The ancients did not see the malaria parasite, how do they know to use artemisia annua to treat malaria?
This involves the methodology and worldview of TCM.
Modern medicine sees that malaria patients have malaria parasites in their blood, and healthy people do not, then they know that they are the scourge of these insects, and the development of insecticidal drugs can be.
Yes, no.
Indeed, thousands of people with malaria have been cured by artemisinin, simple, convenient and beneficial to humanity.
But why did you develop a new anti-malarial drug decades ago? It was because the previous generation of antimalarial drugs at that time, quinine, began to be ineffective. Quinine was extracted by a French doctor from the bark of a cinchona tree. Boiling water on the bark of the cinchona tree cures malaria and has been a custom of indigenous people in South America for thousands of years, but the effects of quinine have only lasted for more than 100 years.
Artemisinin was extracted by Tu Youyou from artemisia annua. Artemisia annua can cure malaria, the Jin Dynasty Ge Hong book wrote that Artemisia annua is directly twisted juice to take, why not boil artemisia like ordinary Chinese medicine? Maybe I tried it. Inspired by this, she tried to extract the active ingredient with a low boiling point solvent, and repeatedly experimented successfully.
However, the means of identifying the effect is still to rely on these microscope worms, and once these worms are also resistant to drugs like their ancestors, what can they do? After all, artemisinin has only been invented for decades, and it is not good to say it later.
Some people say that there will be a second Tu Youyou, and then screen thousands of drugs, and then put on the liver and gallbladder for decades to develop a more cattle fork xx pigment.
Not necessarily, from the perspective of Tu Youyou's research process, artemisinin is a clever hand, and the success of the project may not be as good as a moon landing.
Using Human Made's compounds to kill God Made's malaria parasites is not the solution of Chinese medicine. What Chinese medicine sees is that the swinging patient often has some kind of signs and symptoms that are different from normal people, which means that the body is in a certain state, so if he adjusts his physical state with drugs, the person will be fine.
Chinese medicine to adjust the human body is simply the hot cold, cold and hot, all kinds of Chinese medicine just have different properties of cold, hot and cold, but not their own temperature, but the characteristics presented after entering the human body. It's like a chili pepper is hot, you eat it cold, and it still feels hot in your stomach.
Artemisia annua is hard, bitter and cold, and this kind of sexual flavor of the drug is often used to diagnose the symptoms of warm and evil in the body. Malaria is only one such symptom, and the treatment of malaria is only one of the effects of Artemisia annua.
Chinese medicine textbooks introduce Artemisia annua as follows:
1, used for warm evil wound yin, night heat and early cool.
2. It is used for yin deficiency fever and bone steaming.
3. It is used to feel the summer evil, fever, headache and thirst.
4. It is used for malaria cold and fever.
Applicable to several types of people, simply put, similar to the cold is almost better, a little low-grade fever at night; or like a person is particularly thin, cheekbones are always red, hot body. If you have not paid attention to such people, you think about boiling water at home, the fire is adjusted to the maximum, and the water is only so much as a cup; and then there is that if you have heat stroke, Artemisia annua can relieve the heat.
The above 1-3 need to be combined with other drugs to form a prescription, only to treat malaria, with a single flavor of medicine, more than a thousand years ago Ge Hong wrote in the "Elbow Reserve Emergency Formula: Cure Cold and Heat Malaria Formula": "Artemisia annua one hand, with two liters of water stained, twist the juice, take it as much as possible."
The logic of Chinese medicine does not pay much attention to physical, tangible and qualitative things, relying on the abstract understanding of the virtual reality and cold heat in the yin and yang surface of the human body, relying on the grasp of the characteristics of drugs and prescriptions to act on the human body, adjusting to a state of neutrality and peace.
Prevention does not pay attention to the cause, pay attention to the cause, who let you get sick I don't care, I care about how you get sick, how do those worms find you?
When treating people who do not pay attention to the disease, pay attention to the disease, I don't care what the disease is, I just need to see what your body has more and what is missing, what should be subtracted, what should be added.
Therefore, the ancients knew that Artemisia annua could treat malaria, but no one studied what was in artemisia annua. With the methodology and worldview of Chinese medicine, even if there is no artemisia annua in nature, it can still cure malaria. It doesn't matter if the malaria parasite mutates all the time, because Chinese medicine doesn't care much about it.
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