After returning to China, Chen Xia spent most of his time at the Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Factory, working with a group of Chinese medicine experts to study the production process of Chinese patent medicines and product screening.
Dongchuanwu is embroiled in lawsuits and is unlikely to recover. As the world's leading manufacturer of Chinese patent medicine (Kampo medicine), their vacant market share has become a target for everyone to scramble for.
Chen Xia regretted it then. Damn, he found that his pumpkin vines were not prepared at all, and he missed a good opportunity to grab the market.
It felt good at the time, but now I’m scratching my head.
Currently, there are not many Chinese patent medicine products under the name of Nanguateng Pharmaceutical, only three types: "Sanliu Weitai", "Sanliu Feitai" and "Shiquan Bushen Wine".
These three medicines are just wolves in sheep's clothing; the real therapeutic effects are the Western medicine ingredients added to them.
There is no problem in selling these "compound medicines" domestically, but if they are exported abroad, they will be exposed immediately and will not pass the relevant review.
Therefore, if Pumpkin Vine wants to become the world's number one exporter of traditional Chinese medicine, it must have its own flagship product, and it must be pure traditional Chinese medicine.
Chen Xia decided to try to release the most mature medicines he had first.
The first one is "Bao Xin Wan".
The original owner of the secret recipe, Li Weiyuan, is now in Yuezhou. His grandson's hematopoietic stem cell transplant surgery was very successful. Now he just needs to take anti-rejection drugs on time.
So Old Man Li followed his original promise and accompanied his grandson for treatment while working at Four Seasons Hospital with peace of mind.
Is there anyone in the world who knows the recipe for "Bao Xin Wan" better than Li Weiyuan? How could Chen Xia let him go?
He established the "Heart Pill Working Group" with pumpkin vines, and Li Weiyuan became a consultant.
As for the core medicinal materials needed for the Heart-Protecting Pills, such as natural bezoar, natural musk, ginseng, etc., others may be in short supply, but Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceuticals has no shortage of them at all.
The second product is "Angong Niuhuang Pills", which is a "miracle medicine".
The name of Angong Niuhuang Wan is not only used for products produced by Tongrentang, but also for products produced by other pharmaceutical factories.
Domestic pharmaceutical factories such as Zhongyitang, Jiuzhitang, Darentang, Tongjun Pavilion, etc., are all producing this medicine.
(There are at least 10 pharmaceutical companies in China that produce Angong Niuhuang Wan, so to say that this is a top-secret national prescription is pure nonsense.)
Since others can use this name, Chen Xia will certainly not miss it.
The five words "Angong Niuhuang Wan" are a golden signboard. In 1992, this signboard had not yet been tarnished by buffalo horns, artificial bezoar, and artificial musk.
After the sale of rhino horns was banned in the market in 1993, Pumpkin Vine happened to have a large stock of rhino horns and natural bezoar and musk, so this golden signboard belonged only to Pumpkin Vine.
"Angong Niuhuang Wan" produced by other factories is useless, including Tong Ren Tang. Only the one produced by pumpkin vine is effective.
The patient is not blind, so it is obvious what choice he will make.
Dear readers, from this point you can see Chen Xia’s foresight.
Since 1981, when he founded his first family workshop in Meiyuan, he entrusted almost all of his profits to the former Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Company to help him purchase those precious Chinese patent medicines.
For the next 10 years, no matter how fast the pumpkin vines grew, Chen Xia never changed his strategy of purchasing precious Chinese medicinal raw materials.
Things like ginseng, cordyceps, tiger bones, and the most common ones are "natural bezoar" and "natural musk" and so on.
These herbs are needed in almost all famous Chinese medicine prescriptions and secret recipes.
For example, among the most famous BJ Tongrentang’s top ten signature medicines, eight of them require the use of the above-mentioned precious medicinal materials.
They are "Angong Niuhuang Pills", others such as "Niuhuang Shangqing Pills", "Dahuo Luo Pills", "Qingxin Pills", "Zixue Powder", "Jufang Zhibao Pills", "Zaizao Pills" and "Zhuangu Yaojiu".
From this ratio, we can imagine how important these precious Chinese medicinal materials are.
Tongrentang, owned by Bai Jingqi, the seventh master of Bai family, was once very famous. Why did it become worse and worse later on?
In addition to the lack of responsibility among pharmaceutical manufacturers, the lack of precious Chinese medicinal materials and restricted use is also a decisive factor.
At first, Chen Xia used Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Company to help with purchasing. Later, he went to the place of origin to purchase directly in the name of the company, or placed orders directly with the factory.
Over the years, I don’t know how many raw material manufacturers have been supported, and Chen Xia almost monopolized all the production in those years.
Now in his space hospital, the five floors of the inpatient department are filled with antiques and curios, while the entire ten floors are filled with precious Chinese medicinal materials. Even the underground parking lot is filled with hundreds of containers of medicinal materials.
The medicinal herbs that were worth little back then, let alone decades later, even in 1992, ten years later, had appreciated by many times?
This is a huge fortune, definitely more valuable than jade.
The key point is that it is out of print. Even if you have money later, you can't buy much.
Just like rhino horns, how many are left in Africa? How much would we get if we slaughtered them all?
Others don’t have it, but the pumpkin vine has it, and this is called “advantage”.
The third medicine Chen Xia planned to produce was "Liuwei San".
This is the secret recipe stolen from Dongchuanwu, the same recipe that Zhu Ziyu from Yangcheng broke his promise to me.
This is a secret recipe for treating heatstroke. Its actual efficacy is even better than that of drugs such as Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui and Ren Dan.
Moreover, Liuwei Powder has a refreshing taste, which is more easily accepted by patients. It does not contain alcohol and can also be taken by children.
It is not like Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, which tastes too bitter and smells too bad. Many people who suffer from heatstroke vomit it out directly after drinking it. So how can we talk about its efficacy?
At the same time, Liuwei San has a unique function, which is to take a cotton ball soaked in Liuwei San and apply it on the belly button, which also has a fever-reducing effect, which is very magical.
Of course, Chen Xia was not clear about the specific principles of fever reduction. The Chinese medicine doctor explained things like yin, yang, spleen, and qi, but no one knew what he was talking about. Therefore, further research and confirmation was needed with reference to Western medicine methods.
Although the use of Liuwei San has obvious seasonality, it is a medicine that can be used for three years after it is used.
This sales volume and profit are enough to launch pumpkin vine as the first batch of Chinese patent medicine on the market.
The fourth medicine that Chen Xia asked to be developed was the "snake venom prescription" that he personally brought back from the Northeast.
Currently, Pumpkin Vine is the only manufacturer of anti-snake venom serum in China, and Four Seasons Hospital is the most powerful "snake bite treatment center" in the country.
Originally it relied on the model of anti-snake venom serum + hemodialysis + ICU. Now, as long as the research of Northeast snake medicine is successful, it will be a great thing to add wings to the tiger.
By then, all the critically ill snakebite patients from across the country and around the world will be sent to Yuezhou. Think about it, isn’t this a huge market?
Four Seasons Hospital is so awesome.
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