Chapter 314: Botanical Elixir

The gossip continued, and after Jessie Chou looked around inside, he followed Xiao Aite out, and the hard hat on his head was a little uncomfortable. He really didn't like the feeling of wearing a hard hat, he had worked on a construction site in his previous life, and every day he was exposed to dirt, cement, steel, dust, and the hot sun.

It was a terrible feeling, and he had had enough of it after experiencing it once, and he just hadn't grasped the feeling of winter. Now when he wears a hard hat, it reminds him of this memory, which makes him uncomfortable.

"Mr. Zhou, I will let them try to be as fast as possible, these people are not bad, at least they are willing to work overtime. It's not like my engineering team, which will leave at the end of the day. What a hassle! Seeing these people who were willing to work overtime, Xiao Aite couldn't help but complain to the people who had followed him before.

Jessie Zhou glanced at him: "I'm satisfied at this level, it seems that you don't know the awesomeness of our migrant workers in the Great Heavenly Empire." What is an extra few hours of work, two shifts a day, 24 hours a day. Don't do it too fast, I'm paying a lot cheaper than yours! ”

"If it weren't for Lao Tzu not being so dark, I would still need you rabble! Really! "Zhou Jiexi secretly thought in his heart that he had exploited the so-called capitalism badly enough in his previous life, and in this life he can finally try to exploit the people under these capitalist countries!" It feels good! ”

Jessie Chow followed back to the small greenhouse, and after the old ladies inside looked at it, they were all very satisfied. The next thing to do is to go to the storage greenhouse in the city and get the plants back. But before that, the old lady decided to plant some seeds first.

After walking around Jessie Chou's farm for a while, she found that the soil in the vegetable area and the orchard was very fertile, so she dug a lot from there, added some other organic fertilizer, and now it can be transported in for cultivation.

So after lunch in the afternoon, Jessie Chou asked Atwood to find someone to do this, as for how much to pay, then just go to the accountant to settle the bill. With his current net worth, he really doesn't have to do it himself, when the old lady got that thing back, he also asked Atwood to find someone to help, and people are not stupid, what to do by himself, what to do without being done by himself, this is a clear difference.

Speaking of which, when Jesse Zhou saw Atwood after coming back, he suddenly felt a little weird, this old man has been a little too attentive to his master recently. Is there still a boss like yourself in this eye! The old man was supervising the cowboys, carrying dirt in carts one by one.

And the people who were in it sorted out piece by piece. The planting field is multi-layered, because the height is sufficient, so it is not only good to plant a little underground, but also plant two layers on the top, and use the principle of optical refraction to ensure that they can get light to cooperate.

"This old guy seems to have a wife, is he interested in the master? No, the master looks quite young, but he is much older than Atwood, and this old man seems to be in his fifties now! ”

Jessie Chow saw that the master was also here, and he was not lazy, so he came over to supervise it. In fact, it is holding a piece of grass and teasing Saiya behind him. Sometimes I talk to Nikki about love. Nikki thought that she was very interested in the botanical potions that the old lady had said, which had not been recognized in the United States before.

The United States is a country of immigrants, with immigrants from all countries and ethnic groups, and their religious beliefs, socio-cultural backgrounds, and value orientations are extremely complex. However, the government and society have always been tolerant and non-interventionist, resulting in a unique pluralistic society.

Grossly disproportionate, the government and the medical community have been misguided by the rejection of botanical therapies. To put it bluntly, we just don't recognize your Chinese medicine, witch doctor, spiritual doctor and other titles and therapies, what we recognize are Western medicine.

Western medicine is the mainstream of medicine, and most states legislate that only Western medicine can be legally practiced, and all other therapies are illegal and no medical licenses are issued. Only in areas where there is a high concentration of ethnic minorities (e.g., California) are they granted special approval. This is the so-called adaptation to local conditions!

Moreover, the hospitals of the United States only provide Western medical services. The insurance company will only cover applicants who have been treated with Western medicine and used Western medicines. The cost of other treatments will not be claimed and reimbursed.

There are also pharmacies that only dispense Western medicines and do not provide botanical medicines. The Faculty of Medicine and the School of Pharmacy only teach courses on Western medicine and Western medicine, and never deal with other therapies and botanicals. From this point of view, medical education in the United States is extremely advanced, but it is also very closed and conservative. It is inevitable that there will still be a dominant family in the heart. This kind of policy and practice of rejecting the different and excluding the mainstream medicine of the West is really difficult to imagine for this country with the most diverse culture. It was not until almost 2,000 years after the founding of the country that it changed from 1970 to 1970.

After nearly 20 years of gestation and slow quantitative changes, in the 90s of the 20th century, there were amazing changes. According to a sample survey conducted by Harvard Medical School and Israel Bess General Hospital in Boston.

There has been a sharp increase in the number of people using other therapies. In 1990, about 33.8 per cent of the adult population (60 million people) were using alternative therapies; In 1997 it surged to 42.1 per cent (83 million people). That is, 4 out of 10 adults have used other therapies.

According to a 1998 survey conducted by Stanford University School of Medicine, 40 percent of people who were dissatisfied with Western medicine chose alternative therapy, and 39 percent of those who were very satisfied chose alternative therapy. In 1990, the number of users increased sharply from 1.5 million to 9.96 million in 1997, with 10.49 million patients. Many patients use Western medicine in combination with other therapies. Of those seeking Western medicine, 31.8% (26.39 million people) also used alternative therapies, and 61% (16 million people) did not consult their own doctor. In 1997, of the 83 million people mentioned above, 17 million were on botanicals, and 3 million were over the age of 65. In 1997, U.S. adults spent $21.2 billion on alternative therapies, including $5.1 billion on botanicals.

The U.S. people spend $27 billion to $34.4 billion on alternative therapies at their own expense. The out-of-pocket cost of using Western medicine is $29.3 billion. The two have become equal.

The growing enthusiasm for alternative therapies has forced 63 of the 135 medical schools in the United States to offer a variety of alternative medicine courses. These include Shijie's top Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Stanford, University of California, and more.

This megatrend has also forced the American Medical Association (AMA), which used to view alternative therapies as a fallacy, to call on its 300,000 members to learn more about alternative therapies and how to diagnose them.

Later individual insurers (California Occidental Life Insurance Company) have begun to agree to insurers to reimburse botanicals for expenses, and other companies are also working on it.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand the main factors that have led to such a great change, and the rise of the world, especially in the United States, the craze for returning to nature and the use of natural botanicals are completely in line with the concept of hundreds of millions of people.

Although the chemical synthesis drugs of Western medicine have special effects, they have large side effects and high prices. Some diseases cannot be treated with synthetic chemicals. In the United States, the elderly have frequent occurrence of various common and frequent diseases, and the use of botanicals has significant efficacy and few side effects, so it is widely popular.

In addition, the new fashion of society advocates that in order to live a healthier life, look younger and live longer, more and more people pay attention to physical fitness and often take various vitamins, minerals and botanicals and other health care drugs.

And people are increasingly inclined to self-medicate rather than rely solely on doctors. The higher the level of education, the stronger this idea becomes. Botanicals are food supplements that can be purchased and taken freely, thus fully meeting the requirements of the people for self-treatment.

In 1994, the Food Supplement Hygiene and Education Act (DSEA) was passed, which included botanicals and vitamins and minerals in the category of food supplements.

This law greatly restricts the FDA's intervention in botanicals, provides the most powerful legislative guarantee for the rise of botanicals, and creates a good environment for great development.

A series of clinical trials on botanicals in Europe and the United States have successively proved that the efficacy of botanicals is conclusive, and there are scientific pharmacology to explain it, which has enhanced the confidence of the public.

50~60% of the people believe that botanical medicine therapy is effective, and 70~80% believe that botanical medicine comes from nature, which is safer than chemically synthesized drugs and has fewer side effects.

The propaganda reports of various media throughout the country have made the whole country begin to discover and accept botanicals with the curious mentality of "discovering the new continent", and many people even regard it as a cure-all.

The U.S. medical system has many ills, medical costs have risen year after year, medical insurance costs have also risen, the people's economic burden is too high, and Western medicine and synthetic drugs are not a cure-all, which cannot meet the people's requirements, prompting them to find new ways.

Don't look at the United States as if it is awesome, there are so few people in the United States, and there are still 40 million people without health insurance. For some common or mild diseases, taking botanicals according to the symptoms is the most economical choice.

Now that Nikki's generation is here, she actually has a good impression of botanicals, and even cosmetics advocate that they are botanicals and do not contain any pharmaceutical additives, so you can see that women's hearts are actually easy to choose.

Now Nikki suddenly found out that the old lady still has this hand, and she also knows that the old lady is now in her eighties, but she looks healthy and elegant and almost in her fifties!

Speaking of which, Jessie Chou really didn't notice much of a difference, some hard-working old people in their sixties are about the same as those in their eighties, and those who have maintenance are about the same as those in their sixties. The old lady is in her fifties, and it doesn't seem to be too much.

"Ms. Yang, is this grass really as amazing as you say after it is planted?" Nikki looked at the old lady who was planting at this time, still fiddling with the seeds she gave in her hand, and said to the old lady with an incredulous expression.

"Yes, as long as this kind of plant is blended with some other drugs in several special methods, it can also achieve the effect of improving the skin and delaying aging. However, there is one medicine that is relatively difficult to obtain, and even if you go to the market and spend a lot of money to buy it, it is difficult to buy it! But Jesse has it in his hand, and you'll know if I have one when the time comes! The old lady said kindly.

Her expression was not as terrifying as Xiao Aite thought at all, the person was probably frightened, and it was a very imaginative one, the more she thought about it, the more terrifying it became, and even looking at the old lady felt that she was very mysterious. It's a bit of a feeling of being scared when you look at it, as if the students are a little uncomfortable when they see the teacher.

Nikki's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she saw Jesse Chou's master when she came here, and she was pleasantly surprised every time, not only because she had an appearance that did not match her age, but also because of her magical cooking skills. The main thing is that the old lady is still a very powerful pharmacist and doctor. It's amazing that you can help people see a doctor without the help of medical equipment, and that you can know the weight of an object just by using your hands.

Moreover, she remembered that in the evening, the old man gave her a strange soup, saying that it was good for his current health. Jessie Chou also persuaded her, and she drank it. However, the result was gratifying, and her body, which was originally a little uncomfortable, was much better this morning, and even her spirit was much better. So now she is convinced of what the old lady said about improving her skin.

"Wow, that's definitely the most haode gift I've ever received when I came here, xiexie you Ms. Yang!"

"Okay, you're welcome, if you like it, it's fate!"

"Fate, I know this, it's just that everything happens to happen, and it's a good thing to meet together.!" Nikki explained.

Over there, Atwood looked at Jessie Chou and looked at him strangely, and after a while, he turned around and thought about something, and couldn't help but be a little strange, "Is the boss going to tell me something?" But why didn't he ask me? ’

After pondering for a while, he felt that he still had to talk to Jesse Chou, after all, as his own boss, he always had to help solve it if he had questions, didn't he? "Boss, do you have something to talk to me about?"

Jessie Chou looked at Atwood and groaned for a moment, wondering how to say this. Don't you just tell him, don't look at my master's youth, in fact, he is already over eighty years old, so don't beat her up! But is that the right thing to say? If people don't mean that, this thing would be hilarious.

"Uh, Atwood, I think you ...... to my master today"