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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRevealed: China’s ‘Rhino Horn Cancer Treatment’ Scheme
Although it has been widely thought that the rumor of rhino horns alleged cancer-curing power started in Vietnam, we now strongly suspect that this rumor originated with (or was propagated by) Chinas Longhui Pharmaceutical rhino horn harvesting project.
Market demand for a cancer cure
The Longhui Pharmaceutical Company publicly claims that it plans to sell rhino horn as a cancer treatment (among other things) on a rhino horn biological medicine industrialization project information page located on the Fularji District Peoples Government website (http://flej.gov.cn), as well as in a similar document obtained elsewhere. Both sources appear to have been published between 2005 2006.
Rhino horn is very important in the Chinese medicine field because of its effects: detoxication and anti-cancer, eliminating pathogenic heat from the blood, removing eczema. Rhino horn resources are rare because rhino are protected by [World Organization] and nobody can catch or kill them or trade in rhino horns. The Chinese government encourages people to develop a new substitute for rhino horn, but without substantial progress.
Therefore, the market demand for rhino horn will be great.
http://www.rhinoconservation.org/2012/01/26/revealed-chinas-rhino-horn-cancer-treatment-scheme/
tabatha
(18,795 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)"Conclusion
TCM is a pre-scientific superstitious view of biology and illness, similar to the humoral theory of Galen, or the notions of any pre-scientific culture. It is strange and unscientific to treat TCM as anything else. Any individual diagnostic or treatment method within TCM should be evaluated according to standard principles of science and science-based medicine, and not given special treatment.
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)1. It's basically nothing but killing endangered things and eating ground up powder of them, or snorting it, makes you healthy because the animal was healthy.
2. It doesn't work. At all. Period.