The Chinese government promotes bear bile injections against Coronavirus

The country's National Health Commission promotes injections of a traditional medicine treatment that contains bear bile.

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Against the coronavirus, the National Health Commission of China authorized with a document of 3 March 2020 the injections of a traditional medicine treatment that contains the bear bile to treat viral pneumonia.

These are injections of "Tan Re Qing" recommended in the most serious and critical cases of the coronavirus. So, while much of the scientific consensus indicates that wildlife consumption and trade caused the pandemic, the Chinese government health agency itself now authorizes a treatment containing the bile of so-called captive moon bears. Bile which is normally used in traditional Chinese medicine as an anti-inflammatory and liver protective substance. With this "ingredient" we make medicines but also body products, shampoos and more.

We have talked about moon bears many times. Caught with traps they often cause mutilation of the body, they are then kept in tiny cages that deform the limbs and a catheter is inserted into the gallbladder to extract the bile twice a day which will be used to make medicines and ointments. A sad fate of Asiatic black bears, better known as Moon Bears, because they are adorned with a white half moon near the chest on the dark fur, incarcerated in infernal Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean farms, tortured every day by the hundreds for the extraction of their precious bile, a traditional element of traditional Asian medicine, which prescribes it to healing purposes for 3 thousand years.

As we mentioned earlier, bear bile contains an active ingredient known as ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA), whose ingestion is attributed to a reduction in fever and inflammation, a protective effect on the liver, improvements in vision and elimination of gallstones. But when in the 70s, the so-called "moon" bears became a protected species because they were on the verge of extinction, prohibiting their hunting in the great forests of the Asian continent, they devised the creation of "farms" in which to "milk them", avoiding their extermination and also obtaining an infinitely higher production of bile. Now, even the country's National Health Commission recommends it against the coronavirus sponsoring as we said injections of "Tan Re Qing"

“Aside from the irony of promoting a wildlife product for the treatment of a disease that the scientific community has overwhelmingly concluded that it originated in wildlife, the continued promotion of the use of endangered animals in medicine is enormously irresponsible in an era of unprecedented biodiversity loss, including part of an illegal system and unsustainable trade, ”explains Aron White, EIA Wildlife Campaigner and China Specialist.

According to White, all farms present health risks, regardless of whether the animals are raised for meat or traditional medicines. Either way, hundreds of wild animals live crammed together, in the dirt and often next to the carcasses of their own kind that have not made it.

“At this historic moment, as the world is paralyzed by the coronavirus pandemic, the public health and environmental risks of the wildlife trade are rightfully receiving unprecedented attention. There could not be a better time to end the use of threatened wild animal parts in medicine, especially as recent surveys conducted in China showed that the vast majority of respondents opposed the use. In doing so, China could become a true leader in conservation and we hope other countries will follow suit, ”says White.

As we often reiterate, there is no scientific evidence that bear bile is effective in treatments, as well as for other animals that are used as ingredients, from pangolins to elephants.

Fonte: National Health Commission/ Environmental Investigation Agency

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