Traditional Chinese Medicine Guide

compound liquorice tablets and compound liquorice tablets are also popular medicines, mainly for cough expectorant. Institute of Drug Dependence, Peking University Professor Lu Lin, director of analysis, compound drugs and proprietary sources licorice Jilin, Gansu, and tea contains caffeine and theophylline, are all excited drugs, excessive intake of easily lead to addiction.

Professor Lu description, moderate use of caffeine, there is fatigue, the role of excitatory nerve clinically for the treatment of neurasthenia and coma recovery. However, the high-dose or long-term use will cause damage to the human body. “Because of its addictive, once the discontinuation of mental Weidun His body was weak, and other withdrawal symptoms sleepy.”
Professor Lu said, adding that although the weak caffeine addiction, withdrawal time The symptoms are not very serious, but long-term use because tolerance to such drugs will result in increasing dosage to achieve a certain amount, the caffeine is not only acting on the cerebral cortex, but also directly excited the medulla oblongata, causing paroxysmal convulsions and tremors bones, damage the liver, stomach, kidney, and other important internal organs, and induce respiratory inflammation, women’s diseases such as breast tumors, and even lead to the next generation of smart drugs are low, physical deformity. It is reported that drugs containing caffeine have been included under the scope of state control of psychotropic drugs.

single large doses of caffeine containing drugs may cause addiction directly. Take also for the cough syrup containing caffeine, some patients unconsciously addicted to the old drinking, drug taking; some people to quickly cure an illness of several large bottles of drink, so that may be “obsessed” only cough syrup.

In addition, caffeine, certain drugs will damage the baby, or even lead to deformity, pregnant women should be particularly careful when taking the drug.

(internship Editor: Du obsessed with)