After traveling to 1960, Lin Sanqi is always thinking about the differences between Chinese and Western medicine.
Even though he has the reputation of being a child of a family of traditional Chinese medicine, he is an out-and-out Western medicine practitioner at heart. He has been studying for 5 years as a Western medicine undergraduate and a postgraduate student. He has learned all the theories and knowledge of Western medicine, and his thinking has been unable to change.
Although "transfer from west to middle school" is very popular in major hospitals, how can it be so easy to learn it well? Most of them are memorized by rote for the certificate.
So many times when looking at Chinese medicine, Lin Sanqi unconsciously adopts the perspective of Western medicine, which makes him very conflicted.
For example, this "water flying method" involves grinding, stirring, settling and drying, and powdering and grinding.
Among the more than 100 processes, this small process alone requires a worker to spend a full 7 days to complete.
The efficiency is so low and the procedures are so complicated that it is simply outrageous.
If mass production is carried out, the labor cost alone will make people desperate. One is that it is difficult to recruit so many craftsmen. The water flying method is definitely a technical job that ordinary people cannot do.
Even if you recruit skilled workers, large-scale production requires a large number of workers. Can you afford the labor costs? Can profits be supported?
In fact, from the perspective of a modern person like Lin Sanqi, the "water flying method" can be completely replaced by machines.
For example, if you want fine particles of medicinal materials, you can spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy an "800 mesh grinder". The fine particles produced by this machine are not much different from the traditional "water flying method", and can also Save a lot of labor costs.
Then the problem comes.
Should Chinese medicine be made according to ancient methods and according to the traditional method? Or can modern machinery and equipment replace traditional craftsmanship?
If all the medicines produced by machines and production lines are used, can the curative effect be the same as that of traditional medicines?
If the efficacy and quality are the same, can traditional Chinese medicine extracted with modern pharmaceutical equipment still be called traditional Chinese medicine?
This is all controversial.
Just like after Grandma Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize, the controversy was huge.
Western medicine believes that artemisinin itself is a chemical component that is extracted from plants. After being purified and developed using Western medicine technology, it is made into chemical drugs that are currently used clinically, and is considered a Western medicine.
The traditional Chinese medicine school believes that the winner Tu Youyou works at the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the National Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, not a Western medicine research institution.
The professional title she applied for was also Chinese medicine, not Western medicine;
Artemisinin is extracted from the traditional Chinese medicine Artemisia annua, rather than from some Western medicine. The extraction process of artemisinin was inspired by the traditional Chinese medicine book "Emergency Prescription", rather than any Western medicine book.
It can be seen that artemisinin is definitely a traditional Chinese medicine.
There are also centrists who put forward a proposal to "modernize traditional Chinese medicine."
It is the process of using modern science and technology to research, develop, produce, and manage traditional Chinese medicine to improve the quality and efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, ensure safety, and comply with modern medical standards and international norms.
This process involves the cultivation, processing, extraction, preparation, quality control, clinical application and other aspects of traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine all needs to be improved.
However, there are also strong opponents who feel that Chinese medicine has its own set of theories and practices, so why should it be tested according to the generation of Western medicine?
I feel that this is unnecessary and insulting to traditional Chinese medicine, so I strongly oppose it and will not change it.
So Chinese medicine is really messed up now, from top to bottom, inside and out.
Now Lin Sanqi also relies on traditional Chinese medicine to make a living, and is already the largest supplier of high-end Chinese medicinal materials in Dongguang Province.
In the future, should you take advantage of the chaos and fish in troubled waters to make a fortune, or should you invest a lot of scientific research funds into traditional Chinese medicine to find a path that suits you and is in line with mainstream medicine?
This also tests Comrade Lin Sanqi's wisdom and conscience.
In Lin Sanqi's confusion, Mr. Ding Zhongying also started the production process of the Eight Treasure Pills, and then a lot of core materials.
"Xiao Qi, you have to remember that the core of the Eight Treasures Pill recipe is 5% bezoar, 3% musk, 7% snake gall and 85% notoginseng. In fact, this ratio is wrong. If you use this ratio, it will be mixed. The effectiveness of the Eight Treasure Pills is far from enough.
In fact, the real formula is 4% bezoar, 2.5% musk, 5.5% snake gall, 1.8% antelope horn, 4.2% pearl, 5% borneol, 65% notoginseng, and 6.5% northeastern wild ginseng. ”
Lin Sanqi was surprised: "Hey, there is actually Northeast wild ginseng? This is not mentioned in the public prescription."
Mr. Ding touched his beard:
"It's not just these eight medicinal materials. In fact, there are also several medicinal materials such as elephant skin, amber, dragon bone, indigo, Wu Ming powder, and lugan stone. Together they account for 5%. This is the complete and authentic eight medicinal materials. Bao Dan Fang is what you call Pien Tze Huang’s real secret recipe.”
Pan Ye sighed from the side:
"It turns out that everyone has been misunderstood. They thought that the Eight Treasures Pill recipe only has eight herbs. It turns out that there are 14 herbs."
Mr. Ding chuckled:
"Didn't Xiaoqi say that many people use Pien Tze Huang as a tonic? In fact, there is a certain truth to it, because the real medicine in it is ginseng, not the musk ox yellow snake gallbladder that everyone thinks.
Ginseng, it’s a good supplement, right?
In addition, when there were no anti-inflammatory drugs in the past, Pien Tze Huang could play an anti-infective role. According to the explanation of Western medicine, the real function of Pien Tze Huang is not to kill bacteria, but to enhance immunity, and then let the body's immune cells kill bacteria on their own. ”
Lin Sanqi rubbed her hands together excitedly, never expecting that two of the country's permanent secret recipes, Yunnan Baiyao and Pien Tze Huang, would be known to her so easily.
According to information on the Internet, the brand value of the three words "Pien Tze Huang" alone has reached more than 20 billion yuan, so this is definitely a cornucopia.
Thinking of the brand effect, Lin Sanqi thought of a piece of news that she had found on the Internet before.
There are 84 trademarks related to "Pien Tze Huang", including "Pien Tze Huang", "Pien Tze Huang; PIENTZEHUANG", "Pien Tze Huang PZH", "Pien Tze Huang Hongren", "Pien Tze Huang Qingjie", "Pien Tze Huang Queen" and other trademarks, all owned by Zhangzhou Pien Tze Huang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. applied for trademark registration.
Later, a traditional Chinese medicine factory in Xiamen developed a Pien Tze Huang medical gel under the guidance of an expert. It wanted to use the name "Pien Tze Huang", but was sued.
The two companies fought two lawsuits, and Xiamen lost both.
Who said Zhangzhou Factory is a state-owned enterprise?
Xiamen was dissatisfied and pointed out that the name "Pien Tze Huang" came from the folk. It was originally a secret recipe of the imperial physician of the Ming Dynasty and was not invented by the Zhangzhou factory itself. Therefore, the name Pien Tze Huang cannot be monopolized by one person or one factory.
Zhangzhou Factory pointed out that you said it was spread among the people. What evidence do you have?
Then the lawsuit stalled.
In fact, this logic is a bit gangster logic. After all, everyone on earth knows that Pien Tze Huang has been passed down from folk to folk since ancient times, and there is no clear inventor.
But Zhangzhou Factory has a very powerful rebuttal. You said it is a folk medicine that has been passed down since ancient times. So why is it that only our Zhangzhou Factory has a secret recipe and you don’t?
On the other hand, even if Lin Sanqi masters the secret recipe and wants to sell Lingnan Tang brand Pien Tze Huang, it is entirely possible that the Zhangzhou factory will sue and ban the sale.
China is a country ruled by law, and everything must be done in accordance with the law.
"Master Ding, let me give you an analogy. Now both the Xinglin circle and the public know that Babaodan and Master Pien Tze Huang come from the same school. They are actually twin brothers. You also said that I can sell it directly under the name of Pien Tze Huang.
However, the Zhangzhou factory has a monopoly on the word Pien Tze Huang. Only the pills produced by their factory can be called Pien Tze Huang. No one else is allowed to use this drug name. So how can I break the situation? ”
Mr. Ding was a little surprised:
"The food in this Zhangzhou factory is so ugly? Does it not allow others to use Pien Tze Huang? Why? There was no such rule when I was in Fuzhou."
Lin Sanqi thought to herself, it's 1960, all pharmaceutical factories are state-owned enterprises, and everyone is a state-owned enterprise. Of course, it's easy to talk about it. You use it, I use it, everyone uses it. I'm good, I'm good, everyone is good.
But it will be different in a few decades. Pien Tze Huang is worth more than 20 billion, and of course it will not be used by you.
"If you don't want to use it, then don't use it. Anyway, Pien Tze Huang's name is only famous in Hu Jian. You can sell it under the name of Babaodan. Everyone in Hu Jian will recognize it."
Lin Sanqi couldn't laugh or cry. The common people in 1960 didn't matter to you, but the bosses in 2023 don't see it that way.
In 2023, the medicine Babaodan was also sold on the market, but this medicine was unknown, inconspicuous, low-priced, and had no economic value at all.
"Master, our medicine must be sold well. If we sell enough to make money, we can exchange for more food. So I must use the name Pien Tze Huang. Is there any ancient book recording that Pien Tze Huang and Babao Dan are actually the same prescription?" ?”
Mr. Ding laughed and nodded to Lin Sanqi:
"Your thinking is wrong. In fact, there was the Eight Treasure Pill first. Later, because the Eight Treasure Pill has the effect of reducing Huang, it is commonly known as "Pien Tze Huang" among the people. This "Zai" is the modal particle in our southern Fujian dialect, and "Huang" is The meaning of heat, poison, swelling and pain.
In this way, among the ancient books I handed you, there is a book called "Puyuan Mountain Notes". This book was handed down from the Ming Dynasty. It is said that it was written by the imperial doctor who fled the country. It clearly records the eight treasure elixirs. It should be the earliest record.
In addition, there is also a copy of "Longxi Fanggekuo" written by Lu Dazhong, a famous doctor of Min Dynasty, which records the origin of Pien Tze Huang's folk name. It is clear that Pien Tze Huang is the alias of Babaodan. This is very direct evidence, and you are not afraid of a lawsuit. ”
At this time, Mr. Shi suddenly spoke and added:
"I have a Buddhist medical book "Yi Fang Ming", which contains even more complete records. It clearly records that the Buddhist holy medicine Eight Treasure Pills was produced by 'Monk Yanhou' after he returned to secular life, and sold the Eight Treasure Pills under the "Monk Hat Brand" Pien Tze Huang. Manufactured and sold under the name.”
Mr. Ding nodded repeatedly and said:
"Yes, yes, Pien Tze Huang was originally called Monk Mao Pai. In 1956, it was renamed Litchi Pai. This is all documented. How could the Zhangzhou factory monopolize the name Pien Tze Huang?"
Lin Sanqi gave a high-five, and the wave stabilized.
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In 2023, Huadu First People’s Hospital, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Mr. Mao Yichen, the old director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was studying a pill for a long time. Finally, he broke off a little and put it in his mouth, savoring it carefully. Lin Sanqi, Yin Lianyi, Song Jiming, director of brain surgery, and Fu Guoding, Mr. Mao's eldest disciple and current director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, all sat nearby and waited for the results. The scene was very quiet.
After a while, Mr. Mao took the water cup from his apprentice and rinsed his mouth:
"Xiao Lin, you are testing me, an old man. Haha, I can conclude that your Angong Niuhuang Pills are not produced by Tongrentang. Unless Tongrentang could produce them 70 years ago, Tongrentang can no longer produce them."
Lin Sanqi chuckled:
"Teacher Mao, you guessed the first one correctly. This Angong Niuhuang Pill is indeed not from Tongrentang. So based on your old standards, do you think this Angong Niuhuang Pill is qualified?"
Mr. Mao blurted out without thinking:
"It's not just qualified, it's far superior. If nothing else, the production process of the Angong Wan you brought is different from that of Tongrentang. In addition, the formula of your Angong Wan has also been changed.
The key is not these, the key is that I have not encountered the materials used in your Angong Wan for decades. This musk alone is not artificial, nor is it natural, but purely wild. Oh dear, what a generous person. ”
Lin Sanqi gave a thumbs up:
"The old man is so smart that he can even taste wild musk, but why do you say it's a big deal? No matter how expensive this musk is, how expensive can it be?"
As mentioned before, natural musk costs between 400 and 1,000 yuan per gram. This price is comparable to gold, or even more expensive.
Lin Sanqi has no shortage of gold now, so she doesn't think it's very precious.
Mr. Mao was a little stunned when he heard Lin Sanqi's question, so he kindly reminded:
"Xiao Lin, let's not talk about whether the use of wild musk is allowed by the country. The price alone is 50,000 to 100,000 per gram. Who can afford it?"
Everyone in the room gasped instantly.
Lin Sanqi also slapped the table, and his whole body was so excited:
"Are you serious? Oh no, I misjudged the price. My musk is not only natural, but also wild. It costs tens of thousands per gram. How much is 2,000 kilograms of wild musk worth?"
Everyone thinks Lin Sanqi is going crazy, 2,000 kilograms of musk? 4,000 pounds? I wouldn't dare to think so in my wildest dreams.
Even if it is calculated as 50,000 per gram, one kilogram of wild musk is 50,000. How much does 2,000 kilograms cost? The computer can't display it.
Others thought he was talking nonsense, but who would have thought that Lin Sanqi actually had 2,000 kilograms of wild musk, which is almost the country's 10-year musk reserve.
Mr. Mao burst out laughing after hearing this:
"Xiao Lin, if you really had two tons of wild musk deer, you should have been able to shoot hundreds of times by now. The forest musk deer is a national first-level protected animal. Do you know what level it is? It is the same level as the giant panda.
If you wanted to collect two tons of wild musk deer, the carcasses of forest musk deer would have to be piled at least as high as Yuexiu Mountain. Currently, there are only over 20,000 wild and farmed forest musk deer in the country, which is not enough for you to kill. ”
Everyone in the office chuckled, and no one believed Lin Sanqi's lies.
Song Jiming from the brain surgery department looked at Lin Sanqi with a burning look in his eyes. He had seen the magic of Angong Niuhuang Pills and had always wanted to induce this drug on a large scale.
Firstly, it can set up research groups, and secondly, it can improve the recovery rate of comatose patients in brain surgery.
Director Song believes that the level of brain surgery at Huadu No. 1 Hospital is beyond praise. It has definitely reached the first-class level in the world, and there is not much gap between it and its peers.
The rest depends on the recovery rate after surgery.
Relatively speaking, the recovery rate after craniotomy for ordinary cerebral hemorrhage is relatively high, which can reach about 80%.
If the mortality rate of patients with extremely severe craniocerebral injury is extremely high, only about 20% of patients can regain consciousness and wake up.
If the brain herniation is caused by a car accident, the patient's chance of waking up is as low as only 15%.
This recovery rate is similar at home and abroad, and it can no longer be improved.
But what Director Song is thinking is, if the brain surgery department of Huadu No. 1 Hospital can use Angong Niuhuang Pills in large quantities, will the recovery rate be greatly improved?
It doesn’t need to be too much, just an increase of more than 10%. This is an amazing number that can make him surpass his domestic and foreign counterparts in one fell swoop.
Will academicians still be a problem then?
Because it was related to his own vital interests, when he learned that Lin Sanqi had developed his own "Angong Niuhuang Pill", he came uninvited and wanted to hear the results?
When he heard from Mr. Mao that Lingnan Tang's Angong Niuhuang Pills were more effective than Tong Ren Tang's, how could he not be moved?
Take action if your heart beats:
"Mr. Xiao Lin, now that Lingnan Tang has successfully developed its own Angong Niuhuang Pills, when will you plan to mass-produce it? I can't wait to cooperate with you."
Before Lin Sanqi could answer, Fu Guoding, Mr. Mao’s eldest disciple and the director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, expressed his pessimism:
"Old Song, there is no big problem with Mr. Xiao Lin's private research on pharmaceuticals. It can be regarded as a scientific research activity. But if he wants to set up a factory to produce it himself, it is unlikely, otherwise Tong Ren Tang will not use synthetic raw materials. ”
Mr. Mao also nodded in agreement:
"Yes, natural raw materials are indeed not allowed to be used in drug production. However, there are special exceptions. As long as the relevant national departments approve, natural musk and the like can also be used.
For example, Liushen Pills of Shanghai Leiyunshang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Angong Niuhuang Pills of Tongrentang, Pien Tze Huang produced by Zhangzhou Factory, etc., are specially approved to use natural musk and bezoar.
But Mr. Xiaolin, don’t be too happy too early. These companies that can use natural musk and other medicinal materials are all not giant pharmaceutical companies. They are state-owned enterprises. Their connections and backgrounds are beyond the comparison of small private companies like you. ”
Lin Sanqi scratched his head a little, this was what he was most afraid of.
If he couldn't produce drugs without raw materials, wasn't his work in 1960 in vain? Can’t monetize the traffic? ? ?
Yin Lianyi was smarter than Lin Sanqi. When she was listening carefully, she could tell the difference, so she interjected:
"Grandpa Mao, you always said that the use of this and that is not allowed in China. So, are these natural musks, natural bezoars, etc. allowed to be used abroad? Or are they allowed to be sold?"
Mr. Mao laughed after hearing this:
"Look, girls are smart. Foreigners don't use traditional Chinese medicine, so they don't ban the sale of natural musk. Moreover, this musk is an important raw material in the perfume industry, and it is even more impossible to ban it."
Yin Lianyi had already grasped the key to the problem and asked:
"Grandpa Mao, if foreigners also use musk, but our country does not allow it to be exported easily, does that mean that musk is not unique to our country, but is also produced in other countries?"
Director Fu helped his teacher explain:
"Musk is indeed not a specialty of our country. It is produced in other regions such as Nepal, India, Bhutan, Pakistan, Lao Myanmar, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, and Siberia of Russia. Russia, in particular, ranks first in export volume in the world.
Not to mention bezoars. To put it bluntly, bezoars are just stones. As long as there are cattle, there are bezoars. Therefore, this is not a precious thing abroad. Only our country is prohibited from buying and selling. ”
Yin Lianyi knew it well, so she made her own proposal:
"If there are raw materials such as musk bezoar abroad, and we have the secret recipes and production processes of Angong Niuhuang Wan and Pien Tze Huang, then can we set up factories abroad, such as Vietnam, Pakistan and other countries with low labor costs, and then export them to Coming from China?”
Director Song was happy when he heard this. He only wanted medicine, and he didn’t care whether it was made in China or abroad:
"Yes, yes, this is a good method. This way you can avoid legal problems."
Fu Guoding felt a little sorry for Lin Sanqi:
"If you set up a factory abroad and trigger domestic tariffs, the tariffs will be serious. Your logistics costs will increase significantly every time."
Lin Sanqi looked at Yin Lianyi, her eyes unable to stop admiring:
"Ah, Mr. Yin is indeed a business wizard. He can think of all these methods. It seems that setting up a factory abroad can indeed be considered."
Yin Lianyi also smiled: "Yes, I also feel that I am becoming more and more like a strong woman now."
Mr. Mao heard something unusual:
"Wait a minute, you have mastered the secret recipe of Pien Tze Huang? Is it true? This is a national secret recipe, and it is kept secret forever. Have you got it too?"
Lin Sanqi took out a pill from his backpack:
"Come on, old man, please taste it. Is there any difference between the Pien Tze Huang from our Lingnan Hall and the Pien Tze Huang from the Zhangzhou Factory?"
Mr. Mao was even more surprised: "Has it all been developed? Bring it over, bring it over."
After tasting for a long time, Mr. Mao exclaimed:
"It's better than the ones from the Zhangzhou factory. Mr. Xiao Lin, your Pien Tze Huang's ingredients are purer. I really don't know where you got this good fortune. Just because you got the two secret recipes of Angong Niuhuang Wan and Pien Tze Huang, your Lingnan Hall has a bright future." Infinite.”
Fu Guoding was also shocked. If it hadn't been his teacher who was appraising it, he would have doubted whether it was true. Two national confidential prescriptions.
"Yes, it is true that the money has unlimited potential, but the first word should be changed to money. In time, with these two medicines, the annual sales will easily reach hundreds of billions. I didn't see that Pien Tze Huang has restricted the purchase. It shows that the market demand is very huge.”
Director Song Jiming's inner thoughts: Hurry up production and mass production.
Lin Sanqi shrugged after hearing this:
"There are still many difficulties. One is where to set up a factory. The second is that good medicines may not necessarily have good sales. How to build up our Lingnan Tang brand in China so that patients can believe that the medicines produced by Lingnan Tang are far better than those of Tongrentang and Tongrentang." If the Zhangzhou factory produces well, this is a huge problem.”
Lin Sanqi doesn't understand business at all. (End of chapter)