Can the effective components in traditional Chinese medicine be purified and directly used as medicine?

Introduction: With the improvement of the quality of life, people's living standards are getting better and better. However, the medical level has been continuously studied and improved. 1 1 is necessary to ensure the health of people's daily life. So in real life, many people know about Chinese medicine and western medicine, so can the effective components in Chinese medicine be purified and directly used as medicine?

One: What chemical components does Chinese medicine contain?

With the continuous development of medical level, people's research on Chinese herbal medicine has followed suit. The chemical composition of traditional Chinese medicine is very complicated, which generally includes sugars, amino acids, oils, pigments, vitamins, inorganic salts, alkaloids, wintersweet and so on. Of course, each material may contain a variety of effective ingredients. Some components have obvious medical biological activity. However, this medicinal component generally contains alkaloids, volatile oil, amino acids and so on.

What are the medical functions of traditional Chinese medicine?

Traditional Chinese medicine has no special medical function, mainly because it is rich in some effective components. Of course, it cannot be said that any ingredients contained in Chinese medicine are useful. But in recent years, with the improvement of medical level, many effective components of Chinese herbal medicines have been found at home and abroad, especially in anti-tumor and cardiovascular diseases. Of course, some ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine are also inactive and cannot play a medical role, so they are called? Invalid ingredients? I don't know, just some sugar, protein, inorganic salts and so on.

Three: Can the active ingredients in the medicine be directly refined into medicine?

With the development of medical level, this idea is very meaningful. However, there is no guarantee that all traditional Chinese medicines can extract effective components and make medicines directly. And there are many ingredients in Chinese medicine. Not all active ingredients play an important role in promoting the medical level. Of course, a part can also be extracted to ensure the utilization rate of effective parts, and then used to better treat patients. But this chemical extraction must have accurate data and clinical experiments, rather than blindly using drugs.