This is a really cool initiative. Traditional Chinese herbal medicine is great for preventing illness, but not for curing it once it has already set in.
In contrast, Western medicine is less focused on prevention and more on treating (not curing) illness once symptoms appear.
In the East, fishing villages became skyscrapers in a generation.
Imagine Asia applying that same scaling mindset to life science and biotech.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) preserves 2,000 years of systematically recorded clinical insight.
Modern studies have explored its formulas, but results are scattered, sample sizes small and omics data very rare.
Much is entirely overlooked by the West. Not because it lacks potential, but because the compounds aren’t patentable and there’s little incentive to run trials.
I’ve taken lion’s mane and cordyceps for years. I find the impact profound.
Asia’s cities virtualized almost overnight. If Asian medicine is digitized, it will leap ahead of the West.
What if we start by digitising every TCM protocol? Chemical fingerprints, PK/PD data, real-world outcomes, IP tokenised on chain.
Picture community-governed @BioProtocol DAOs in Guangzhou, Singapore, Seoul, and Kuala Lumpur
Running adaptive, crowdsourced trials. Rewarding replication. Surfacing lead compounds. Honoring holistic context.
Open infrastructure beats closed pipelines.
We should start mapping TCM’s heuristics to global standards. I’d love to see a DAO focused on this. $BIO is also looking at running trials in the region and manufacturing.
Building in DeSci?
In APAC and need funding?
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