Chen Chieh-pu, head of the National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine (ICM), notes that there are good points and bad points to traditional Chinese aphrodisiacs and remedies aimed at combating impotency or frigidity. Prescriptions like those described above that bring about long-term erections at the price of a loss of sensation seem far removed from the realm of beautiful feelings typically conjured up by the idea of sex.
國立中國醫藥研究所所長陳介甫也表示，中國的春藥有好有壞，像這樣使人失去「感覺」，麻木不仁而達到持久的偏方，已經完全背離性事的美好精神了。