Western Drugs ⁽²⁾

Glutathione (brand name Atopolan; available as both injection and tablets) is a commonly used adjuvant drug in oncology. In the body, glutathione exists in two forms: reduced glutathione (GSH) and oxidized glutathione (GSSG). Its active component is reduced glutathione, which participates in redox processes within…

Patients seeing Western doctors assume that one disease has one drug, and that taking it faithfully to the end will cure them; they assume TCM works the same way. If treating disease were this simple in TCM, it would be ideal. Unfortunately, it is not:…