A "pure Chinese medicine" painkiller powder contains 4 categories and 5 kinds of painkiller chemicals, can you still eat it?
Today, a netizen took a screenshot of the video and consulted me:
"I took a pure Chinese medicine painkiller powder that had a very good pain-relieving effect, but I saw a video blogger who said that 5 chemical drugs were detected from it.
It is said that traditional Chinese medicine cures the root cause and has no toxic side effects, while Western medicine has great side effects. What are the toxic and side effects of these 5 chemical drugs?
Can I still eat this special pain-relieving Chinese medicine powder?"
Acetaminophen
Acetaminophen, like piroxicam and meloxicam, which are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory analgesics (NSAIDs) introduced below, reduces the synthesis of prostaglandins, an inflammatory mediator, by inhibiting the activity of cyclooxygenase (COX), which plays a fever-reducing and analgesic effect.
Unlike NSAIDs, acetaminophen is localized in the central nervous system and has a weak inhibitory effect on peripheral COX activity.
Therefore, acetaminophen mainly plays a fever and analgesic effect, but has no anti-inflammatory effect, and the pain and analgesic effect caused by peripheral inflammatory response is not good.
However, it is precisely because acetaminophen has little effect on peripheral COX and does not have the toxic side effects of NSAIDs that have the potential to cause serious kidney and gastric damage.
The main toxicity of acetaminophen is that it can cause fatal liver damage when used in excess. However, it takes several times the amount of conventional treatment for this toxic effect to occur.
Therefore, acetaminophen is a drug with a very high safety margin when used in conventional doses, which is why the WHO and other authorities recommend that it is the only antipyretic drug that can be used in infants under 6 months old.
Because of its safety, acetaminophen is the most widely used painkiller worldwide.
Therefore, from a purely medical point of view, it is not too much to add a conventional dose of acetaminophen to traditional Chinese medicine.
For example, almost all "cold medicines" are added with a regular dose of acetaminophen.
Piroxicam and meloxicam
NSAIDs are a large family of drugs that can be divided into several different classes in terms of chemical structure.
Piroxicam and meloxicam belong to the enollate group, and also become "xikang" because the Chinese name of the drug has the word "xikang".
Compared with old drugs such as aspirin and ibuprofen, piroxicam and meloxicam are NSAIDs that selectively inhibit COX-2 enzymes in inflammatory tissues, and have a weak inhibitory effect on tissue-type COX-1 in normal tissues, so their kidneys and gastric durf are always used lightly.
However, if used in large quantities, especially several NSAIDs at the same time, there is still the potential to cause serious kidney and gastric damage.
Therefore, the concomitant use of more than two NSAIDs is strictly contraindicated, and the combination of NSAIDs and paracetphen is not recommended.
Therefore, the addition of two enolate NSAIDs to one traditional Chinese medicine powder at the same time seriously violates the basic principle of drug use.
Moreover, piroxicam has a long half-life in the body, and continuous use can cause accumulation in the body, increasing the risk of toxic side effects.
dexamethasone
Dexamethasone is a long-acting adrenal glucocorticoid hormone, which is a "hormone" that people usually smell and stay away from.
This type of hormone is originally a natural hormone secreted by the adrenal glands and has many physiological effects in the body.
Among them, it can produce more powerful anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antipyretic effects than NSAIDs through IL-6 and TNF-α, which are inflammatory mediators higher than prostaglandins in the inflammatory response, and also have a strong immunosuppressive effect.
The naturally occurring adrenal glucocorticoid in the body is hydrocordisone, which can be rapidly metabolized and inactivated in the body, so the effect is maintained for a short time and is convenient for physiological regulation.
The main clinical use is some synthetic glucocorticoids, which not only have a long time of action, but also the dosage is much larger than the physiological dose in the body, so in addition to having a wide range of drug effects, it can also produce a wide range of serious side effects.
This is also the reason why laser hormones have powerful anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic effects, but are not used to reduce inflammation and pain.
Dexamethasone, on the other hand, is a "long-acting hormone" and has a wider range of toxic side effects than short-acting hormones.
Due to the powerful and numerous medicinal effects of "hormones", they are also the chemical ingredients that are most often added to traditional Chinese medicine by unscrupulous "wild doctors" to make various "special Chinese medicines".
In particular, "special rheumatic drugs" are used to treat various bone and joint pain, "special painkillers" are used to treat various pains, and "special cancer drugs" are used to treat advanced cancer (due to their effect on promoting glucose metabolism, these hormones can increase people's appetite and increase the amount of food eaten by advanced cancer patients; at the same time, due to their water and sodium retention effect, they can make advanced cancer patients with poor inhibition look more watery and red).
In other words, the popular (including online) special Chinese medicine that specializes in the treatment of "rheumatism", "pain relief" and "advanced cancer", as well as most special skin diseases, almost invariably inevitably adds hormones, usually prednisone or dexamethasone.
All these patients use these "special Chinese medicines", all of which belong to drinking water to quench their thirst, which is seriously harmful and has no benefit.
Tramadol
The addition of tramadol is even more outrageous!
Tramadol is a synthetic codeine analogue, i.e., a synthetic opioid that binds to opiate receptors in the body to produce the pain-relieving effects of opioids, and is commonly used clinically for moderate to severe pain.
However, because it is a synthetic opioid drug, it belongs to the second class of psychotropic drugs under strict control in the mainland, that is, it belongs to the category of drugs, and there are strict clinical indications for use, and prescription management is very strict.
This so-called special pain-relieving Chinese medicine powder was actually added without authorization tramadol, which is strictly controlled by the state and belongs to the category of drugs.
The manufacture and sale of such drugs not only violates the criminal offense of the Drug Administration Law, but also violates the law on drug control, and is a serious criminal offense of drug production and trafficking.
To sum up, it is too barbaric to add 4 types of 5 chemical drugs with pain-relieving effects to a "special painkiller" that claims to be pure Chinese medicine.
Not only is it barbaric, but it also adds "drugs" that are strictly controlled by the housekeeper, which is simply crazy.
At this point, do you think you can still take this so-called "pure Chinese medicine" special painkiller?
At a deeper level, the fact that all kinds of chemical drugs are added to Chinese (patent medicines) in compliance or in violation of regulations has actually torn off the fig leaf of "seeing the efficacy" of traditional Chinese medicine.