Recently, two star health-preserving products—Gan Le Ying and Tian Yi Sheng—of Lei Yunshang, a subsidiary company of China Grand Enterprises, were patented at national level, another great success of the company after its product Miraculous Pills of Six Ingredients was listed among influential Chinese pharmaceutical brands during the grand meeting of China Pharmaceutical Enterprises Cooperation and Development Organization. This success is proof of a perfect and innovative combination of modern technology with traditional Chinese medicine, and reveals the glamour of traditional Chinese medicine and its efficacy to maintain people’s health.

Modern improvement of traditional Chinese herbal remedies makes traditional Chinese medicine a more attractive way to enrich health.

The formula of Gan Le Ying originates from the section of phlegm damp of the chapter of warm heat disease of the medical book “Discourse on Pill Prescription” (“Dan Wan Fang Lun”) authored by Lei Dasheng. It was recorded that the formula, kept secret among the Lei clan and pharmacy keepers, was designed to help people maintain health in their daily life. Gan Le Ying means that “one may enjoy his/her life pleasantly and without any worry”. This formula is comprised of seven ingredients including bitter tartary buckwheat, Taihu Lake lotus leaf, Chinese wolfberry fruit, poria, cassia seed, cape jasmine fruit, and dried tangerine peel. This remedy combines herbs in warm nature with those in cool nature, has the functions of tonification and purgation, and can regulate internal organs. It can also remove dampness, phlegm, and blood stasis, and effectively relieve the fatty liver.

The formula of Tian Yi Sheng originates from the section of turbidity and damp-heat removing, the chapter of damp-heat diseases, “Discourse on Pill Prescription”. This remedy, an innovative combination of both traditional and modern techniques, can effectively reduce blood fat, with bitter tartary buckwheat (good for stomach) accompanied with the lotus leaf (able to eliminate heart-fire), with Pu’er tea (able to clear heat) accompanied with semen cannabis (good for the spleen), and with hawthorn fruit (good for digestion) accompanied with fingered citron fruit (able to soothe the liver) and cape jasmine fruit (able to remove dampness).

According to “Compendium of Materia Medica", “the lotus leaf is conducive to weight loss”. The lotus leaf, an important ingredient of both Tian Yi Sheng and Gan Le Ying. Making use of the theories of traditional Chinese medicine, the experts of Lei Yunshang researched for several times the efficacy of the lotus leaf in remedies, and the research results demonstrated that the formulas could lower blood lipids effectively but tasted and looked bad after being mixed with water. Therefore, the R&D team of Lei Yunshang studied the lotus leaf in depth and found that the leaf has an active property and thus can release a strong flavor of medicine. The team then looked for adjuvants to improve the taste, and after trials figured out that bitter tartary buckwheat could effectively improve the taste. Then with this herb as a core ingredient, the R&D team used the techniques of “embedding” and “sustained releasing” to extract the effective component from the buckwheat and purify it to ensure good absorption by the human body. At the same time, the pleasant scorched flavor of the buckwheat made formulas look, smell, and taste better.

Lei Yunshang, a brand with 300 years of history, makes the culture of traditional Chinese medicine once again part of Chinese people’s daily life.

“Preventive treatment of diseases”, an idea of traditional Chinese medicine, advocates that people should cherish their life, pay more attention to health-preserving, and prevent diseases. As President Xi Jinping mentioned, we should make the past serve the present; we need to improve people’s health by realizing the innovative transformation and development of Chinese traditional medicine and the health-maintaining culture, and by integrating the traditional wisdom with modern health concepts.

Lei Yunshang, a subsidiary company of China Grand Enterprises, is a Chinese brand with 300 years of history and a profound culture, and boasts its exemplary traditional remedy-preparing techniques. The health-maintaining function of traditional Chinese medicine is a cultural symbol of this science. To explore the field of health-preserving products is to meet the new demands of people for health products and is also to follow development rules—developing traditions, making the past serve the present, and weeding through the old to bring forth the new. Lei Yunshang has produced many traditional Chinese medical products by combining the traditional health-preserving culture with innovative ideas, a creative manner to further promote and upgrade the brand. The products of this company have given a new expression to traditional Chinese medicine and have showed a way to use this science in daily life, and also the products represent the innovative transformation and development of traditional Chinese medicine and the health-preserving culture.

Lei Yunshang has launched more than ten series of products (about100 in total) including health products (for example, dendrobium officinale, tablets of mixed notoginseng, lucid ganoderma and kudzu roots, sporoderm-broken spore powder of lucid ganoderma, and ultra fine pearl powder), health-enriching foods and creams (for instance, health-maintaining creams, health tea, lozenges, and donkey-hide glue), and cosmeceuticals. With a respect for traditional Chinese medicine, Lei Yunshang has combined the cultural value with the practical value of the traditional health-preserving culture, and has integrated the cultural essence kept down in ancient books with modern health concepts, to make traditional Chinese medicine more understandable and acceptable by the public, and to make the cultural treasure that we have inherited from our ancestors part of our daily life.

Innovation is the foundation of and driving force for the development of traditional Chinese medicine and the associated health-maintaining culture. Every innovation embodies humans’ pursuit of a better life. Lei Yunshang will keep developing and innovating traditional Chinese medicine to unveil the glamour of the health-preserving culture and give full play to the functions of traditional Chinese medicine so as to contribute more to human health.