinese and Western medicine compound preparations do not meet the standards of Chinese medicine, nor do they meet the standards of chemical medicine. However, there are nearly 400 kinds of Chinese medicines that are legally added to Western medicine ingredients in Chinese medicine standards. However, there is no definite evidence so far that the difference in efficacy between Chinese and Western medicines and single-use chemical medicines, and the interaction between drugs is almost blank.

Some Chinese and Western medicine compound preparations do not contain western medicine ingredients in the instructions, and adverse reactions, contraindications, precautions, drug interactions, and drug use in special groups are generally missing or incomplete. Western medicines added by some Chinese medicines are not first-line drugs or have been eliminated clinically because of their toxic side effects, such as ammonium chloride, clenbuterol hydrochloride, glibenclamide, clonidine hydrochloride, and procaine. Some western medicines have even exceeded the doses taken alone in Chinese and Western medicines. This human factor has caused a significant increase in the incidence of adverse reactions, deviating from the basic principle of safe drug use.

Traditional Chinese medicine is often referred to as ancestral secret recipes, court secret recipes, and natural non-toxic side effects. Why do you need to add western medicine? The reason is very simple, the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine is not good, over time will inevitably lose the market because of its invalidity, the purpose of adding western medicine is to produce a curative effect. In addition, western medicines with strong efficacy and low prices are added, western medicines with a few cents are added to traditional Chinese medicines, and prices can often be increased by a factor of 100. It can be said that Western medicine is responsible for the efficacy, and Chinese medicine is responsible for profits.

Some people in the Chinese medicine industry stated that Chinese and Western medicine compound preparations can reduce the toxic and side effects of Western medicine, but this is unfounded. As an average consumer, if you feel that the Chinese medicines you are serving actually have a curative effect, you must be careful about whether Western medicine ingredients are added to this Chinese medicine and whether the benefits of the efficacy of the medicines are greater than the damage caused by toxic and side effects. This is a safe medication. One of the basic principles.