Chapter 1866 — Deeply Angered
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These were two prescriptions, not one! Wei Zhao had previously conceived of them as a single prescription, which naturally gave rise to any number of irrationalities and contradictions—but once split into two, there was no problem at all!
Yet after Wei Zhao had separated the prescriptions, a flash of anger crossed his face! A physician's heart is one of benevolence. Wei Zhao was no saint, and he would not casually take on patients, but whenever he did treat someone, he would devote his utmost to curing their illness, rather than giving them perfunctory treatment or curing one ailment only to bring on another, over and over again. Now, of the prescriptions in Kang the Divine Physician's weight-loss medicine, one was unremarkable—an ordinary tonic formula. What puzzled Wei Zhao was this: people trying to lose weight were not the dying, so why use such a tonic prescription? Many of the ingredients in it could replace food and supply the body with a measure of nourishment, but such decoctions were used only for those unable to take food by mouth, to sustain their lives—and nowadays, glucose and the like had largely replaced them. One could say this prescription was all but obsolete.
But when he looked at the other prescription, Wei Zhao understood at once why the tonic was needed!
This prescription could suppress the function of the digestive tract, obstructing the digestion and absorption of food so that it passed straight out of the body. Taken over the long term, it could lead to gastrointestinal dysfunction—even outright damage to the stomach and intestines!
The principle behind the two prescriptions was now plain: one used medicine to supply the body with a small amount of nourishment, while the other prevented the digestion of the food eaten each day, and by these means achieved the goal of weight loss! But this was no weight loss—it was outright swindling.
Taken short-term, it might produce a marked effect, but taken long-term, by the time the stomach and intestines were ruined, it would be too late for regret!
This kind of dirty money was what Wei Zhao detested most. And the reason no one had discovered anything amiss in the prescription was precisely the formulator's cleverness: he had blended the two prescriptions into one, so that even if someone uncovered the formula, they could not make sense of the principle behind it!
Only a man like Wei Zhao, with no small gift for pharmacology, the properties of medicines, and the identification of medicinal ingredients, could spot the flaw—and this, in all likelihood, was an important reason the Kang family could openly sell such a product with such confidence!
Wei Zhao recorded, one by one, the testing methods and the pharmacology and properties of the weight-loss medicine, and with that an important task was done. As for the Kang family, Wei Zhao naturally could not resort to the same tactics he had used against the An family.
Domineering as Wei Zhao was by nature, he also held firmly to principle. The An family had used underhanded means against Gu Pengzhan, so Wei Zhao had answered with underhanded means in return. But the Kang family—at least on the surface—had employed legitimate business tactics in competing with Guandafu Pharmaceuticals. If Wei Zhao wanted to win back the market, he would do best to use proper means as well, rather than seizing it by force, which would do no good to Guandafu's reputation either.
As for You Shisan, the chief culprit last time, Wei Zhao had already disposed of him. Now, to deal with the Kang family, ordinary means alone would be enough to strike them down beyond any hope of recovery.