"It has the possibility," says Vollrath, “to disrupt(扰乱) the market in EastAsia, where rhino horn is used in Chinese traditional medicine to treat fever.Economic models show that if you can choose very good fakes and bad fakes with a huge price range, thecustomer is unsure whether ...
Their horns are sometimes sold as trophies or decorations, but more often they are ground up and used in traditional Chinese medicine. The powder is often added to food or brewed in a tea in the belief that the horns are a powerful aphrodisiac, a hangover cure and treatment for fever, ...
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...
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 ...
Because rhino horn is basically fingernail material, it's painless to cut and does grow back. But rhino horn is valued in traditional Eastern medicine as a supposed cure from everything from fever to rheumatism, which has led to rampant poaching of all five rhinoceros species. The northern whi...