Yang called his teacher at Stanford, Carolyn Ska.

Carolynska was pleasantly surprised and asked, "Sky, what's the matter?"

"Teacher, I really have something to do with you this time, I have developed a new drug here, and I want to ask about the relevant FDA certification!" Yang Xiaotian said.

"Oh, new medicine, you're amazing, I knew you were the best of my students!, but this kind of thing shouldn't be done by researchers, should it?" Karolynska first praised Yang Xiaotian, and then said.

Her implication is that researchers only need to develop drugs, and there should be special administrative staff to do things like registration and FDA.

Yang Xiaotian said with a little embarrassment: "Teacher, in fact, this medicine was developed by myself!"

"Oh my God!" Karolinska exclaimed, "but personally, the price of running the FDA is too high! If nothing else, you have to find thousands of people to do clinical tests in the third phase of clinical trials, which is a big expense!"

"Yes, I know, and I'm still a Chinese patent medicine, it seems to be more difficult!" Yang Xiaotian said.

What he said was difficult, in fact, was the difficulty of clinical testing.

According to the requirements of Western medicine, each single ingredient in the drug needs 600 people to do the third phase of the clinical trial.

Of these, 300 were on medicine, and the other 300 were in the control group without medicine.

Western medicine is a chemical agent, so every single ingredient can be tested well.

But Chinese medicine is a finished product.

Every finished product contains many individual ingredients.

For example, ginseng has 37 kinds of saponins, each of which is a single ingredient, which requires more than 20,000 people, in addition to polysaccharides and proteins, which are simply counted as ten kinds each, and more than 10,000 people.

You can't just add ginseng to that important thing, right?

Add some more Poria cocos.

There are more than 20 kinds of polysaccharides in Poria cocos, more than 10,000 people, more than 40 kinds of terpenes, more than 20,000 people, and more than 10 kinds of sterols.

Let's follow this clinical trial method to conduct a clinical trial on a Chinese medicine.

Take the most classic Sijunzi soup, which only has four flavors, to do clinical trials, then it also needs three or four hundred thousand clinical trials and corresponding funds to support.

It is precisely because of this that many side effects of Chinese patent medicines are written as "not yet clear", which is not irresponsible, but really can't be helped.

However, this does not mean that traditional Chinese medicine is shoddy, and China's management methods for traditional Chinese medicine alone include such as "Good Manufacturing Practice for Chinese Herbal Medicine", "Good Manufacturing Practice for Drugs", "Good Management Practice for Non-clinical Research of Drugs", "Good Management Practice for Pharmaceutical Operations", "Chinese Pharmacopoeia", and "Ministerial Drug Standards...... and a series of more than a dozen norms and regulations.

The production and delivery of any traditional Chinese medicine must comply with these requirements.

At the end of the day, Chinese medicine and Western medicine are not the same thing.

Western medicine is directly chemically synthesized as a drug, and every single molecule is definite and traceable.

Traditional Chinese medicine is processed from ready-made products (such as ginseng, angelica, etc.), and each ready-made product has many single molecules in it.

And even if you have a lot of perseverance and so much money, you can find more than 400,000 people to do clinical trials.

Not really.

Because of the ready-made products, ginseng, these, it is grown.

Good this year, bad next year.

Things are changing, too.

Do we have to organize more than 400,000 people to do clinical trials every year?

So it's not the same thing at all, you have to let Chinese medicine follow the methods of Western medicine to standardize, then how to go?

It's like a person who practices sanda and a person who practices boxing go to the ring, so how do you say to fight? Who uses whose rules?

To take a more extreme example, those boxing techniques that specialize in the lower three ways, such as flirting with yin legs, lying on the ground, etc., go to fight with boxers, according to whose rules?

However, after hearing that Yang Xiaotian was making traditional Chinese medicine, Carolynska laughed and said: "Sky, if you want to sell it in the United States, I don't want to sell Chinese patent medicine, it's the kind of medicine that is done, such as Si Mo soup or something, yes, I know, that diet is very good! But in the United States, you really can't sell it! But I build yì you, you can open a pharmacy!"

"Pharmacy?" Yang Xiaotian wondered, "Teacher, is the pharmacy useful?"

"Of course, you've been studying in the United States for so long, haven't you ever been to Chinatown? No, not to mention Chinatown, there are many Chinese medicine stores everywhere!" said Carolynska.

"Well, I really haven't paid much attention to it, teacher, can you elaborate on it?" asked Yang Xiaotian.

"That's right!" explains Carolynska, "It's hard to get FDA approved for TCM, but it can be sold as a video or nutritional supplement, and the FDA allows it!"

"So, teacher, what do you mean, when health care products are sold?" Yang Xiaotian asked.

"No, no, that's another category, actually, food!" said Carolineska.

"Food?"

"Yes, it's an ingredient, to be exact! You sell Chinese medicine as an ingredient, not as a medicine, so there's no problem!" said Carolynska.

"Is this really possible?"

"Absolutely, everybody sells it like this! For example, I'm going to buy astragalus, I'm going to buy angelica! I just want to eat it, can you say that this plant can't be eaten?" Karolinska asked rhetorically.

"Uh......" Yang Xiaotian was speechless.

Carolynska said: "So, if you are in the United States, you can only sell traditional Chinese medicine, as long as you don't extract and concentrate the active ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine, or use it as an injection, it can't be regarded as medicine!

"Drugs for cerebral palsy!" Yang Xiaotian did not hide anything from his teacher.

"Oh?" said Carolynska with surprise in her voice, "How's it working?"

"I haven't found patients for testing yet, but we can know in animal experiments that the effect is still good!" Yang Xiaotian said with some pride.

"Ha, good job, when are you going to California, there are also some children with cerebral palsy in our affiliated hospital, very pitiful, if it really works, they don't care if it's medicine or witchcraft!" said Carolynska with a smile.

"Teacher, Chinese medicine is the wisdom of the sages, not witchcraft!" Yang Xiaotian emphasized.

"Haha, look, my good boy is angry!" Karolinska laughed, "but I still want you to make a trip!"

"Okay, I'll go over in the near future!" Yang Xiaotian nodded.

After hanging up the phone, Yang Xiaotian touched his chin and began to think, is it a good idea to go to the United States to open a pharmacy?

But if you just sell drugs for cerebral palsy, isn't it too little?

By the way, sell some Chinese medicine again?

Then it seems that we still need to find some Chinese medicine practitioners?

But these are not in a hurry, let's go to the United States first.

Before that, though, it's important to go to the fishing port first.

The main reason to go to the fishing port is to register a new company, although it has returned, but after all, it is still one country, two systems, and it is relatively convenient to register a new company there.

It's five hundred chapters before you know it...... Lament......