Chapter 314 - 223: The Value of a New Drug to Enter the Forbes Rich List

Chapter 314: Chapter 223: The Value of a New Drug to Enter the Forbes Rich List

After the three of them sat down, they began to talk at length.

"Uncle, I arranged this meeting today to help Wu Ting learn more about the use of traditional formulas containing Locust Tree Ear..."

Lou Musaang gave Zhao Jun a brief introduction before getting straight to the point.

She then showed him the formulas she had transcribed.

Wu Ting examined them closely. It was their first time learning about this ingredient, Locust Tree Ear.

"Locust Tree Ear is clearly documented in the Qian Jin Fang, Tang Materia Medica, and Shen Huifang... The Tang Materia Medica states: ’Ear, the fungus of the locust tree. One should harvest those as firm as mulberry ear. When pan-fried, it neutralizes scorpion venom. This product is one of the five wood ears of This Scripture...’"

Seeing the materials from the ancient texts that Lou Musaang had specially transcribed and organized for them, Wu Ting was quite moved.

After giving a general introduction to the medicinal ingredient, Lou Musaang shared the relevant formulas from a rare manuscript passed down in her family:

"...To treat wind-toxin of the large intestine, for unrelenting lower body bleeding: two liang of Locust Tree Ear (burned to ash), one liang of dried lacquer (pounded and stir-fried until it smokes). Pound the ingredients into a fine powder. Before each meal, take one qian mixed with warm wine..."

"...Take an unspecified amount of Locust Tree Ear, burn to ash, and grind into a fine powder. For each dose, take two qian-spoons mixed with warm wine before meals..."

"...For consumptive disease with jaundiced emaciation, which relapses after temporary remission and worsens with slight exertion: one liang each of Locust Tree Ear (stir-fried until yellow) and red halloysite. Grind to a powder. Take two qian with hot wine before meals. Sanghuang may also be used..."

After sharing a few representative formulas, Lou Musaang looked at Wu Ting.

"Wu Ting, that’s everything I know about traditional formulas involving Locust Tree Ear. I think you’re on the right track. This might really help you make a breakthrough with Locust Tree Ear extracts..."

After Lou Musaang finished speaking,

Zhao Jun added to the discussion:

"Musaang, Wu Ting, when it comes to research on Locust Tree Ear, our Zhao Family is actually quite knowledgeable."

"In fact, in the field of combination therapy for mid- to late-stage liver cancer, the Zhao Family has been continuously experimenting with Locust Tree Ear."

"However, we’ve only ever used it as a supplementary treatment in the form of traditional medicinal decoctions. That’s still a far cry from what you want to do—extracting relevant compounds to synthesize an entirely new patent medicine. At least, as far as I know, there’s no established theory for the mechanism by which Locust Tree Ear works..."

"Speaking purely from the perspective of National Medicine, primary liver cancer is a syndrome of ’root deficiency and branch excess.’ It falls into categories like ’Zheng Jia’ and ’Gan Ji.’ The ’root’ of the illness is a deficiency of qi and blood in the Zang-fu organs, while the ’branch’ is the knotting of qi, blood, dampness, heat, stasis, and toxins. The fundamental pathogenesis in the patient is the accumulation of toxins in the liver, causing it to lose its ability to flow and discharge freely."

"The main clinical manifestations in patients are: painful swelling and hardness in the right hypochondrium, emaciation, loss of appetite, fatigue, and sometimes jaundice or even coma..."

"Locust Tree Ear Soup is effective at bolstering the body’s constitution and strengthening its foundation, as well as invigorating blood circulation to dissolve masses... Through my many years of clinical trials, it has indeed proven effective in lowering patients’ serum tumor markers and cytokine levels, inhibiting tumor cell proliferation, and improving immune function..."

"However, this is all based on its use as a supplementary medicine. As I said, there’s no clear theoretical mechanism, and we’re nowhere near the point of being able to refine a new drug from it."

This time, Wu Ting had truly come to the right person.

If it had been an ordinary doctor, they would have likely used this as a starting point for a research project long ago.

But Zhao Jun was a very Zen-like person; he didn’t strive for fame or profit, preferring to let things happen as they may. Only those patients who fate brought under his care would receive his family’s ancestral Locust Tree Ear Soup as a supplementary treatment—and the results were indeed effective.

Lou Musaang hadn’t expected Zhao Jun’s research into Locust Tree Ear Soup to be so advanced.

If this had been a few years earlier, she would have started researching the extracts of Locust Tree Ear Soup herself to see if they could be integrated with the Banzhe Project.

But now, with Jin Pharmaceutical Group under immense pressure and Pfizer Group watching like a hungry tiger, there was only one path forward.

All she could do was entrust the research on Locust Tree Ear Soup to Wu Ting to carry on.

The three chatted for a while longer until Lou Musaang received a call from Jia Jun, at which point she prepared to return to Xiao City.

[Ding! Congratulations, Host, for your discussion on Locust Tree Ear formulas with the heirs of two traditional medicine families. You have obtained an entry from Director Zhao Jun: Insights on Locust Tree Ear Granules (Purple). The Locust Tree Ear Fungus is a dried mycelium obtained by cultivating it on a fermentation substrate, such as corncobs and wheat bran, under specific conditions. It is effective at bolstering the body’s constitution and strengthening its foundation, as well as invigorating blood circulation and dissolving masses. It can effectively alleviate symptoms like pain in the hepatic region, abdominal distension, and fatigue in patients with mid- to late-stage liver cancer.]

[Would you like to synthesize the following entries? Pharmaceutical Insights on Yangzheng Xiujie Pill (Purple) + Pharmaceutical Insights on the New Compound Medicine for Banzhe (Purple) + Insights on Locust Tree Ear Granules (Purple) = Perfect New Medicine "Fengmu Tiada" (Black). A completely new substance, Fengmu Tiada, is formed from the combination of three patent medicines! When used in conjunction with transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, it can completely cure stage III primary liver cancer caused by hepatitis B.]

[Note: The active ingredient of Fengmu Tiada is a special polysaccharide-protein complex. Its mechanism for assisting radiotherapy and chemotherapy in killing tumor cells involves activating macrophages to enhance their phagocytic function, while also boosting the immune activity of T-lymphocytes to improve their ability to kill tumor cells.]

[Note: This polysaccharide-protein complex can directly inhibit the proliferative activity of tumor cells, which in turn inhibits their synthesis of pro-angiogenic substances. It can therefore effectively suppress tumor proliferation and metastasis, controlling the progression of the disease in patients with mid- to late-stage liver cancer.]

[Note: The new medicine, Fengmu Tiada, possesses staggering market value. It is a miracle drug capable of generating over a hundred billion in sustained revenue for the Host! Once this new medicine is truly launched, it will be enough to land the Host on the Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest people!]