Opium Problem Under That Medical Science And Trade Overlapping

Opium is a special kind of medicine,which can treat many clinical diseases,but it is very easy to cause people to take dependency if we use it frequently.Because it has the special addictive nature,we may think the opium is also a kind of narcotics.In the eyes of many people,the opium is fruit of the evil and a synonym for evil,but they do not know that the evil roots from medicinal attribute of the opium.Since it was discovered that opium as a medicine in clinical application can generate the shortcomings of addiction.They use its addictive nature for selfishness and make the opium trade. Satisfied with its economic interest while causing the serious harm to the human health,thus they established the opium name of the evil.This article has two parts.The first part introduces opium's biological attribute,the scope of cultivating areas in the world and the history of its medicinal value after coming to China;Then the author analysises the opium trade in China by Britain and the United States for economic aggression.Actually the opium trading did very big harm to Chinese people's health.Regarding this we do the research from opium trade's scale and quantity.The next part focus on the dual special attributes of opium and on the analysis of opium's merits and demerits from medicine angle.Opium can treat many diseases as raw material for medicine.There are many Chinese medicine's records in books of previous dynasties.It has lasting achievement.As addictive drug,the Opium's crime can not be remitted after the Ming dynasty in historical records.The special nature of medicinal opium damages human health, not only hurt Chinese people's physique,but also does more importantly in the spirit of the devastation.Britain and the United States for economic purposes initiated the opium trade which catered for the special people dependent on opium. Opium trade has be promoted crazily,and then has cruelly harmed the innumerable Chinese people,which triggered the Opium War and caused many innocent Chinese people were Buried.At the same time the opium trade to the Chinese nation has brought new diseases and increased many medicinal questions.Recognizing the dual nature of opium in particular their medicinal value and the special nature of addiction will help us understand why the opium trade has enabled China to fall into decay.