Zhang Zheng continued: "You are right, the development process of Western medicine is so complicated. The famous western medicine aspirin took 45 years from development to marketing; Penicillin, the most famous and effective antibiotic, took 15 years from development to production......"

"I said Xiao Zheng, why did it take so long?" Mayor Guo asked.

"The main consideration is the safety of the drug, because this is a drug for human use, and you have to be very careful. Therefore, in general, a new drug needs to be tested in the laboratory and in animals for 3 to 5 years before it is clinical; When entering the clinical trial, the first phase requires 20-80 healthy volunteers for clinical verification for about 1 year; The second phase requires 100-300 sick volunteers, and the clinical verification takes about 2 years; Phase III requires 1000-3000 sick volunteers, and clinical validation is left for 3 years; In addition, it takes about 2-5 years for the Food and Drug Administration to approve it, so it takes about 10-12 years for a real new drug to be developed, and it takes hundreds of millions or billions of dollars in R&D funds. ”

"Wow! People regard safety as the first priority, which is the responsibility of pharmaceutical companies and relevant departments, and this approach is worth learning from. The two leaders, Pan and Guo, said in unison.

"Looking at our country, especially traditional Chinese medicine, there are almost no new drugs, most of them are found from the pile of old papers, and they can be put into production without any clinical experimental verification. As for whether there is an effect, whether there are toxic side effects, no one asks, and no one cares. ”

"Alas, Xiao Zheng is right, this is what it looks like now. Our own medicines are almost always so-called ancient prescriptions, and major pharmaceutical companies have spared no effort to use this 'ancient' or 'old' word as a selling point. This is a bit sad for a country that prides itself on a 5,000-year-old civilization. Pan Tianxin said.

"Drugs are related to human health and life, from the whole process of drug research and development, clinical trials to marketing, the effectiveness and safety of Western medicines, after strict animal testing and clinical verification, seems to be relatively safe and reliable." Mayor Guo said.

"I think so, but the impression of Chinese medicine is too unreliable. I once read the famous "Compendium of Materia Medica", most of which was full of a large number of contents such as animal feces, dand, earwax, nails, menstrual blood, hair, human flesh, saliva, sperm. Liquid, filial son's clothes and hats, widow's clothes, bedside ashes and other things into the medicine prescription is really disgusting and ignorant...... ”

"Secretary Pan, stop it quickly, if you keep talking, I'm about to throw up." Guo Dengke said.

In fact, the ancients were ignorant, which was understandable, because science was not developed at that time, and people's level of understanding had certain limitations, and it was normal to do some ridiculous things. Now that science, especially medicine, has been very developed, we should use scientific methods and standards to re-examine and standardize these things that have been handed down from ancient times, remove the dross, take the essence of them, and let these ancient things glow with new brilliance. Otherwise, if you cling to the tradition, the result will be decline. Zhang Zheng said.

Xiao Zheng said very reasonably, the times are developing, science is advancing, traditional Chinese medicine should also keep pace with the times, in pharmacological research, clinical verification, and standardization and other aspects of hard work. Otherwise, it will be difficult for traditional medicine to compete with modern medicine, and for the development of Chinese medicine, the relevant state departments should solve this problem as soon as possible. Pan Tianxin said.

"Just as Secretary Pan said, the state has discovered this problem, and the relevant departments have taken decisive action to solve this problem. What people did not expect is that the measures taken by the relevant departments are contrary to science, and they clearly stipulate that traditional Chinese medicine pharmaceutical companies are allowed not to indicate the toxic side effects and adverse reactions of drugs in the drug instructions, which is really a bit unscrupulous. ”

"Is it any wonder that many traditional Chinese medicine pharmaceutical companies have marked the two columns of 'adverse reactions' and 'contraindications' as 'not yet clear' in their drug instructions, which was originally allowed by the state?"

"That's not all, the state even clearly stipulates that traditional Chinese medicine pharmaceutical companies do not need to indicate ingredients in some drug instructions, in the name of protecting domestic famous Chinese medicine and formulas, which is really a big joke in the world. Look at other people's Western medicines, ingredients, characteristics, effects, indications, adverse reactions, contraindications, drug interactions, pharmacological effects, etc., the labels are clear, don't people pay attention to the protection of intellectual property rights? ”

"When it comes to intellectual property rights, I want to ask Xiao Zheng a question, how do people protect Western medicine?" Guo Dengke asked.

Zhang Zheng said: "The West uses patent protection to protect its own interests. In other words, once someone applies for a patent for their invention, no one is allowed to use it without consent, and once it infringes on the patent right of others, the infringer will have to pay a heavy price. ”