Most Chinese remedies are composite concoctions. "Quince and Tiger Bone Wine" contains a dozen or more ingredients, but the active one is not really tiger bone, for Chinese herbalists have since discovered much more effective tonics for the bones, tendons and muscles than tiger bone. Thus giving up the use of tiger bone would not have much effect on Chinese herbal treatments.
中國藥方大都是複方，含有十幾種藥方的木瓜虎骨酒裡，真正發揮功能的其實不是虎骨，因為後來的中醫早就發現療效比虎骨更好的強筋健骨藥材；沒有虎骨，對中醫治病不會有太大影響。