Do less of prescription medicines, the better?

Do less of prescription medicines, the better? I one girlfriend from a frail, think "long illness into the hospital." Not long ago, I was eating more "hot" food causes throat discomfort, want to go to the pharmacy to buy niuhuang jiedu tablets "falling fire". The friend hurried to stop, and advised me that "women are not suitable for eating niuhuang jiedu tablets, you had better eat fire Zhi cereal. "I looked puzzled, friend explained that from the perspective of two kinds of traditional Chinese medicine ingredients, niuhuang jiedu tablets containing a bezoar, rhizoma coptidis, Radix scutellariae, Yellow cedar and other herb and fire Zhi cereals only, gardenia andrographis Paniculata, ophiopogon japonicus in three traditional Chinese medicine. "Are the three HIV drug", as the female induced by physiological structure, "drugs" not as good as men, therefore, the better the fewer drugs on women. May I ask: is this?

Readers in Kunming Lan Lanstresses treatment based on syndrome differentiation of traditional Chinese medicine, so for the same disease, different when a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, they kind of prescription and the amount will vary. Fewer types of traditional Chinese medicine but not with "poison" the smaller the curative effect of species more or better? Pharmaceutical experts believe that patients need to choose drugs according to their specific circumstances, there is no "women would only eat fire Zhi cereal" argument. Components through combination of syndrome differentiation of Chinese patent medicines, solid fire, deficiency, are symptomatic of the need to have the appropriate medication. Chinese medicine is drug use "deviation". Traditional Chinese doctors believe medicine is "poison", each drug medicine has its own, in addition to drugs such as Yam, bias is the "poison". Compatibility of after use, some antibiotics, toxicity of drug abatement, medium. For example, the pinggan glucosides role very well, but the disadvantage is that bitter injury of spleen-Yang, so compatibility will join when baizhu pharmacies, spleen, or amount of radix paeoniae Alba, who is likely to diarrhea. In the hospital, often visible to the Chinese medicine practitioners because the number of prescription drugs and less challenged by patients. "Do only a few drug efficacy? "On this, advising people to break the inherent thought, doctors prescribe medicine will only be based on the patient's own situation, no comparative with other patient's prescription. Less the amount, because these drugs to treat, as long as symptomatic pesticide, will be able to receive better treatment effect. Nanning city people's hospital physician Li Yanming

See December 30, 2010 edition of the family health report of the original "scientific medicine"