Those precious and nearly extinct medicinal materials can be replaced by this thing

With the continuous changes in the production situation of traditional Chinese medicine and people's declining acceptance of animal medicinal materials, more and more traditional Chinese medicinal materials are difficult to access in daily life. But what should we do if we are sick and need treatment?

In fact, rare medicinal materials are not necessarily needed to treat common diseases. Many common medicinal materials also have good therapeutic effects. Moreover, the compatibility of drugs can also effectively replace certain drugs. For example, buffalo horn, which is commonly used in clinical practice to cool blood and calm nerves, is a substitute for rhino horn. With the development of Chinese medicine pharmacology, we can also expand the scope of medication by analyzing the active ingredients of similar drugs.

Let us briefly discuss some drug alternatives below, hoping that they can help you in your life.

Placenta

Refers to the human placenta. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the placenta is sweet, salty, and warm in nature, enters the lung, heart, and kidney meridians, and has the functions of nourishing the kidney, replenishing essence, replenishing qi and nourishing blood. Modern medical research believes that the placenta contains protein, sugar, calcium, vitamins, immune factors, female hormones, progesterone, steroid hormones, gonadotropin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, etc., which can promote the development of the breast, uterus, vagina, and testicles, and also has a promoting effect on the thyroid gland. It is also effective for tuberculosis, bronchial asthma, anemia, etc. Grinding it into powder and taking it orally or by enema can prevent measles or alleviate symptoms. It also has a certain therapeutic effect on ascites caused by portal vein cirrhosis and ascites caused by advanced schistosomiasis.

In the past two years, placenta has been removed from the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, which to a certain extent has sentenced this medicinal ingredient to death. And there is no need to worry that without this medicine, some diseases will be completely untreatable. Modern research shows that placenta can be replaced by pig or sheep placenta. In daily life, you can also use donkey-hide gelatin with angelica and processed Polygonum multiflorum.

Bear Bile

It is the gallbladder of the black bear or brown bear, which are members of the Ursidae family. Traditional Asian medicine, such as Chinese medicine, believes that bear bile has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, calming the liver and improving eyesight, and killing insects and stopping bleeding. Therefore, Asian countries have a tradition of killing bears for their bile that has lasted for thousands of years. In recent years, extracting bile from live bears has often been resisted by the public because it is bloody and cruel.

Although bear bile has so many functions, experimental studies have shown that these functions are not irreplaceable by other Chinese herbal medicines. In terms of their effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, wild chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, dandelion, scutellaria baicalensis, etc. are better than bear bile. As for the liver-calming and eyesight-improving effects of bear bile, wild chrysanthemum, gentian, gardenia and mulberry leaves may be better. Antelope horn, Uncaria rhynchophylla, and Gastrodia elata are also good for calming wind and relieving convulsions. As for the insecticidal and hemostatic effects of bear bile, it can be replaced by smilax china, tripterygium wilfordii, etc.

pangolin

It is the scales of the pangolin, an animal of the family Carpidae. Collect the scales, wash them and dry them. It is mainly produced in Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places. In addition, it is also produced in Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Anhui and other places. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and eliminating symptoms, promoting menstruation and lactation, reducing swelling and discharging pus, and removing wind and unblocking meridians. It is used for amenorrhea, paralysis, stagnation of milk, carbuncle, sore, rheumatism, paralysis caused by stroke, numbness and cramps.

In clinical practice, pangolin scales are rarely used and are gradually replaced by pig hoof nails. Some doctors with personal experience have also begun to try a combination of fenugreek and earthworm to replace pangolin. Whole insects and leeches can be used to promote blood circulation and dredge meridians, while centipedes and angelica dahurica can be used to eliminate carbuncles and treat sores.

Saffron

This is what we commonly call saffron, which is relatively expensive due to market behavior. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, cooling blood and detoxifying, relieving depression and calming the mind. It is used for amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, rashes caused by warm toxins, depression, fullness of breath, palpitations and madness.

Although there has been a large amount of conversion to planting across the country, the price is still high. In clinical practice, safflower is often used in combination with motherwort to treat related diseases.

Cordyceps

Also known as Cordyceps, it is a precious tonic medicinal material commonly used by the Chinese people. Its nutritional content is higher than that of ginseng. It can be used as medicine or food. It is a superior delicacy with high nutritional value. Cordyceps sinensis can enhance the body's immunity, nourish the lungs and kidneys, and has a significant inhibitory effect on lung cancer, liver cancer, etc. Clinically, it is effective in treating chronic cough due to lung deficiency, asthma, hemoptysis due to tuberculosis, night sweats, back and knee pain due to kidney deficiency, impotence and spermatorrhea, neurasthenia, and decreased red blood cells after chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Cordyceps sinensis has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening the lungs, tonifying the kidneys, and enhancing immunity, and it has a certain effect on tuberculosis. But wolfberry and yam in our daily life can also play most of the roles.

There are also a large number of drugs that can be replaced through means such as compatibility, which also provides more possibilities for current Chinese medicine treatment. With the development of Chinese medicine pharmacology, our understanding of drugs will continue to deepen, and Chinese medicine will also have further development and make contributions to mankind.