After the media communication meeting held in china association of traditional chinese medicine, Fang, president of the Chinese Medicine Association, said that "bears are very comfortable in the process of drainage without tubes" and it was widely circulated on the Internet. Fang said many times at that time that the current live bear bile collection without intubation and drainage had no effect on the health of black bears. "Now live bears are self-made, painless drainage, and have no effect on black bears."
However, Dr. Sun, the project coordinator of the World Society for the Protection of Animals, told the Morning Post reporter yesterday that in fact, the risk existed from the first time the bear was ready to take bile, and the "abuse" of the bear's pain existed because the professional requirements of this operation were quite high, and the data such as the success rate of the operation, the diseases and complications caused by it were not known at present.
A staff member of its foundation said that Guizhentang's public visit separated the media from environmentalists, and it was impossible to observe the essential problems without professional knowledge.
It is really irreplaceable for a live bear to take courage.
Jiang Qi, former vice president of Shenyang Medical University, introduced the general course of artificial bear bile at the seminar organized by the Foundation. Earlier, Fang, president of china association of traditional chinese medicine, once said, "So far, there is no substitute, and it is even more difficult to simply replace it with herbs according to the functional indications." Some experts in Beijing Tongrentang also said that there is no substitute for bear bile.
However, Jiang Qi said that the artificial bear gall was approved by the Ministry of Health 1983 and was undertaken by Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Liaoning Pharmaceutical Industry Research Institute and other units. After dozens of times of formula screening, researchers finally made the chemical composition, physical and chemical properties and stability of artificial bear bile consistent with that of high-quality natural bear bile, with the same main effective components, similar content and stable quality.
After painstaking research, the second phase clinical trial of artificial bear bile was jointly completed by Longhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Shanghai Shuguang Hospital. The results showed that there was no significant difference between artificial bear bile and natural bear bile in the treatment of acute tonsillitis and hypertension with hyperactivity of liver fire, and 1: 1 could be used instead.
Jiang Qi said that by 2007, the artificial bear bile had completed all the work such as research and development, testing and property right approval, and was waiting for the state's approval. "If we have any questions, you can download the official documents, and we can modify and supplement them. But in any case, it can't be pressed for so long. "
In addition, public information shows that recent research by the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the University of Hong Kong shows that three kinds of Chinese medicines, namely Cortex Phellodendri, Rhizoma Coptidis and Scutellariae Radix, are more effective than bear bile in inhibiting the proliferation and spread of liver cancer cells.
3. Is the quality of live bear bile really good?
Jiang Qi, former vice-president of Shenyang Medical University, also said, "The content of Tudeka sodium in the artificial bear bile we developed is consistent with that of high-quality natural bear bile, and the quality is stable", but the quality is very unstable because the lifestyle and diet structure of the drainage bear are completely different from that of the real natural bear, and the bile of the drainage bear is insufficient in the intestinal and hepatic circulation, and long-term drainage has caused physiological changes in the drainage mouth.
Professor Ding, dean of a third-class hospital in Guangzhou, said that taking bile from a live bear is definitely traumatic, and the wound is easily inflamed if it doesn't heal for a long time. In order to avoid inflammation, most bears are injected with antibiotics, so the effect of taking bile medicine will be discounted. The head of the public relations and education department of the Asian Animal Foundation said that antibiotic residues have been found in the bile of black bears in bear farms many times.
Earlier, Zhang Xiaohai, director of foreign affairs in China of animals asia foundation, said that the bear bile-taking wound did not heal all the year round, and it was difficult to completely disinfect it when inserting a catheter to take bile. Therefore, the bile outlet of bears is often inflamed and ulcerated, and hepatobiliary lesions are also common, leading to gallbladder infection, liver infection and even cancer, "which may pose a health threat to consumers."
4. Did Guizhentang abuse live bears to take courage?
At present, it seems that Guizhentang's excuse of "taking courage from a living bear to protect Chinese medicine" is difficult to justify.
The Economic Information Daily, a subsidiary of Xinhua News Agency, reported that according to the data of the US Food and Drug Administration, among the bear bile products currently produced by Guizhentang, except bear bile powder and Xiongdan Capsule, more than 30 products have not obtained the batch numbers of bear bile drugs or drugs containing bear bile, mainly health care products such as bear bile tea and liver-clearing tea. However, the products of Guizhentang have not been approved by any health care products.
Jia Yaguang, secretary-general of china health care association, said that although taking bile from live bears has not been abolished in China at present, its fundamental principle is "taking bear bile as medicine". If manufacturers use bear bile for other purposes instead of "taking medicine", there is no doubt that it should be strictly restricted.
Zhang Xiaohai, the foreign affairs director of China District of Asia Animal Foundation, once said that taking a product of Guizhentang as an example, only 3g bear bile powder is contained in a 50cm square box, which is very luxurious and the price is as high as 400 yuan. "Bear bile consumption is mostly gift consumption, not drug consumption. And these gift consumption are based on the pain of black bears. "
Brief introduction of events
Live bile collection, also known as live bear bile collection, is to permanently insert a metal tube into the bear's gallbladder, and the other end is exposed outside the bear's abdomen to extract bile for many times for a long time. Taking live bear bile has evolved into a hot event on the Internet, which mainly refers to the recent (July 2009) social phenomenon of taking black bear bile to make drugs for profit. Black bears are often infected because their wounds are exposed and will never heal.
In order to increase the outflow of bile, a special needle was used to pump it into the gallbladder of the black bear to obtain bile. At this time, the bile-pumped bear will scream in pain and scratch its abdomen. Some bears are insane because they can't stand the pain of pumping bile, and some will commit suicide and take out their liver, intestines and internal organs. This is a primitive and cruel way to summon up courage, and bear farmers make huge profits in this way.
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