Researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) who have developed a traditional Chinese medicine formula to suppress COVID-19 yesterday said that they plan to transfer the rights to the product on a non-profit basis. The formula, known as “Jing Guan Fang,” contains weeping forsythia, Baikal skullcap, Chinese thorowax root, Magnolia officinalis bark and Korean mint, Hsu Chung-hua (許中華), a professor at NYCU’s Institute of Traditional Medicine, told a news conference, adding that it helps to suppress COVID-19 infection and symptoms. The product was developed early in the COVID-19 pandemic, before vaccines became available, by drawing on knowledge from the SARS