Yang Shih-fu, the third-generation owner of an herbal pharmacy on Tihua Street, remarks, "Many customers come in to buy medicine with prescriptions that include acrid or even toxic ingredients such as croton seeds, secretio bufonis and Xanthoxylum bungei. These are simply anesthetics that are applied to the reproductive organs. Herbal pharmacists don't recommend customers. to take prescriptions of this ilk."
迪化街中藥鋪老店第三代老闆楊世福表示：「許多客人拿著民間的春藥偏方來抓藥，然而從那些藥單上的蟾酥、花椒、巴豆等辛辣、甚至是有毒的材料看來，不過只是一種擦在生殖器上的麻醉藥，業者並不鼓勵顧客使用這樣的藥方。」