February 24, 2003, Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhu Yu's report "Gentian Liver Pills - a good medicine to clear the fire or the root cause of "disease"" caused a social and medical community uproar. The report disclosed that the traditional Chinese medicine Longdian Diarrhea Liver Pill, which has been used for many years, can cause kidney damage even if it is taken normally, which shook the traditional concept of "Chinese medicine has no toxic side effects" inherent in the minds of the Chinese people, and people began to question the safety of Chinese medicine. This story won the 2003 Top Ten News Award. Since then, major media outlets across the country have reported that taking gentian liver pills can cause kidney damage.

The lawsuit seems to end up being a lot of thunder but little rain, because it is a prescription drug, so the manufacturers mostly put the blame on the Pharmacopoeia, saying that if the lawsuit should be sued the Pharmacopoeia, because it is not a product developed by the manufacturers, but in accordance with the Pharmacopoeia production, so the last more for the end of the matter.