Let's talk about the treatment of malaria by Chinese medicine, because malaria was a very common infectious disease in ancient China, and there are many types of Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine practitioners in different places treat malaria in different ways, some of which are nonsense and can't be cured. However, there are some ways to cure it. These methods, 7788, are very numerous, and various prescriptions have been handed down.
Looking back at these prescriptions, we can see that all the prescriptions that can cure malaria contain Artemisia annua, a plant that exists in artemisinin. Traditional Chinese medicine in some areas only calls Artemisia annua L. Artemisia annua L., and looks at this problem according to modern big data analysis methods. These prescriptions for treating malaria all contain one thing, which may contain effective ingredients for treating malaria.
There are a series of complex biochemical reactions, including chemistry and high molecular biology. If it is finally found that there is no way to purify this substance, it can only exist temporarily. Then there is no way to turn such findings into applicable results. If so, the most efficient way is to stew in a pot, and it is more effective to drink soup directly.
The purification of traditional Chinese medicine is inconsistent with its pharmacology. Traditional Chinese medicine says that yin and yang and five elements produce grams, which is not a simple component problem. How to purify yin and yang and five elements? Purification is the concept of western medicine!
The purification of traditional Chinese medicine can only be used to study the composition of components, so it cannot be used as medicine.
Everyone engaged in the chemistry of traditional Chinese medicine knows that the purification of effective components is guided by pharmacological activity, and the result is that the purer the monomer components, the worse the effect.
At present, the research of new drugs needs a clear explanation of material basis, so the idea of developing new drugs with natural products seems innovative on the surface, which can explain the medicinal mechanism, but the medicinal value of most compounds is lower than that of traditional Chinese medicine.
The human body is a highly intelligent organism, and we have tried our best to purify its chemical components. In fact, the human body can easily separate them. Therefore, I don't approve of excessive purification of Chinese medicine.
The purification of traditional Chinese medicine must not completely deny the positive significance of "science" because of choking and abandoning food? This brain circuit is so strange! "Protecting" TCM with a conservative and stubborn attitude will eventually push TCM off the historical stage.
Pure Chinese medicine is not called Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine comes from natural ingredients, which is quite complicated. So far, do you know which ingredients work? Berberine does not represent coptis chinensis, and artemisinin does not represent Artemisia annua. The purified drug will develop drug resistance after several years, while the original drug has no drug resistance.
It is unscientific for people not to purify traditional Chinese medicine, but through the clinical application of artemisinin purification, drug resistance has emerged, that is to say, like western medicine antibiotics, the effect of drug resistance will get worse and worse until it is too late. However, after thousands of years of clinical application, unpurified Chinese medicine has always been like this, and there is no drug resistance. The idea of the master of Chinese medicine is correct. Why is this? The answer remains to be verified.