In summer, almost every home will prepare several bottles of [Huoxiang Zhengqi Water]. In addition to the generally recognized effect of [preventing summer heat and relieving summer heat], it is said that it can also treat colds, diarrhea and prevent prickly heat. However, is Huoxiang Zhengqi Water really that magical?
Today, let’s take a good look at this [national magic medicine]. After taking it, perhaps mothers can consider throwing it out of the family medicine cabinet.
Can Huoxiang Zhengqi Water Really Treat Heatstroke?
Is what suffering from heatstroke?
In hot summer or early autumn, high temperature weather can cause changes in human body’s body temperature regulation, water and salt metabolism and other physiological functions. When the body cannot compensate for water in time and cool down properly, heatstroke may occur.
Can Huoxiang Zhengqi Water Treat Heatstroke?
Huoxiang Zhengqi Liquid contains a large amount of alcohol, accounting for 40%-50% of the total volume. However, in the heatstroke prevention and treatment measures issued by the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, it is specially emphasized that liquid preparations containing alcohol cannot be drunk to supplement water.
Because, the use of alcohol-containing preparations is more likely to cause the body to lose water. What people suffering from heatstroke need most is to replenish water and electrolyte to cool their bodies.
People who often drink white wine should have such experience. After drinking wine, they will be especially thirsty. Similarly, drinking Huoxiang Zhengqi Water after heatstroke will make the originally thirsty heatstroke patients worse. Therefore, whether it is to treat or prevent heatstroke, Huoxiang Zhengqi Water is not suitable.
Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, do you have other effects?
1. Treat colds and diarrhea?
Reading the drug instructions of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, we can see that the indications show that it can treat colds and diarrhea. However, there is no scientific basis for what.
Common cold is divided into [common cold] and [influenza]. Diarrhea is also divided into many types, including diarrhea caused by pathogen infection and diarrhea caused by dyspepsia.
Colds and diarrhea caused by different reasons need to be treated with different drugs. Otherwise, the treatment will not only be ineffective, but also aggravate the disease.
2. Prevention and treatment of prickly heat?
Prickly heat, also known as sweat rash, is a small blister or mound herpes caused by excessive sweating in a high temperature environment.
Many babies grow prickly heat in summer, especially on the face, neck, back and upper chest. Although it is not serious, the baby will cry and feel uneasy due to pruritus and burning pain. Many mothers heard that Huoxiang Zhengqi Water can treat prickly heat and want to use it for the baby, but this method is not recommended.
The state has not approved Huoxiang Zhengqi Water to prevent or treat prickly heat. If it is used in this way, there is still a lack of relevant evidence. Moreover, the alcohol concentration of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water is so high, the baby’s skin is so delicate, and the baby will really feel very painful when applied on it!
In fact, the best way to prevent prickly heat is to control the indoor temperature, dress properly and don’t let the child heat. This is the fundamental way.
Does Huoxiang Zhengqi Water have side effects?
1. Do not take it with cephalosporins
Through many literature reports, it is found that ethanol in Zhenghuoxiang Zhengqi Liquid, combined with cephalosporins and nitroimidazole drugs, will cause [disulfiram-like reaction]. The main manifestations are: facial flushing, dyspnea, nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, chest tightness, etc.
Severe cases can lead to respiratory depression, myocardial infarction and even death.
2. Alcohol allergy is not suitable for people.
Huoxiang Zhengqi Water contains a large amount of alcohol, which is not suitable for people with alcohol allergy.
3. Pregnant women and children in particular cannot use it.
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Pregnant women use it at risk of abortion.
Huoxiang Zhengqi Water also contains toxic medicinal materials-raw Pinellia ternate. In the 2015 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, Pinellia ternate is explicitly listed in the list of toxic medicinal materials.
Studies have shown that Pinellia ternate has significant toxic effects on animal embryos, which can lead to reproductive toxicity such as maternal vaginal hemorrhage, early embryo death and teratogenicity and mutagenicity in fetal development.
Therefore, pregnant women will have the risk of miscarriage or fetal teratogenicity.
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Babies are at risk of poisoning.
In addition to the above risks, Pinellia ternata also has a serious effect on the nervous system, which can lead to inhibition and even paralysis of the nervous system. Not only that, high concentration of alcohol is also very likely to make the baby alcoholism.
There have been many reports of poisoning cases of children of different ages using Huoxiang Zhengqi water in China. Children have sudden convulsions or coma toxic reactions after taking Huoxiang Zhengqi water. Therefore, we must not use it for babies! In addition, breast-feeding women, the elderly and the infirm, hypertension, heart disease, liver disease, diabetes, kidney disease and other serious chronic diseases should also be used with caution.
In addition, because Huoxiang Zhengqi water contains a lot of alcohol, parents who want to drive should not take it before driving.
The above situation should attract more attention. Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, It is a well-known Chinese patent medicine, but it is not a Chinese patent medicine with super high safety. No matter what kind of people, please don’t use it indiscriminately. From the perspective of the public, for this kind of special people, you should choose safer drugs. Therefore, mothers, you can now throw Huoxiang Zhengqi water out of the medicine cabinet!