"Good medicine is not a good commodity."
A cicada spends ten years dormant and grows, then sings and dies in one summer.
Chilling syndrome is caused by long-term exposure to excessive PFAS (polyfluoroalkyl substances and perfluoroalkyl substances) and their unstable by-products, which induces liver disease and forms chilling syndrome lesions.
Chilling Syndrome, as its name suggests, has an incubation period of up to ten years. Once it worsens, life begins to count down and it is a terminal disease.
For a long time, the only drug on the market was polyene phosphatidyl bicyclol esters - commonly known as Anchan Tablets. But even if you keep eating, you can only delay death to the greatest extent and cannot cure it.
Zheng Xiao inherited his mother's business, and his research group had been conducting targeted research on chilling syndrome since he was an undergraduate. However, there was no progress during the bottleneck period. Finally, Zheng Xiao from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy contacted Fu Li, a senior student in Traditional Chinese Medicine who had already studied for a Ph. D.
The young and proud Zheng Xiao, and the calm and indifferent Fu Li.
Idealism versus realism.
The latter just flipped through their proposal report and said lightly: "I personally am not optimistic about this project."
Zheng Xiao asked him why.
Fu Li is the son of a businessman and sees clearly: "Good medicine is not a good commodity."
Drugs that cannot cure diseases require people to take them for a lifetime, which is a long-term benefit chain. And how could the vested interests, the pharmaceutical companies and consortium behind it, allow this chain to be broken?
Good medicines are shelved on the shelf, while bad medicines make a lot of money.
This is reality, and ordinary people are powerless to contend with it.
By you?
Let's change the subject, Fu Li said.
Zheng Xiao was so angry that he dropped his experimental notebook on the table.
"I'm a doctor, not a businessman."
[The full text has been deposited/2026.9.23-11.7 Stable daily update/average chapter 5,000]
Purpose: To pay tribute to ancient and modern scientific researchers.
