Merchant and doctor

Chapter 1847 A Strange Illness Requires First Attempts at Treatment

The elderly village doctor surnamed Mi unwittingly became the chief referee in the competition of skills.

Ms. Xu became the event liaison.

After many rounds of competition in the technology of preparing traditional Chinese medicine, Bian Mu won more than he lost. Gradually, Bian Mu realized that Huang Boxi was indeed on the verge of bankruptcy. If he continued to be complacent, his proud "customized traditional Chinese medicine small business" would definitely go bankrupt in less than three years. If he wanted to earn more money for the Huang family in the future, he could only take on a few small orders for health products that were somewhere between medicines and health supplements.

If it really comes to that, Huang Boxi will no longer exist in the local traditional Chinese medicine preparation industry.

The Huang family's long-standing brand has been completely ruined!
Huang Boxi was starting to panic.

Without revealing a word, Bian Mu continued his technical discussions with Huang Boxi in the laboratory of the Little White Building... However, considering Huang Boxi's advanced age and worried that the old man might not be able to accept the defeat and something unexpected might happen, Bian Mu privately called the pharmacist Lao Pei and asked him to visit Huang Boxi, have a drink, and chat from time to time.

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That evening, around 10 p.m., all the technical integration tests were completed. Thankfully, Huang Boxi's three core technologies, which he had painstakingly developed over many years, withstood the test of time. At the very least, they withstood the "high-pressure test" of the entirely new technology represented by Bian Mu. They are indeed effective and irreplaceable!
The other unique skills that Huang Boxi was so proud of were indeed outdated.

Bian Muxin immediately felt much more relaxed.

"The old man has always been very proud! If he had suffered a complete defeat in this competition... and suddenly couldn't accept it, what if he had a stroke or heart attack? That would have been terrible! Well, the old man is still quite capable after all, and managed to preserve his last bit of dignity..." Thinking of this, Bian Mu was genuinely happy for Uncle Huang for a long time.

The Yangtze River's waves push the previous waves forward, and the previous waves are very likely to be swept away and killed on the beach by the surging waves. In a sense, technological iteration is also a life-or-death struggle. Bian Mu has always been a peaceful person. He prefers a smooth change, a smooth elimination, and a smooth transition...

I slowly walked to the window, and gazed into the distance. The starry sky was colorful, and the night was boundless.

Huang Boxi is gradually bidding farewell to the field of traditional Chinese medicine preparation, Cen Songxue's era has come to an end, and no matter how capable Nie Yixiong is, Huamei's curtain call has already begun...

Traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacology are gradually ushering in a new era, and no one can stop it!
Bian Mu was fortunate enough to stand at the forefront of the times, and his heart was filled with mixed feelings, including a little excitement...

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With the patient companionship of the village doctor surnamed Mi and the herb farmer Lao Pei, Huang Boxi finally accepted reality peacefully, and the darkness in his heart was gently swept away, leaving only a slight ripple.

Huang Boxi was quite magnanimous. Afterwards, he wrote down the three private techniques that Bian Mu highly recognized and formally submitted them for a personal technology patent application. With Qi Yuewei's help, the relevant patent certification was quickly approved.

After obtaining the patent, Huang Boxi signed multi-party cooperation agreements with Bian Mu's personal studio, "Hongyang" Pharmaceutical Company, "Yiyoukang" Medical Group, and others, using technology as equity investment. Having reached this point, Huang Boxi gradually gained a deeper understanding and became less concerned about how much money he could ultimately make. With Assistant Zhang leading the way, Bian Mu, together with "Hongyang" Pharmaceutical Company and several other related companies, as well as the Dong sisters' personal studio, signed relevant cooperation agreements. With a focus on both medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, the opening of a traditional Chinese medicine clinic preceded the trial production of traditional Chinese medicine. Bian Mu's personal career quietly entered a new era!
My parents and younger sister Bian Yue were completely unaware of all this.

Bian Mu has become more and more mature, and he doesn't want to disturb his family with some so-called important matters.

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That noon, without even having lunch, Bian Mu used her lunch break to call Lu Yisi, and the two agreed to go to the Provincial Children's Hospital together.

Lu Yisi recently got a new car, an extended SUV, which exudes a domineering presence and offers an extremely wide field of vision when sitting in it.

Bian Mu still chose to sit in the right-hand seat in the back row.

"Having wasted so much time, aren't you worried that the boy's condition will worsen?" Lu Yisi said with a smile as he drove.

“I’ve studied those medical cases you sent many times. The fundamental differences between our traditional Chinese medicine practice and your school are quite significant, as you’ve probably heard. A child under 12 years old suffering from a stroke must have some unusual aspects. Traditional Chinese medicine has a special practice: for miscellaneous diseases, it’s important to nurture and care for the child. In layman’s terms, it means that he’s only a little over 7 years old, four or five years away from the age of 12! And his family is well-off; they can’t just rely on you and me to wait for his recovery. Let him rest first! Especially let the special conflicts within his family develop further. Otherwise, relying on guesswork will only be irresponsible to the child.” Bian Mu explained with a smile.

"Is that even possible?! That's amazing! I've really learned a lot from you, but... judging from the scan, some of the tiny arterial subbranchs in the child's brain have already died. Aren't you worried that the condition will worsen?! I mean, that the problematic arterial vascular system will further die, and the obstruction area will further expand?!"

"No way!" Bian Mu replied calmly without the slightest hesitation.

"Tell me the reason?"

“That child has been overnourished since childhood. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, we usually call it ‘abnormal overload of ancestral qi’. During the time I was busy with the preparation of traditional Chinese medicine, the child never left the hospital. The level of a provincial-level tertiary specialist hospital is there. All kinds of treatments have never stopped. For example, regular treatment in the hyperbaric oxygen chamber. It’s impossible for the condition to develop so quickly.”

"That's true, but... even if you're a miracle doctor, aren't you worried at all about calmly going about your personal affairs? Are you really sure you can control all the unknown variables and details? To be honest, I really don't believe it!"

"As the saying goes, every profession has its own secrets! The diagnostic and treatment cycles in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) differ quite a bit from those in Western medicine. As the two medical systems advance together, similar cycles are not converging; on the contrary, the differences in related cycles are widening year by year. For example, what time period is considered the optimal starting point for medical intervention? Is it necessary to stop medication and treatment for a period of rest in the middle? How long does the overall treatment cycle generally last? The treatment systems we have built are quite different in terms of calculating the time cycle. It's not that I'm selfish, thinking only of making money and not caring about the patients' lives. It's really not like that. Besides, I've always admired the comprehensive strength of provincial specialized hospitals and have almost never doubted them in the slightest. My outpatient visit is at most just icing on the cake."

"Hahaha... As humble as ever! No wonder the older generation has such polarized opinions about you!"

Hearing this, Bian Mu smiled slightly, but did not continue the conversation with Lu Yisi to delve deeper into that deeper meaning.