Now there is great debate over the fate of many medicines for which bans were implemented before they were called by their true names. "Whether a ban will have a real or just psychological impact on the Chinese medical community, there must be ample reason for banning a medicine," Huang Ming-teh says. Democratic countries have never banned drugs that cause people no harm.
現在許多藥材在還沒有來得及正名之前就被禁了，這種作法留下不少爭議，「不論對中醫、藥是否有實質、或心理影響，要禁掉任何一種藥，最重要的還是要有充分的理由」，黃明德說，在民主國家，從不會有衛生單位禁用對人體沒有傷害性的藥材。