"And do you realize how many papers can be written from those breakdowns? How many professional advancements, stalled due to a lack of research papers, can be resolved?"
Du Heng was dumbfounded, stuttering, "Teacher, is it really that exaggerated?"
"Exaggerated?" The smile at the corner of Li Jianwei's mouth became more apparent. "Other research topics have already been exhaustively refined. Writing one core paper on those topics typically signals the end of that line of inquiry. But your topic is different. You've opened up a broad category, which can be further broken down by disease causes and pathogenesis. For every type of pathogenesis, the choice of medication, or even a single medicinal ingredient, could be the subject of a core paper. Moreover, your treatment process includes not only Decoction medicine but also acupuncture, moxibustion, and various massage techniques. These treatment methods can be further broken down to analyze the effect of each acupoint on the disease."
