Chinese medicines

I went yesterday to a well known drugstore with my dorm mates to buy some medicine.
And I was really suprised to find old traditional Chinese ointments that I never understood if they were really effective or just plain dependent on the placebo effect.

I also saw in that store shelves upon shelves of different colored bottles containg different liquids that promised to solve man's mundane maladies.

Sheez talk about real drugstore XD