不過,隨著醫療科技的進展,現在出現了不用化學藥物刺激的全新解法。美國食品藥物管理局(FDA)近年以 De Novo(全新醫材)途徑核准了一款「震動膠囊」。這顆不是藥的膠囊,吞下去後會抵達大腸,並且定時震動,用物理動力把罷工的腸子「叫醒」。你到底是哪一型便秘?瀉藥為什麼會越吃越重?這顆震動膠囊真的有效嗎、又適合誰用?讓我們先從腸道裡的物理學開始說起。
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另一方面,為了保存中醫的「治療價值」,他們援引現代免疫學及抵抗力理論,大力主張必須保存「證」的概念與名稱。為了達成雙重的目標──一方面讓中醫納入細菌理論的新知,另一方面又保存中醫有實效的治療與診斷技術──他們發展出「辨證論治」的雛形,而這個雛形在中共建政後被提升為「傳統中醫」(Traditional Chinese Medicine)的決定性特徵。