Revealed: China’s ‘Rhino Horn Cancer Treatment’ Scheme

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Although it has been widely thought that the rumor of rhino horn’s alleged “cancer-curing” power started in Vietnam, we now strongly suspect that this rumor originated with (or was propagated by) China’s 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 People’s 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]

1. Bogus Medicine - China's Rhino Horn Scheme (video)

[HuckleB]

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[HuckleB]

3. What Is Traditional Chinese Medicine?

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/what-is-traditional-chinese-medicine/

"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]

4. Seriously, fuck "Traditional Chinese medicine" with a hot poker.

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.

[Odin2005]

5. This is "Alternative Medicine". Nice, eh?