What are the brands of medical herbal therapy preparations?

Currently, domestically compliant and accessible medical herbal therapy preparations (that is, herbal preparations that have obtained drug approval or Class II or above qualifications and can be used in clinical scenarios) are mostly the corresponding product lines of traditional Chinese medicine companies such as Yunnan Baiyao, Pien Tze Huang, Tong Ren Tang, Ma Yinglong, Xiu Xiu, etc. In recent years, brands such as Fuljia and Kefumei, which focus on post-medical art repair, have also launched compliant herbal medical dressing products.

If you go to different departments of the hospital every day, you will most likely have come into contact with such products. For example, Yunnan Baiyao aerosol is commonly prescribed for surgical treatment of bumps and sprains, Mayinglong Musk Hemorrhoid Cream is commonly used in anorectal departments, and Kefumei Herbal Soothing Cold Compress is prescribed by dermatology departments for patients with sensitive skin or post-medical art. They are all familiar to ordinary consumers.

However, this track is currently controversial. Some Western medicine practitioners believe that herbal ingredients are complex. If the purification process is not in place, the risk of sensitization is much higher than that of chemical preparations with a single ingredient. There are also many clinical data from traditional Chinese medicine and dermatology showing that herbal preparations that meet the purification standards are more advantageous in terms of mildness and long-term improvement effects for skin or soft tissue problems such as chronic eczema and repeated redness that require long-term conditioning.

A while ago, I accompanied my best friend to see a patient with recurring chronic eczema. She had previously experienced relapses as soon as she stopped using pure hormonal Western ointments. This time the doctor prescribed Tong Ren Tang’s herbal eczema ointment. After using it for almost two months as prescribed, the recurrence frequency has indeed dropped a lot, and the previous problem of skin thinning has not appeared.

In addition to these market-oriented brands, many tertiary hospitals also have many useful herbal products hidden in their homemade preparations, such as Sophora flavescens antipruritic liniment from Shanghai Huashan Hospital, and dehumidifier ointment from Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. However, these preparations go through an in-hospital approval process and can only be issued and purchased in the hospital. They cannot be widely distributed, and ordinary consumers rarely know about them.

By the way, I would like to mention one more thing. Nowadays, many Internet celebrity products are popular as "medical herbs". In fact, they only have cosmetic brand qualifications and are not formal medical preparations at all. Before buying, it is best to check the product registration number on the official website of the Food and Drug Administration to avoid being scammed. My colleague fell into the trap of selling words a while ago and bought a "medical herbal anti-acne cream" that was touted as amazing. After using it for a week, my face was filled with tears. After checking the registration, I found out that it was just an ordinary cosmetic without even the most basic qualifications for a brand name.