In modern medicine, leukemia is still considered a terminal illness. Though it can be treated with bone marrow transplants, the success rate is not particularly high. Moreover, everyone knows how difficult it is to find suitable donor marrow—a lucky few may survive through this treatment method.
So when Dr. David heard Zhao Xiaodie say that these three plants were used to treat leukemia, even he, in his advanced years and having weathered many storms, couldn't help but feel excitement and surprise.
If Dr. David was merely a botanist, he wouldn't have been so stirred, but let us not forget that in addition to that, David is also a botanist controlling a pharmaceutical company among the top 500 in the world.
