At the same time, the "diarrhea incident" of Japan's Togawa-ya Kampo Medicine Co., Ltd. became more and more serious.
The reason is that there have been more than 5,000 cases of adverse reactions across the country, including more than 10 elderly men and women who were directly admitted to the intensive care unit due to dehydration caused by diarrhea.
Chinese herbal medicines exported abroad also caused diarrhea reactions, involving many countries, even the United States.
The Japanese Food and Drug Administration officially announced that in the 10 Chinese herbal medicines sampled and investigated, unknown substances outside the prescription were detected, namely rhubarb, senna leaves, and euphorbia.
And according to relevant experimental data, Dongchuanwu's Chinese herbal medicine is not only harmful to the gastrointestinal tract, but also causes certain damage to liver and kidney functions.
Nonsense, Chinese herbal prescriptions all have certain contraindications. Which herbs to use in a prescription, which not to use, how to combine them, and how much of each herbal ingredient to put in are all the result of thousands of years of clinical experiments.
Otherwise, why is it called a “secret recipe”?
If you just pick a few Chinese medicines at random and mix several Chinese medicinal herbs with different therapeutic effects together and dare to say that they are effective, then you are harming people.
Because Chen Xia added three other ingredients to these Chinese herbal medicines, this caused fundamental changes in the medicinal properties of these medicines.
Excessive use of a single Chinese medicinal material not only fails to cure the disease, but instead becomes a harmful "poison".
For example, toxicity tests for Euphorbia rapa show an oral LD50 of 1250 mg/kg. The LD50 for raw Euphorbia rapa is 57.53 g/kg, while that for 70% vinegar treatment is 197.49 g/kg. The toxic dose for oral administration of Euphorbia rapa is 9-15 g.
Overdose can cause poisoning. Early symptoms include congestion and swelling of the throat, severe vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, blood in the vomit, palpitations, and a drop in blood pressure. In severe cases, dehydration, dizziness, convulsions, coma, dilated pupils, and ultimately death from respiratory paralysis can occur.
Chen Xia said that he didn't want to cause "killing sin", but as an uneducated man, when he prepared these Chinese medicinal materials in China, he didn't care about the harm of exceeding the dosage.
With his personality, he would rather give more than too little and have no effect.
Therefore, the amount of "Euphorbia" is absolutely sufficient, and he is sincere. No matter whether you die or live after eating it, he pours it into the medicine storage tank with his eyes closed. It would be strange if nothing goes wrong.
As soon as the report of the Japanese Food and Drug Administration was released, public opinion was in an uproar.
Dongchuanwu's behavior is already deceiving consumers because you do not label the ingredients of the medicine. This is a blatant crime.
When Dongchuan Jianren received this report, he was shocked.
But he no longer had time to investigate on his own, as the Metropolitan Police Department had already formally summoned him and locked him up.
Dongchuan Jianren was of course not convinced and kept crying out for justice. He said that his company was a century-old pharmaceutical company and that it had very strict control over product quality, otherwise it would not have been able to become the world's number one.
The police took out a number of test reports and spread them out in front of him.
Dongchuan Jianren's hands were shaking as he looked through them one by one and found that without exception, all the Chinese herbal medicines produced recently had three additional ingredients.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible. We've been producing these medicines for a long time. We always add traditional Chinese medicines strictly according to the dosage and quantity of the secret recipe. We've never made a mistake. How could there be three extra ingredients this time?"
The police shrugged:
"We should be the ones asking this question: Where did you get these three Chinese medicinal herbs? Why did you add them illegally? Why aren't you disclosing them in the ingredient list?"
Dongchuan Jianren felt a headache: "No, this is not added by our company."
The police looked at him with disdain.
"According to our investigation and your production volume, the amount of these three ingredients in Chinese herbal medicine exceeds 10 tons. Mr. Dongchuan, please tell me, if it wasn't your company that added such a large amount, who could have added it?"
We have also conducted an internal investigation within your company. All workers are guaranteed to be supervised by a dedicated person from the selection of medicinal materials to production and delivery. Outsiders are absolutely not allowed to interfere. Don't tell me that this is a worker framing you?"
Dongchuan Jianren suddenly thought of something:
"No, this was definitely done by the Koreans. Do you remember the theft last month? It coincides with the date of drug production."
Several police officers at the scene burst out laughing:
"Mr. Dongchuan, you said a few Korean robbers came to steal your vault, but they were carrying over 10 tons of medicinal herbs. Is that possible? Not to mention that it's difficult to transport such a heavy amount of medicinal herbs, how could your security guards not have noticed anything that night?"
Dongchuan Jianren was speechless for a moment.
Yes, more than 10 tons of Chinese medicinal materials are not only heavy in weight, but also larger in volume. They can only be transported by a large truck, which will easily alert the enemy. If they come to steal the vault, they must be traveling light. Why would they bring so many things?
There is also a suspicious point in the theft case. So many precious medicinal materials and so many boxes containing secret recipes cannot be taken away by a few people. Even if trucks are used, it will take several trucks to transport them away.
Dongchuan Jianren's brain was about to explode. He couldn't figure out every doubt no matter how hard he tried.
Now, the "diarrhea incident" has turned into a confusing lawsuit. Dongchuanya said that he did not add it, but he had no evidence to prove his innocence.
The police only care about the evidence. Anyway, unknown ingredients were found in your medicine, and the entire process of drug production is closed-loop, so outsiders cannot be involved. Therefore, it is determined that there is an internal problem in Dongchuan House.
The Japanese people don’t care whether you are wronged or not. Anyway, if they have so many adverse reactions after taking your medicine, it is your company’s responsibility.
In the end, Dongchuanwu Kampo Medicine Company was asked to close down immediately and wait for processing.
Do you think it's over once you close the door?
In developed countries, it would be strange if consumers would let go of such a once-in-a-century opportunity.
Consumers who bought Tokawaya's Chinese herbal medicines, especially those who experienced adverse reactions, filed a collective lawsuit.
The laws abroad are so strict. Unlike some countries, where the maximum penalty for pharmaceutical companies is a fine of perhaps 500,000 yuan, consumers wanting compensation? That's a pipe dream.
It's different in Japan if there are product quality problems. If consumers win the lawsuit and have a medical certificate from the hospital, the compensation for each consumer can be millions or tens of millions of yen.
The total number of domestic and foreign consumers currently exceeds 8,000, and will definitely exceed 10,000 in the future.
Not to mention that the government will punish your Dongchuanwu company, even if you compensate these consumers, you will be finished.
Yes, the penalties for food and drug use abroad are to fine you until you go bankrupt, with no mercy at all.
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