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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
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Tradition kills |
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Age-old Chinese cures needlessly contribute to
extinction of wildlife
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By Perry Gil S. Mallari, Reporter With
report from
April Anne Songco, Special to The Manila Times
With all the accolades attributed to it, there
is a dark side to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The production
of a number of medicines used in TCM contributed greatly to the
extinction of a number of species among them are tigers, rhinoceros,
moon bears and sea horses.
Doctors of TCM for centuries used tiger bones
for the treatment of joint maladies like arthritis while rhino horns
were believed to cure fever, delirium and convulsions. Bears are now
farmed in China so their bile could be extracted. Practitioners of
TCM put a high value on bear bile as cure for bacterial infections
and inflammation. Seahorses, meanwhile, were used for the treatment
of impotence, urinary incontinence, wheezing and old age
debilitation.
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