What are the best brands of medical herbal therapy preparations?

At present, there is no absolute “best” brand of medical herbal therapy preparations in the industry. Products from established pharmaceutical companies such as Yunnan Baiyao, Jingwanhong, and Conba are the ones with relatively high clinical recognition and popularity in China. Some medical herbal preparations imported from Europe also have a lot of fixed audiences in subcategories such as respiratory care and sensitive muscle repair.

I have been working as a resident pharmacist in a community pharmacy for the past three years, and I have told this countless times to the residents who come for consultation. Many people want “the most expensive and best brand” at first sight, but that is not the case at all. A while ago, there was a fitness instructor who often came here to buy medicine. He always asked someone to buy herbal soothing ointment from a certain European Internet celebrity. He said that the experience of applying Liangsisi was good. Until the last time he strained his back during deadlifts, and after using the imported ointment for a week, the pain was still so painful that he had to bend over. I gave him a tincture of Yunnan Baiyao and asked him to rub it into the local area according to the instructions. Within three days, he came and said that 80% of the pain was gone, and complained that he had spent three times the money.

There are now a lot of controversies about this type of product on the Internet. Some people believe that domestic herbal preparations are optimized based on traditional prescriptions and are more suitable for common problems such as bruises, burns, and respiratory inflammation. Some people think that the medical herbal industry in Europe developed earlier, the purification process is more stable, and the sensitization rate is lower. In fact, both opinions have their own basis, and there is no absolute right or wrong. For example, Jingwanhong ointment, which is used to care for burns and scalds, has been formulated for decades. The clinical data on promoting healing are shown here. It is indeed more effective than many imported products of the same type. ； But when it comes to nasal soothing herbal preparations for hay fever, some European brands are indeed more adaptable.

I have come across several cases of fraud in the past six months. They only look at the brand promotion and not the product qualifications. Some people use herbal creams with popular brand names as medical dressings to treat hormone-prone faces. The more they are applied, the more serious the redness becomes. Some people think that herbal products have no side effects, and they use excessive amounts of pain-relieving tinctures containing raw herbs without authorization. As a result, local skin is burned and blistered. If you really want to choose, there is no need to stick to the brand rankings. First, check the packaging to see if there is a national drug approval number or a formal medical device registration number, and then check the suitability of the ingredients according to your symptoms. If you are really unsure, ask the pharmacist or doctor around you, which is much more reliable than searching blindly on the Internet.