Talk:Seirogan

This article should say in the introduction that Seirogan is a alternative drug .

Hello,

Something seems strange with this article.

Looking at other anti-diarrhea drugs, let's say Loperamide, one finds informations about the active ingredient of the medication in the right table. The mecanism of the drug is also described in Loperamide#Drug_interactions.

On the other hand, this article only says Seirogan uses a non fixed amount [1] of plants, some of which are here because of chinese medecine credentials [2]. The mecanism is not described.

Furthermore, the wood-tar creosote linked in this article points out that Seirogan is a "Kampo medicine" ie. Pseudomedicine.

I thus suggest to change the introduction sentence from

-Seirogan (正露丸 formerly 征露丸) is a pharmaceutical drug marketed in Japan, sold as a treatment of the digestive tract (especially as an antidiarrhoeal), whose main active ingredient is "wood creosote" (also wood-tar creosote, or beechwood creosote)

to

-Seirogan (正露丸 formerly 征露丸) is a Traditional Japanese medicine drug marketed in Japan, sold as a treatment of the digestive tract (especially as an antidiarrhoeal), whose main active ingredient is "wood creosote" (also wood-tar creosote, or beechwood creosote)

[1] The Seirogan#Chemical_composition paragraph describes the differents mixes of differents manufacturers

[2] "The wood creosote is blended with two or more crude medicines (生薬, shōyaku) recognized in Chinese materia medica (漢方薬, kanpōyaku) for their antiseptic and other effects"

2A01:E0A:4BD:42B0:E1B6:F732:EE14:30F8 (talk) 21:54, 15 June 2021 (UTC)