When he heard that he wanted to buy a secret recipe for 2,000 yuan, even Gu Wei was speechless. He thought that this old man was really stupid. How could he only ask for such a small amount?
But Old Man Gu had no idea that for Old Ji, the offer of 2,000 yuan was already a huge price to pay, so he even lowered the price to 1,500 yuan for fear of scaring the other party away.
When Chen Xia heard the price, he sighed in his heart. The farmers at that time were still simple.
Unlike in later generations, if a driver runs over a chicken on the side of the rural road, the farmer will dare to ask for tens of thousands of yuan and will not be allowed to leave unless he pays compensation.
Although Lao Jitou said 2,000 yuan, could Chen Xia afford such a small amount? If the recipe was successfully launched after research, who knows how people would curse him behind his back.
Chen Xia is not a saint, but she can't be a black-hearted person, right?
"Uncle Ji, how about this? You sell me all your prescriptions for external application and oral administration, and have someone write down your experience and insights in treating snake bites for me. Then I'll give you 20,000 yuan. How about that?"
"Two... twenty thousand yuan? Oh my god, this is too much. How can I bear to pay that?"
Old Ji was shocked when he heard the number. Fushun, Jilin is a typical remote mountainous area, and its economic development level cannot be compared with Zhijiang Province at all.
Apart from some ginseng farmers, how many people in the county are earning over 10,000 yuan?
Chen Xia's gift was worth two millionaires, how could Lao Jitou not be excited and feel guilty? In his eyes, how could a folk remedy be worth so much money?
If he really wanted to pass on the secret recipe, he would definitely find an apprentice from the same village. At most, he would eat some chicken, duck, fish and meat from other people's families, which would be worth one or two hundred yuan at most.
Gu Wei also smiled and said, "Old Jitou, my son-in-law said 20,000 yuan, so it's 20,000 yuan. You can keep it. You should also spruce up the house and buy some nice clothes for your daughter and wife."
After refusing several times, Lao Jitou happily agreed and planned to prepare all the drug samples and hand them over to Chen Xia in a few days.
On the way home, Gu Zhongguo and Gu Zhongjun finally asked the question in their hearts:
"Brother-in-law, is it worth it for you to spend 20,000 yuan on a folk remedy? You run a pharmaceutical factory and a hospital, and you're wasting money like this?"
Look, soldiers are so straightforward and they speak in a straight-laced way.
"Brother, how can this be called wasting money? You just saw that this folk remedy is more effective than my anti-snake venom serum. Luo Zi was rescued, so this folk remedy is a priceless treasure.
Think about it, most people in our country live in rural areas or mountains. There are so many patients bitten by venomous snakes every year, but with the current medical level, very few can survive.
Ten years ago, when I was still working at Yuezhou Hospital, I went to Qingtan Commune to provide free medical treatment and met a mountain villager who was bitten by a five-step snake. If I hadn't brought snake venom serum with me, there was a 90% chance that this strong young man would not have survived.
But think about it, antivenom is both too scarce and too expensive, making it simply unaffordable for farmers. If this farmer had this traditional remedy, even without antivenom, they could still get a high chance of being cured. Wouldn't that be a great deed?"
Gu Zhongguo was delighted when he heard this: "Okay, brother-in-law, you have a high level of ideological awareness. It turns out that you want to use it to cure diseases and save lives."
Chen Xia waved his hands quickly when he heard this:
"Of course we have to treat and save lives, but we also have to make money. Just imagine, by the time I have drugs to treat snake bites and a patent for antivenom, my Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceuticals can become the largest snake medicine manufacturer.
I also have two hospitals under my control. With these drugs, I can become a leading authority on snake venom treatment nationwide, and even worldwide. Don't underestimate this minor snake bite. If you treat it well, you'll definitely make a fortune."
If a monopoly, or an authoritative hospital, can achieve this, there will be no shortage of patients, and it will also have the power to set prices.
Not only can this bring fame and profit, but it can also treat and save lives. It really kills two birds with one stone and eats three birds with one stone.
Gu Wei walked in front and heard the conversation between his son and son-in-law. He asked curiously:
"Xiao Xia, are you interested in Chinese medicine? I remember you always saying that Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine are just shams and are designed to fool people. Aren't those stomach pills and ten kidney-tonifying wines of yours all labeled as Chinese medicine, but actually use Western medicine ingredients?"
"Hey, hey, hey, dad, if you say this, it will affect my glorious image."
The brothers Gu Zhongguo and Gu Zhongjun couldn't understand what their father and brother-in-law were talking about. Why did they talk about traditional Chinese medicine again?
As a doctor trained in Western medicine, Chen Xia has always had reservations about traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese herbal medicine. He would not say that he is against traditional Chinese medicine, but he would not promote it either.
Let’s not talk about whether traditional Chinese medicine is effective or not. Just looking at the current chaos surrounding traditional Chinese medicine makes people feel uneasy about taking Chinese herbal medicine.
Moreover, in order to make money, domestic manufacturers of traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese patent medicine have falsified too much clinical trial data, and many drug instructions are extremely non-standard.
The usage and dosage are all rough estimates. How much does an adult take to achieve therapeutic dosage? How much does a child take? These are generally unclear in traditional Chinese medicine.
At most, it can be roughly described as one pack or half a pack.
Even many Chinese medicines have no clear research on their side effects, contraindications, adverse reactions, precautions, pharmacological effects, etc., and are simply labeled "not yet clear."
It's still unclear, yet you dare to put it on the market? And dare to give it to patients?
Not only is the market for Chinese patent medicines chaotic, the market for Chinese herbal medicines is even more chaotic. No one cares whether your medicinal materials are authentic or not, and no one cares how many times a year you raise the price.
For example, if you are using the same herbal medicine, there is no uniform standard for the dosage. It all depends on the doctor's experience and rough estimate.
This is extremely undesirable. Too little dosage will have no effect, while excessive dosage will cause a series of toxic reactions. Every year, there are a large number of patients who suffer from "drug-induced hepatitis" and "nephritis" due to taking Chinese medicine.
Taking these medicines is not curing your illness, it's committing suicide.
Later, Chen Xia's change in understanding of traditional Chinese medicine came from the fact that Grandma Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for her research on artemisinin.
This shows that traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese herbal medicine have great potential as long as they are studied carefully and refined according to the inspection standards and processes of Western medicine.
Don’t say that Tu Youyou’s method of extracting artemisinin used Western medicine standards, so it cannot be called “Chinese medicine”.
Grandma Tu herself said that she looked through ancient Chinese medicine books and found a passage that Artemisia annua could treat miasma or malaria, and then she started researching it.
Chen Xia is now rich and has a certain reputation and status in the medical and health system. He wants to support traditional Chinese medicine and correct the wrong directions of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners to prevent them from going astray.
At the same time, he collected a wide range of famous and secret prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine, and then researched and produced them, replacing Japan as the world's largest producer and distributor of "Kampo medicines", a business worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
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