Chinese Medicine: Starting with Daily Intelligence-Chapter 106: Just Wait to Collect the Money
"Doctor Li, you’re truly amazing."
Dean Sun from the District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine was personally hosting Li Xu.
Guo Yu, Gao Jiandong, and a group of department heads were in attendance.
At the reception, Dean Sun praised Li Xu endlessly.
Guo Yu and the others chimed in with their agreement.
Gao Jiandong looked as if he’d swallowed a fly; he was extremely uncomfortable.
However, he couldn’t say a word.
Before everyone’s eyes, Li Xu had brought a mentally unstable patient back to lucidity.
There were no tricks involved.
Although the patient wouldn’t live much longer after regaining consciousness...
...that was because the patient’s body itself had already broken down.
It was a condition beyond the help of medicine.
"Dean, you’re too kind. As a consultant, this is just what I should do."
Li Xu replied.
"Doctor Li, what medicine did you give the patient?" 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚
an attending physician asked curiously.
Li Xu didn’t explain in detail. "It was a type of sedative pill."
After the reception,
Li Xu returned to his clinic.
Song Sisi had a proud look on her face. "Hmph, let’s see who dares to look down on you now."
Li Xu just smiled and shook his head.
Just then, his phone rang.
It was Gu Xiaoya.
"Doctor Li, the eye drop patent application was approved."
"That was fast! Thank you. I’ll treat you to a meal sometime to thank you."
"And when is ’sometime’?"
"Uh... Are you free tonight?"
"Haha, I’m just joking with you."
Gu Xiaoya had recovered well after her divorce and was even in the mood to joke around. "The effect of your eye drops is just too good. I think you should start production as soon as possible."
"I have limited raw materials. I can only produce a few dozen kilograms in total."
"That’s still a lot. The small bottles of eye drops on the market are only 5ml. If you produce fifty jin, that’s enough for about 5,000 bottles. You can test the market this year to lay the groundwork, then start large-scale production next year," Gu Xiaoya suggested.
"Well..."
Li Xu thought about it. ’She has a point.’
’There’s no need to wait until next year to start production.’
’I can produce some this year and test the market’s reaction.’
"Okay, that works," Li Xu said. He then asked, "Dr. Gu, do you have any eye medicine companies you’d recommend?"
Li Xu was planning to partner with a company.
He could brew a bottle or two himself.
But mass production required an assembly line.
Moreover, there was the matter of sales.
Even with Song Sisi’s help, the two of them wouldn’t be able to handle it all.
Gu Xiaoya laughed. "You don’t need to worry about that. Your eye drops are so good, relevant companies will be contacting you on their own soon enough."
"Huh? Why?" Li Xu didn’t understand.
Gu Xiaoya explained, "Some of these companies have people who specifically monitor new patents. They’ll evaluate it immediately. Once they see how miraculous your eye drops are, they will definitely contact you."
"Oh."
Li Xu understood.
"Your eye drops don’t have a name yet. What do you plan to call them when they come looking for you?" Gu Xiaoya asked.
"Uh... I’m not good at naming things. Do you have any suggestions?"
"Hmm, the main ingredient in these eye drops is green foxtail grass... How about Mao Duddu Eye Drops?" Gu Xiaoya said with a smile. "It captures the fluffy image of the grass and also appeals to the youth market."
"That sounds good. Let’s call it Mao Duddu Eye Drops."
...
After hanging up the phone,
Song Sisi leaned in. "Boss, you invented a type of eye drops? Can I try them?"
"Sure."
Li Xu took out a small glass vial, poured a little out, and handed it to Song Sisi. "They work very well, but you can’t rely on them. You still need to be mindful of your eye usage."
Song Sisi took the small glass vial and curiously swirled the clear liquid inside.
She hadn’t slept well in the mountains last night, and her eyes were still a bit uncomfortable. It was the perfect chance to test the effects.
’Will this really work?’ she wondered, skeptically applying two drops into her eyes.
At first, she only felt a cool sensation in her eyes, so soothing it made her blink involuntarily.
But immediately after, a wonderful feeling spread from her eyeballs—like parched earth suddenly being nourished by a clear spring, washing away all fatigue.
"Oh my god!" Song Sisi’s eyes shot open. "Boss! This is incredible!"
She rushed to a mirror and found that her eyes were no longer bloodshot. Instead, they were clear and bright, and even her dark circles had faded considerably.
What shocked her even more was that her previously somewhat blurry vision had become exceptionally clear, as if she were wearing a pair of contact lenses.
"This... this is practically magic!" Song Sisi turned to Li Xu excitedly. "Boss, are you sure this is just made from green foxtail grass?"
Li Xu nodded with a smile. "The patent has already been approved. How could it be fake? Once we start mass production, we just have to wait for the money to roll in."
Song Sisi was already fantasizing about the future. "Eye drops this good will definitely be a bestseller... Oh my god! Boss, you’re going to be rich!"
Li Xu laughed. "Keep up the good work, and I’ll give you a raise."
...
「Meanwhile」
In an office at Baixing Eye Medicine Group, patent monitor Zhang Pengfei was refreshing the National Patent Office website, just as he did every day.
Suddenly, a newly approved patent caught his eye:
An Eye Drop Based on Green Foxtail Grass Extract and Its Preparation Method
’Green foxtail grass?’ Zhang Pengfei frowned. ’You can make eye drops out of this?’
But as he read the patent description carefully, his eyes grew wider and wider:
"This product can relieve eye fatigue within 30 seconds. Long-term use can improve pseudomyopia, has a significant therapeutic effect on dry eye syndrome, and has no side effects..."
’These effects are too exaggerated, aren’t they?’ Zhang Pengfei muttered to himself.
As a seasoned industry professional, he knew all too well that there was no eye drop on the market that was both so powerful and so safe.
He immediately printed out the patent information and rushed straight to the R&D department.
Liu Ming, the R&D director for Baixing Eye Medicine, was equally shocked after reading the patent documents. "If this data is real, we can pull our ’Bright Eye Drops’ right off the shelves."
"Should we... try it out?" Zhang Pengfei suggested. "The patent includes the detailed formula and process."
Liu Ming made a snap decision. "Prepare a batch according to the patent’s method immediately!"
The R&D team sprang into action.
They collected fresh, whole green foxtail grass plants, used a special process to extract the active ingredients, added the several excipients mentioned in the patent, and subjected the mixture to heat treatment at a specific temperature.
Three hours later, the first batch of imitation product was ready.
"Find some volunteers to test it," Liu Ming ordered.
The first test subject spent long hours in front of a computer and suffered from severe dry eyes.
After applying the imitation eye drops, he blinked. "Hmm... it’s a little cool, about the same as our ’Bright’ drops."
Liu Ming frowned. "That’s it? Didn’t the patent say it takes effect in 30 seconds?"
The second test subject had mild myopia.
His feedback was similar: "My eyes feel a little more comfortable, but I don’t feel like my vision has improved."
They found a few more test subjects.
Without exception,
the reported effects were all mediocre.
It wasn’t even as good as Baixing Eye Medicine’s own Bright Eye Drops.
"The patent is an exaggeration."
Liu Ming shook his head.
Although a patent application is a very serious and rigorous matter,
there are exceptions to every rule.
In his opinion, the claims for these Mao Duddu Eye Drops were grossly exaggerated.
"It’s useless. Don’t worry about it."
At the same time,
other ophthalmic companies came to a similar conclusion—the effects of Mao Duddu Eye Drops were ordinary and not worth investing in.
