Recently, Pianzihuang's plunge has hurt many people. From early 2019 to 2021, Pianzihuang's stock price continued to rise sharply.
Last year, the price of a piece of pill rose to 1,600 yuan, equivalent to 3 grams of pills per pill, with an average of 533 yuan per gram, and it is still difficult to find one pill. Nowadays, the price of Pinzihuang ranges from 600-800 yuan per pharmacy.
Why is Pianzihuang so expensive? What diseases can Pinzihuang treat?
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1. "My magic medicine" pills
According to legend, in the Ming Dynasty, an imperial physician was dissatisfied with the dictatorship of the court, fled the chaos Zhangzhou and cut his hair into a monk. Later, in order to treat the local people, he used Chinese medicines such as musk , snake gallbladder, Tianqi , beef yellow to make a secret palace prescription pills nylon. Any symptoms such as redness, heat, swelling, and pain will be effective immediately if you swallow one tablet.
was only produced in the temple at first, but then it became popular among the people with the decline of the temple. In 1956, the pharmaceutical factory that produced Pianzihuang became a state-owned enterprise, and in 1972, it was given to Tanaka Kakuei because of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan as a "national gift" , which attracted the attention of many Japanese people.
Many people even regard Pinzihuang as a magical medicine, and even say that cancer patients take Pinzihuang to prolong their life, reduce cancer pain, and treat cancer.
The famous old Chinese doctor Sheng Guorong once reported a case in which an old overseas Chinese used Pinzihuang to treat cancer in the " Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine ". An old overseas Chinese with cancer was diagnosed with Western medicine to live for up to three months, but after half a year of treatment with Pianzihuang and Houttuynia cordata, the liver function index actually returned to normal.
Moreover, tablets are included in the national confidential formula list , and the other medicine is Yunnan Baiyao . All these make Pianzihuang full of "magic" colors and the supply is in short supply. Some people say that Pinzihuang can cure cancer. Is the effect of Pinzihuang really so magical?
2. What diseases can Pianzihuang cure? Is it really that magical? The saccharin in
pill of 1. In the local dialect of Minnan , it generally refers to symptoms such as heat, swelling, pain, and toxicity. Many local herbs in southern Fujian that have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying are named after the word "者".
"Zai" is a tone in southern Fujian dialect. "Pianzihuang" means that one piece can solve heat, swelling, pain and poison. The instructions for
tablets of 1000 , Panax notoginseng , musk, beef yellow, snake gallbladder , which can have the effects of cooling blood, clearing heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain, etc., and can be treated for viral hepatitis caused by heat toxin and blood stasis, swelling and toxicity, bruising and injury, and various inflammations caused by heat toxin and blood stasis.
Professor Ye Weijiang, deputy director of Zhongshan Hospital of Zhejiang Province, pointed out that tablets of jaundice hepatitis, cholestasis liver disease, etc. caused by damp heat accumulation, have a clearer effect on jaundice hepatitis, cholestasis liver disease, etc. .
Can that pill of zihuang treat cancer?
In fact, the product manual of Pianzihuang does not mention the function of treating cancer. A study in the Chinese Herbal Medicine Journal found that Pianzihuang can inhibit the proliferation, invasion and migration of lung cancer cells in vitro. It may be an effective drug for lung cancer treatment, but the mechanism of anti-tumor effect of Pianzihuang is not clear.
That is to say, pills to prevent cancer and fight cancer are without any definite evidence, and they also need to be treated rationally.
3. Pinzihuang is also a medicine. Don’t take
Some people regard Pinzihuang as a health product. They should take some if you have anything to do. Professor Ye Weijiang, deputy director of Zhongshan Hospital in Zhejiang Province and leader of the Department of Liver Disease and Infection Science, pointed out that tablet is a drug, not a health product, and has strict indications.
For example, not all patients with liver disease can take it. Although it can be used for liver disease treatment, does not have the effect of anti-hepatitis B virus . In the fight against hepatitis B virus, you can choose entecavir and other evidence-based medically verified antiviral drugs.
, Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ru Qingjing, said that although Pinzihuang has good effect on hot syndrome and empirical liver disease, because this drug is relatively expensive and does not reimburse for medical insurance, in clinical practice, doctors generally use other drugs with similar ingredients such as Babaodan for treatment.
Pills is not the rumored that the longer the better, the better. has an effective period. The validity period of the lozenges is 60 months. Consumers are advised not to blindly buy and hoard, and they should not take pills that exceed the validity period.
tablets are prescription drugs themselves. requires a practicing physician or a practicing assistant physician to be prepared and used, and cannot be overdose or abused. In addition, like athletes and pregnant women should use with caution. Once symptoms of physical discomfort occur, you must seek medical treatment in time.
The palace secret recipe Pianzihuang, which has been passed down from the Ming Dynasty, was once called a magical medicine, and its prices have also risen again and again. However, Pinzihuang is a drug, not a health product, and cannot fight cancer. It must be taken as prescribed by the doctor, and pregnant women and athletes need to use it with caution.
Reference materials:
[1] "Have you read this national treasure-level Chinese medicine name correctly? 》. Chinese Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine .2018-05-23
[2] "Research on the inhibitory effect of Pianzihuang on the proliferation, migration and invasion of lung cancer cells and its mechanisms". Chinese Herbal Medicine Magazine.2019-12-03
[3] "I was fryed to nearly 2,000 yuan per pill? Experts remind: Pianzihuang cannot be used for health care and disease prevention, so don’t be blindly superstitious! 》.Health Times .2021-06-30
[4] Hu Yanhui, Cui Qingli, Ma Dongyang, Geng Liang. Research on the inhibitory effect of Pianzihuang on the proliferation, migration and invasion of lung cancer cells and its mechanism [J]. Chinese Herbal Medicine, 2019, 50(22):5527-5531.
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