Recycled bezoar, part 2
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shaing tai suggests this "possible clue about the mystery":
"11 Wàn yuán yī kē Angōng niúhuáng wán, guòqí 'shényào' chéng tiānjià cángpǐn hūyoule shéi”
Wèishéme guòqí de Angōng niúhuáng wán rúcǐ zǒuqiào? Shāndōng zhōng yīyào dàxué yào xuéyuàn shēngyào xì zhǔrèn Lǐ Fēng jiàoshòu fēnxī, xiànzài shìchǎng shàng zhǔyào shōugòu 1993 nián qián shēngchǎn de Angōng niúhuáng wán, qí zhǔyào yuányīn jiùshì,1989 nián wǒguó shíshī “Yěshēng dòngwù bǎohù tiáolì”, xiàndìng 1993 nián yǐhòu, yěshēng xīniújiǎo bèi mínglìng jìnzhǐ yòng yú zhìyào yuánliào, yuán yǒu de shèngyú xījiǎo yuánliào bèi fēngcún, yòng yú yánjiū děng tèshū yòngtú. Shēngchǎn chǎngjiā yúshì gǎi yòng shuǐniú jiǎo de nóngsuō fěn tìdài tā. Cǐwài, tiānrán niúhuáng, tiānrán shèxiāng yě hěn ángguì, yóuyú yuánliào xīquē, xiànzài de Angōng niúhuáng wán duō gǎi yòng réngōng shèxiāng děng tìdài pǐn.
"110,000 yuan for one Angong Niuhuang Pill. Who has been fooled by the expired miracle drug becoming a high-priced collection?"
Why are expired Angong Niuhuang Pills so popular? Professor Li Feng, director of the Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, analyzed that the market now mainly purchases Angong Niuhuang Pills produced before 1993. The main reason is that after 1993, China implemented the "Wildlife Protection Regulations", which stipulated that wild rhino horns were expressly prohibited from being used as pharmaceutical raw materials. The original remaining rhino horn raw materials were sealed and used for special purposes such as research. Manufacturers then replaced it with concentrated powder of buffalo horns. In addition, natural bezoar and natural musk are also very expensive. Due to the scarcity of raw materials, Angong Niuhuang Pills now mostly use substitutes such as artificial musk.
If you google on angong niuhuan wan you will see how costly it is, its medical applications and pharmaceutical properties, and its history.
Selected readings
- "Recycled bezoar" (11/29/24)
- "Bezoar" (8/2/21)
- "From Basilisks to Bezoars: The Surprising History of Harry Potter's Magical World", The New York Academy of Medicine
- "A Persian word in a Sinitic topolect" (3/10/20)
AntC said,
December 1, 2024 @ 3:35 am
If you google on angong niuhuan wan
It's specifically expired Angong Niuhuang Pills. Is it that the expired pills are better for some reason? (like the formulation has changed?) or is it that 'expired' is a poor translation of what's going on? And I did come across a stock market advisory saying the bottom is falling out of the market for all such pills (but beware I believe it's machine translated; it does at least confirm we're talking about bovine gallbladder):
What I did come across when Googling was the 'recycle…' word, as we had with bezoar. Those quotes are from "recycling merchants". I can't help but feel 'recycle' is a poor translation. It means 'resellers'? 'retailers'?
With the bezoar post, I guessed 'recycled' meant 'regurgitated'. I saw Kendra Dale's response; for me it didn't answer bks's question. Now I'm just baffled.
Philip Taylor said,
December 1, 2024 @ 6:07 am
Is it not, Ant, simply that the expired (= "passed their use-by date") angong niuhuan wan contained real rhinoceros horn while the modern version is not permitted to by law ? Google "china-and-laos-wildlife-traffickers-exploiting-coronavirus-fears-to-peddle-illegal-wildlife-fake-cures" for more [inserting links here tends to seriously delay publication of comment].
Incidentally, Victor's "Google on …" surprised me — I don't think I have ever encountered this phrase before — in my idiolect, one simply "Google"s something rather than "Googles on".
stephen said,
December 1, 2024 @ 4:19 pm
I keep thinking of bizr, snack foods which are various types of seeds such as pumpkin and pistachio.
Could there be any connection with bizarre and bazaar?
I don't suppose, busy and business?
Nico said,
January 5, 2025 @ 2:55 am
It's specifically expired Angong Niuhuang Pills. Is it that the expired pills are better for some reason? (like the formulation has changed?) or is it that 'expired' is a poor translation of what's going on? And I did come across a stock market advisory saying the bottom is falling out of the market for all such pills (but beware I believe it's machine translated; it does at least confirm we're talking about bovine gallbladder):