When Li Shi'an, the world's top doctor of neuroscience, returned to China to treat his grandfather who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, what he received was not a cutting-edge treatment plan, but a fragment of "Compendium of Materia Medica" filled with secret notes and a last word: "The answer is not somewhere on the back page, but how you 'rewrite' this book from scratch."
From then on, he embarked on a thrilling cross-border path of verification. On one side is the ancient first aid method of "rain as guide and well as matchmaker" in the community clinic, and on the other side is the sophisticated instrument in the laboratory that decodes the "heart and brain signals" of Salvia miltiorrhiza. Just when he thought this was just an inheritance from the benevolence of doctors, a mysterious ore containing a code of cobalt and nickel dragged him into a fog that spanned ancient and modern times: What is the connection between his grandfather's illness and the experiment on mineral medicine? What kind of shocking mineral smuggling hidden behind the covetousness of multinational drug dealers?
From water to gold and stone, from vegetation to animals. Every underestimated herbal medicine may be the key to solving modern diseases; every practice of traditional prescriptions becomes a peak dialogue with modern medicine. This is a gamble about life, a suspenseful decipherment of millennium wisdom, and a passionate journey for doctors to overcome prejudice and pursue the truth.
When the final mystery is revealed, he will finally understand: Redefining Materia Medica is not only a pharmacopoeia, but also a bridge of medical knowledge; after thousands of years of verification, he is seeking not only a curative effect, but also another answer to life.
Purpose: To rekindle the inheritance of herbal medicine in a scientific spirit and to prove the bright path of thousand-year medical practice