Question
My father developed a mental illness as a child due to an accident, not a congenital condition. I am newly married and planning to have children, but I am concerned about the possibility of this disease being transmitted across generations.
Answer
Schizophrenia is caused by brain function disorders, characterized by abnormal mental activities. This disease is primarily caused by adverse environmental factors acquired later in life. If the descendants are not affected by these adverse environmental factors, they will not develop the disease. Currently, Western medicine and drugs are mainly used to control abnormal symptoms and have shown some effectiveness in treatment. However, these drugs have a strong dependency, and if the dosage is insufficient or the medication is discontinued, symptoms may recur, requiring lifelong medication and with significant side effects that harm brain and heart, liver, and kidney functions. Regular checks of liver and kidney functions are needed, and long-term and large doses of medication can lead to brain shrinkage. Patients may experience depression, sluggish reaction, slow speech, catatonia, etc., affecting normal work and daily life. Western medicine considers this disease to be a world puzzle. In traditional Chinese medicine, schizophrenia is known as epilepsy and mania, and treatment involves clearing the mind, waking the spirit, regulating qi and relieving depression, calming the mind and startling, clearing heat and resolving phlegm to adjust and repair abnormal symptoms to achieve recovery. Chinese medicine does not have a dependency, so it can achieve both the root and surface treatment effects, and there will be no recurrence after stopping medication. The Bai Herbal Medicine treatment has good effects, and after years of clinical experiments, it has shown to be a broad spectrum antipsychotic drug effective for both positive and negative symptom patients. It is definitely effective with no side effects.