For those who choose Chinese medicine, under the trend of this era, more people are pursuing the elderly. However, no matter what age people choose not to see Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine will prescribe prescriptions for patients. Maybe many people don't pay much attention to it at ordinary times. On the paper written by doctors, there are often prescriptions composed of many kinds of Chinese medicines, but it is rare to see only one or two kinds of medicines. Why?
This is actually the uniqueness of Chinese medicine prescriptions. Generally speaking, doctors use more than one or two drugs, whether it is a classic prescription or a timely prescription. It's not that one or two drugs can't be used to treat diseases, but on the whole, it's really not that one or two drugs can cure complex diseases. The mystery of multi-drug prescriptions lies in the compatibility principle of "monarch and minister assisting"
But it is undeniable that sometimes one or two drugs can also play a certain clinical therapeutic effect. Usually a single Chinese medicine is used to treat diseases, and some people even think that Chinese medicine alone can solve all their problems. For example, patients with heart disease, taking Sanqi, a single Chinese medicine, can remove blood stasis and relieve pain. For example, many people think that their eyesight is blurred. Drinking chrysanthemum tea every day to clear the liver and improve eyesight can make their eyes as bright as ever!
But looking at tens of thousands of prescriptions of Chinese medicine, most of them are actually composed of many kinds of drugs. This "combined" decoction of traditional Chinese medicine is called "compatibility" in the technical terms of traditional Chinese medicine, which means that two or more drugs are selectively combined and applied together. Then, why do you need to pay attention to compatibility when composing prescriptions? There are mainly the following reasons.
First, not only the disease, but also the medicine!
With people's gradual understanding of the disease, it is found that the disease can be manifested in many situations, such as frequently-occurring disease, excess and deficiency, cold and heat, etc., so the medication is from simple to complex, and a variety of Chinese medicines are combined to form a medication law.
Generally speaking, diseases with single symptoms can not be cured by blind medication, but in clinic, after all, diseases with single symptoms are far less than diseases with diverse symptoms. In this case, it is necessary to use compound prescription, which requires the compatibility of various Chinese medicines to solve every symptom and disease.
Second, taking care of complex diseases, multi-drug compatibility can improve the curative effect!
We found that many single drugs can really treat diseases. For example, soaking senna leaves in water can treat constipation. However, when many diseases occur, the condition is not single, and two or more Chinese medicines are needed to be used together, and the curative effect is indeed greater than that of single Chinese medicine or two Chinese medicines.
As for the compatibility of drugs, in fact, as early as Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, the compatibility relationship of various drugs was summarized as "seven emotions", that is, one-way, mutual need, mutual attraction, mutual fear, mutual killing, mutual evil and opposition. Among the seven emotions, the use of "Xu Xiang" can enhance the efficacy of the original medicine, such as the compatibility of Herba Ephedrae and Ramulus Cinnamomi, and can enhance the functions of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, expelling wind and dispelling cold.
Third, the nature of traditional Chinese medicine is complex, and compatibility can reduce the side effects!
Traditional Chinese medicine often has more than one medicinal property, and it is likely to have another medicinal effect unrelated to its main direction, and even some traditional Chinese medicines are toxic. Compatibility of traditional Chinese medicine can properly solve the problem of toxicity of traditional Chinese medicine, such as "killing each other" in the seven emotions. When drugs are used together, one drug can eliminate the side effects of another drug, such as mung bean can kill croton toxin. We take the main efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, but to eliminate the side effects of this traditional Chinese medicine, we must rely on compatibility to solve this problem.
Finally, we have to put forward that the seven emotions also show the relationship of "opposition". This means that if the compatibility is improper, the combination of the two drugs will run counter to each other, resulting in serious toxic and side effects, such as licorice.
Clinically, many prescriptions prescribed by old Chinese medicine practitioners have good effects. However, it is not recommended that professionals who have not done in-depth research prescribe drugs at will, and do not take the prescription of experts to the pharmacy to get drugs at will, because Chinese medicine has always paid attention to syndrome differentiation of three causes, and "drugs can only be used if they are sick." Only by prescribing the most reasonable prescription for the disease can we kill two birds with one stone and get rid of the disease. On the contrary, blind misuse, besides luck, often brings more misfortune!