I’ve noticed recently that quite a few asthma patients (plus folks with laryngeal obstruction, chronic bronchitis, chronic pharyngitis…) have taken 【detours】 while hunting for treatment, especially when they turn to Chinese medicine or herbal formulas.
They’ve wasted good money, made their asthma worse, and harmed not only the lungs but also the liver, kidneys, and heart—hurting the body and even the soul…
The “detour” is this: hidden inside the Chinese herbs are 【little white tablets】!
Those little white tablets are plain Western drugs—mainly steroids, antibiotics, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory pills💊, in other words, 【painkillers】!
So the moment you swallow the mix you feel better, the moment you stop it flares right back up!
It hurts the stomach, hurts the liver, hurts the kidneys—terrifying!
Painkillers are basically anesthetics; they treat the symptom, not the root.
They numb the nerves, so of course you don’t cough, don’t wheeze, don’t hurt.
Pull a tooth, get a pain shot, and it won’t hurt either!
Pull a tooth every day, get a shot every day—still works!
But asthma attacks every single day; using an anesthetic still “works,” except it wrecks your stomach, liver, and kidneys and becomes even harder to cure later!
These quacks in Chinese-medicine clothing will even offer to decoct and bag your herbs for you (hot soup poured into plastic bags—hello, plasticizers!), and if they’re fancy they’ll let you recline on an electric massage chair for a chat and some “relaxation.”
While you’re distracted, they grind those 【little white tablets】 into powder and dump them into your herbal brew!
Whether these so-called TCM doctors are skilled or not, their conscience is rotten first and foremost.
Some, once exposed, still shamelessly claim: “This is integrated Chinese-Western medicine, a compound formula—better results!”
Utter nonsense!
Authentic asthma formulas in Chinese medicine treat both root and branch, guiding qi and guiding blood.
Western drugs only treat the branch, never the root; they guide qi but ignore blood, so after taking them you feel chest tightness, chest pain, fatigue.
Western drugs not only skip guiding the blood, they also numb nerves and block vessels—especially the tiny peripheral capillaries that are crucial to lungs and kidneys.
If the lungs can’t exchange oxygen or the kidneys can’t expel toxins, how do you stay alive?
Even if it’s not that severe, blocked blood flow is inevitable—icy feet, cold knees, allergies guaranteed!
Yet the old formulas that guide qi and blood—like Xiao Qing Long Tang—can no longer expel the 【modern asthma toxins】.
Besides air pollution and food additives, there’s pharmaceutical poison from Western drugs, all man-made.
The toxins are too deep and too many.
The scariest culprit is IV drips: antibiotics shot straight into the bloodstream, toxins entering the blood instantly, clogging vessels and blocking peripheral capillaries.
Hence icy feet and knees, poor digestion, leaky gut, allergies, thick greasy tongue coating, loss of appetite, fatigue…
You know your spleen and stomach are damaged.
What you may not know is that painkillers and anesthetics injure the kidneys even more—because kidneys are silent organs, with no pain nerves inside.
Glomeruli die off in batches, silently, with no rebirth.
So never swallow pills casually, even if they’re labeled Chinese medicine, including patent pills (many sneak in hormones and are even government-approved)!
If you must take medicine and the doctor writes a prescription, try not to fill it at the hospital pharmacy—especially the big hospital’s TCM dispensary.
Unwritten rules, you know: bottom-grade herbs, chemical adulterants.
Fertilizer that burns the soil can’t heal anything.
Don’t fear the hassle—go to a reputable, trustworthy herbal shop and fetch the herbs yourself!
A great physician with true virtue won’t take kickbacks on herbs; he’ll absolutely let you buy your own.
There used to be two good pharmacies in Shanghai, but after restructuring who knows.
In Beijing, I trusted White Pagoda Temple Pharmacy, though I’ve been away from China for years and can’t vouch for the quality now.