rhinos have been hunted nearly to extinction. Their horns are sometimes sold as trophies or decorations, but more often they are ground up and used intraditional Chinese medicine. The powder is often added to food or brewed in a tea in the belief that the horns are a powerful aphrodisiac...
Byline: Sue Lloyd-RobertsTRADITIONAL Medicine Street in Hanoi is a chaos of cars, motorcycles and bicycling street vendors. Old women, their bikes weighed down with trays of fresh flowers and fruit, yell at slick young motorcyclists. They all shout at the cars.This is where the Vietnamese ...
researchers at Chinese University in Hong Kong found that large doses of rhino horn extract could slightly lower fever in rats (as could extracts from Saiga antelope and water buffalo horn), but the concentration of horn given by a traditional Chinese medicine specialist are many, many times low...
Though it is not allowed to hunt rhinos,many are still killed for their horns.which can sell for as much as ﹩30,000 each.Most of them are used to make drugs as traditional medicines in Asian countries.Some people believe that the horns work well in treating pain,fever and even cancer....