Posted on 05/07/2012 12:51:05 PM PDT by mojito
South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease.
The capsules were made in northeastern China from babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, the Korea Customs Service said.
Customs officials refused to say where the dead babies came from or who made the capsules, citing possible diplomatic friction with Beijing.
Chinese officials ordered an investigation into the production of drugs made from dead fetuses or newborns last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
BTW, what was the lie and libel in that post? I am in full agreement that TCM is mumbo jumbo, that it is a menace to any number of specie of animals, particularly ones already endangered, and that acupuncture, the most accepted form of Chinese “medicine” in the U.S., is still quackery.
The okie didn’t make it across the road because he was stapled to the chicken with cheap brittle Chinese staples and they broke because the Chinese failed to anneal the staples thus not easing the internal stresses in the metal.
Do you want medicine based upon known molecular interactions and proven efficacy - or would you prefer sympathetic magic that if you eat a tiger's testicles you get the sexual power of the tiger?
If you have no understanding of how things actually work - it is easy to assume it is all magical.
Primitive and superstitious thinking produces primitive superstitious medicine for primitive superstitious people.
By the truckload.
When Georges Danton said that revolutions devour their own children, he was speaking figuratively. It fell to a marxist regime to make the statement literal.
“why is it a stretch to think that they consider the corpse to be just another raw ingredient?”
This is ALWAYS the end result of Socialism, isn’t it?
Dehunanization, and loss of all respect for human life?
Note to self: At least 35, per this article:
Altogether 35 animal species are in the unfortunate position of being ingredients for TCM and almost all are exotic, exhibit some sort of physical prowess, and their medical use is entirely based on either analogies or myths. Tiger and leopard bones allegedly cure joint and bone ailments, bear bile strengthens the liver, seahorses are good for the kidney and alleviate impotence, various amphibians sustain a perfect skin, and the glands of musk deer and rhinoceros horn keep the circulation going.
Moreover, being blessed with obvious symbols of virility works against some male animals and gets their better parts served in expensive restaurants or displayed in ornamented wooden boxes and then soaked and consumed in alcohol.
Rareness and TCM usage are inversely related.
While most tiger body parts, ranging from eyes to tail, are attributed great healing powers, the common house pig or donkey are neither popular with TCM nor the subject of much phallic envy.
Demand for rare animal species as a TCM ingredient has gained momentum since the 1990s and significantly decimated already endangered populations around the world.
http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/foreign-view/2010-03/508821.html
As an Okie myself (south of Woodward, too damn close to Amarillo) I knew where you were going with that!
Btw, don’t buy Chinese honey, or any honey if the price seems to good to be true. It’s been found to contain a substance that can cause brain damage. Then you have to move to Texas.
Or for that matter any Chinese food product, esp. fish. Or anything with moving parts. Or childrens’ toys—lead and cadmium. They seem to use lead like McDonalds uses salt.
As far as that goes, I’d avoid anything Chinese. Except Chinese chicks, and even their vaginas are built sideways ....
Worth the reminder. It is the end result, and arguably the intention as well. Self-hatred projected out to the world.
Screw Beijing! Where is our principles? Where is our common decency? What's the next event of our terminal wretchedness?
They are likely fakes anyway.
In China, even the dead-baby powder is likely a counterfeit.
I think you’ve overstated your mostly correct point.
Yeah! Probably made with live-babies!
They say you cannot reason someone out of something they didn’t use reason to get themselves into.
Sorry for being less than reasonable when confronted by sympathetic magic dressed up as if it were actually medicine.
There have always been a small number of China fetishists on FR. I suspect you hit a little close to home.
With a pitchfork?
Save the rare and exotic animals! Use Viagra! Actually, the use of E.D. medicines like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra has done more to save these wild animals than any regulations could.
We don't. If you eat a Chinese food product you are probably eating at least some industrial waste-or worse. One of the few things I agree with the Dems on is country-of-origin labeling for ALL foodstuffs, supplements and pharmaceuticals.
Anti-technological mysticism is one of my pet peeves.
According to Anti-technological mysticism, for example, a beavers dam built by beavers for beaver purposes is a beautiful part of nature and good; while a human dam built by humans for human purposes is an assault upon nature and evil.
Technology = bad.
Natural = good.
Amoebic dysentery is perfectly natural. Using antibiotics is not.
I know which I prefer.
The funny thing is that for the sympathetic magic to actually work - it should go the other way!
A male tiger, if he is lucky, has sex maybe four times a year and for about ten minutes or less.
A male human, if he is lucky, has sex several times a week, or several times a day, and for up to an hour.
It should be the TIGER telling his tiger buddy to eat human testicles for a libido boost!
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