Consequently, in modern times few bona fide doctors of traditional Chinese medicine have been carrying out research on the specific--and what they regard as merely symptomatic--problem of impaired sexual function. Yet this absence of research has given rise to all manner of bizarre folk prescriptions and quack nostrums aimed at combating impotency. Users are left to determine for themselves whether any of these remedies actually works or if they have noxious side effects.
因此，在近代中醫學術界裡，針對性器官功能障礙的研究反而少見，這使得陽萎的治療更流於偏方式的千奇百怪，是否真有療效，是否對人體有害，往往也只能碰碰運氣「以身試藥」了。