Can Chinese medicine and Western medicine be taken together? We know that Chinese medicine and Western medicine are the drugs of choice when we treat diseases. However, if the ingredients of the two are different, will it cause adverse effects? Look at the following, Western medicine can be mixed to take it?

Chinese medicine and western medicine should be said that most of them can be taken together. Some preparations themselves contain two components of Chinese medicine and western medicine, such as rhubarb and soda compatibility, made into compound preparation rhubarb soda tablets, for the stomach, increase appetite, help digestion, etc. Synergistic effect; rhubarb and carbonic acid compatibility, made of rhubarb magnesium scattered, not only for children with diarrhea, indigestion, but also treatment of enteritis, dysentery, and clinically proven: the two drugs with the use of enhanced, separate use alone poor efficacy. Some Chinese patent medicines and Western medicine can also enhance the efficacy, such as proprietary Chinese medicine Jiganning (including rhubarb and other traditional Chinese medicines) and Western medicine 654-2 in combination, treatment of acute viral hepatitis, regardless of the cure rate and the number of days of cure, are more general liver protection Treatment is excellent. However, it should be recognized that not all Chinese herbs can be used with Western medicine. There are misunderstandings in the following three aspects:

Change the compatibility of drugs

For example, a Chinese medicine containing a large amount of flavonoids and a western medicine containing aluminum, magnesium, and calcium may be combined to form a metal complex and change its properties and effects; such as hawthorn, jellyfish, antler cream, turtle plate, and oyster sauce. Chinese patent medicines such as A, pangolins, mother-of-pearl, keel, oysters, etc., all contain more calcium, and calcium ions can form complex complexes that are difficult to absorb with tetracycline antibiotics, which changes the nature of the drug and reduces the antibacterial activity of the latter. Efficiency cannot be shared with service.

Drugs that reduce efficacy

Such as traditional Chinese medicine stomach Ning tablets in addition to containing jellyfish, white and so on, but also contains wolfberry extract, the latter can relax gastrointestinal smooth muscle, and can prolong gastric emptying time, such as the same service with erythromycin, due to stomach row As the space is slowed down, the residence time of erythromycin in the stomach is prolonged, and its absorption in the intestine is affected, so that the curative effect is reduced. Another example is Maling Cough Tablet (Syrup) should not be used together with antihypertensive Western medicine, because the former contains ephedrine can weaken the antihypertensive effect of antihypertensive drugs.

Increase the compatibility of toxic and side effects

For example, Hawthorn Pills and Schizandrin Syrup containing organic acids should not be taken together with sulfa drugs. They can precipitate crystals in the renal tubules, causing crystallization of urine, hematuria, and urine closure. Another example is cinnabar-containing Anshen medicine Zhusha Anshen Pills, Anshen Buxin Pills, etc., which cannot be compared with bromides in western medicine (such as pasteurized mixture, tribromol mixture, 10% potassium bromide solution) and iodide (such as potassium iodide mixture, compound Iodine solution) and other combinations. Since the cinnabar component is mercury sulphide, after mercury sulfide meets bromine and iodine in the gastrointestinal tract, sulfur can be replaced by bromine or iodine to form mercury bromide or mercury iodide, and these two new substances are highly irritant. Can cause gastrointestinal bleeding, resulting in severe drug-induced enteritis. In addition, proprietary Chinese medicine cough tablets contain ephedra, the main active ingredient ephedrine has an excitatory effect on the heart, so that increased myocardial contractility, and Western medicine with digoxin use, you can cause arrhythmia. All these should be noticed.