Pharmacies, after all, are in business to sell medicine. Because animal-based medicinal ingredients are expensive, they may overplay the curative powers of rare and expensive medicines for the sake of higher profit margins. And then there's the problem that Chinese medicine is often the medical avenue of last resort.
尤其中藥房目的是賣藥，是商業行為，由於動物藥材常是貴重藥材，利潤較高，中藥商也可能為了商業利益，對購藥者強調稀有、貴重藥材的療效。