China removes pangolin from traditional medicine list

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June 9, 2020

By Agence France-Presse



China has removed pangolin parts from its official list of traditional medicines, state media reported Tuesday, days after increasing legal protections on the endangered animal.

Pangolins were left out of the official Chinese Pharmacopoeia this year, along with substances including a pill formulated with bat feces, the state-owned Health Times reported.

The pangolin, the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal, is thought by some scientists to be the possible host of the novel coronavirus that emerged at a market in China’s Wuhan city last year.

Its body parts fetch a high price on the black market as they are commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine, although scientists say they have no therapeutic value.

China’s forestry authority on Friday gave pangolins the highest level of protection in the country due to its threatened status.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/china-removes-pangolin-from-traditional-medicine-list/

[texasfiddler]

1. Good! Poor things need a break

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I pray the demand for them drops to zero and maybe the species can survive.

[Phoenix61]

3. Yeah!!! Some good news! nt

[Disaffected]

4. Small steps forward:

Now, if they would just remove all the other endangered animal parts (and plants) from their "official list" (quack medicine list IOWs), the world would be a lot better off.

[Raine]

5. TERRIFIC News! ☺ nt

[Archae]

6. "Chinese Traditional Medicine" is a product of Mao.

Oh yeah.

Back when Mao had absolute power, he was bothered by how "Western" medicine was making such leaps and bounds.

So he began a propaganda program, saying how "superior" what he called "traditional medicine" was compared to "Western" medicine.

The problem was, with so many people in so many areas, just about anything and everything was touted as "traditional."

And to this day, people in China still use worthless "remedies," like rhino horn instead of Viagra.

[hatrack]

7. Making it harder to get, which will make the price go up, which will motivate smugglers . . ..

Which will produce more trafficked pangolins, which will . . . .

See also: rhino horn, totoaba, ivory, shark fins, tiger bones, sun bear gall bladders . . . .

Fuck. Chinese. Traditional. Medicine.