Medication and drug interactions

Author: Zhang Yunhui & Huang Jwei
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book reminds you that the combination of chloramphenicol and erythromycin can produce antagonistic effects, the concurrent use of propranolol and clonidine may cause excessive hypotension, and the combination of tetracycline with Niuhuang Jiedu Pian can reduce efficacy.
When a person gets sick, the first thought is to go to the hospital. If after seeing a doctor once and taking the prescribed medicine, the illness is cured, that’s fine. If the medicine doesn’t help, people start to panic and seek treatment from various sources. Today, they bring back several boxes of medicine from a Western medicine doctor; tomorrow, they collect several packages of medicine from a traditional Chinese medicine doctor. One doctor sees them, then another doctor is called in. A lot of medicine is taken, but the illness doesn’t improve and sometimes even leads to other problems.
By now, readers must have guessed the reason. First, the medicine is not targeted at the illness; second, the drugs interact negatively with each other, and the latter is more likely. In the world, everything has its pros and cons, and this is especially true for drugs. If a patient takes two drugs that should not be taken together, the consequences can be quite terrifying. To help readers prevent problems before they happen, we have compiled the book Drug Interactions.
The book is divided into 10 parts. The first part is an introduction, focusing on the basic theory of drug interactions. The remaining nine parts introduce more than 400 interactions between drugs in nine major categories of common drugs, including antimicrobial drugs, analgesics and antipyretics, vitamins, hormones and endocrine-regulating drugs, nervous system drugs, respiratory system drugs, digestive system drugs, cardiovascular system drugs, and urinary system drugs.
The feature of this book lies in its connection between theory and clinical practice, striving to achieve scientific rigor, novelty, systematic organization, and practicality. The content is clearly arranged, making it easy for readers to read and reference.