Traditional Chinese medicine industry encountering "animal protection trap"?

China youth daily

Our correspondent WangJunXiu interns ZhangLei

        "A damage to animals living of cruel enterprise can also listed?" Recently, fujian nirvana hall pharmaceutical Co., LTD. Desirous of the gem listing news, caused a sensation. China's traditional Chinese medicine association a alleged animals Asia foundation "distort hype down national Chinese medicine" "communication letter is further detonate dispute. February 13,, the animals Asia foundation to the Chinese traditional Chinese medicine association issued a formal "stop letter, asking them to withdraw previous remarks and apologized.

        "Live bear take bravery" what is not? With the animals Asia foundation, as a representative of the party thinks, "live bear take bravery" too cruel, completely ignore animal rights, called on people to resist bear gallbladders products; In Chinese medicine association, as a representative of the side is that this is under the protection of animals in Chinese traditional medicine banner down, is a conspiracy.

        Protection not only for the purpose

        "In Asia has more than 10000 black bear was imprisoned in a narrow cages inside a bear, in cruel method for extracting bile traditional medicine." The animals Asia foundation on its web site wrote. In recent years, the foundation has called for a "save the black bear," bear gallbladders boycott, many famous website on the stick, BBS have always been there are joint signed a XiongYe calls for national clamp down on the "network sport".

        The animals Asia foundation says, by captivity bear indescribable abuse, in body than their small cage to stay on for 25 years, barely able to move. The bear was drawn to every day two of bile. The owner with a rough catheter inserted into the gallbladder, or is a permanent openings to extracting bile. Many bears a row row of bile and had liver cancer, and the other a series of ailment, such as blindness, arthritis, peritonitis, lachrymal ulcer and endogenous claw, etc.

        Therefore, the enterprise bear gallbladders nirvana hall the news of the release the public, not just the folk animal protection organization, many users are said, should resolutely resist hall on capital market nirvana.

        But researcher at the institute of zoology, Chinese academy of sciences yellow take Ming believe human in the use of natural resources development, improve their benefits, also want to consider how to protect and develop good together. "Man in the use of natural resources and to protect the natural resources, in the process we can not go to extremes, can neither unrestricted consumption of natural resources, and to combat extreme protectionism."

        Beijing university of Chinese medicine clinical professor of TCM GaoXueMin think, protection not only purpose, protection and rational utilization is worth extending and effective method, and the black bear breeding is a very successful examples. "Due to the success of the industrial chain of breeding by established perfect, protects both the healthy development, and bear group provides pharmaceutical, an 123 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine in bear gallbladders materials to continue, protects both the black bear, and to the health of human beings play a role."

        ZhangXiaoHai said it, live bear bile is the stigma of traditional Chinese medicine take. Live bear bile industry take than concept, to protect the name of traditional Chinese medicine, kidnapped Chinese medicine, "see a bear enterprise product packaging, they can understand the production of traditional Chinese medicine, but not gift".

        The world animal protection association, says a report from a high profit bear gallbladders business. To bear gallbladders powder as an example, the international market on the price per gram for 15 to 20 dollars, far higher than China has not low of $0.24. The highest price appeared in Japan, $252 per gram.

        Western medicine research and development use animals, why was there no one against?

        Nirvana hall says that its breeding base used the method of modern science, take living body without the scientific method of bile drainage, do health, painless. Now take the technology has the bravery is banned, only some of the games in a bear illegal with legal, formal keep bear field use is no tube take bravery technology, the black bear bear the pain is very mild.

        The animals Asia foundation is director of external affairs and China ZhangXiaoHai questioned said, the so-called no tube drainage are in the bear's stomach or want to open a hole, or to and the bear gallbladder together, gallbladder so exposed to the environment will still be infected. "This approach in some extent concealment, stronger, let a person look bear no pain, but in fact is still very cruel."

        ZhangXiaoHai is artificial, the bear long locked in the cage, it will have a problem, spinal cord development has a problem, joint problems, etc. These injuries, including mental pain, this is no tube drainage can't solve the problem.

        In view of "abuse bear" of the accused, China pharmaceutical university professor ZhouRongHan think since the 1950 s, playing bear, kill the bear to now breeding black bear painless drainage, this is actually a great progress. He thinks that, with artificial breeding to solve the natural medicine resources, in accordance with the requirements of the standardized production to management, it should not be blamed, and should be praise and support.

        Changchun, associate professor at the university of Chinese medicine, Chinese natural medicinal resource animal medicine LiYiPing expert, said he has been to more than 60 companies, "I'm telling you that these scale enterprise bear gallbladders of production safety are assured. Powder breeding process is not like TV publicity of so, actually online spread of the photos are more than ten years old, or with some individual as bad case example infinite expand to render 'abuse bear'."

        China academy of traditional Chinese medicine, said ZhangRuiXiang, there is no animal protection, in order to prove that the safety and effectiveness of western medicine, in its development process is often used in the animals slaughtered and size countless, why no one clear against it?

        Bear gallbladders can be replaced?

        Shenyang pharmacy university and the former vice President, artificial bear gallbladders group leader JiangQi developed to China youth daily reporter introduces professor, said the development project in artificial bear gallbladders, started in 1983, after nearly 30 years of efforts, task group has completed the approval of all the work before production, including composition analysis, chemical synthesis and two phase of clinical trials. Artificial bear gallbladders are the northeast, north China, south China, mutatis mutandis, three the chemical composition of high quality bear gallbladders for, at present the development of artificial bear gallbladders of active ingredients "bear deoxycholic acid" content is between 35% to 40%, more than 23% of the effective components whose bile drainage was much content, quality as natural bear gallbladders quality.

        JiangQi told reporters, bear gallbladders) as early as 2003 obtained the patent in 2007 through the national drug center organization experts demonstration. But somehow, has not through the examination and approval. And bezoar, tiger bones, musk and other precious Chinese herbal medicine, alternative products are listed, but far bear gallbladders was left behind.

        According to JiangQi introduced in this paper, are healthy live bear bile on extraction, the effective ingredient content of only 23%, much lower than the 35% of the effective components bear gallbladders high quality content. A bear to the treatment of black bear because a wound infection caused by the disease extend the life of the black bear, common antibiotics for a long time for the black bear, these antibiotics are also likely to remain in bile, drainage of the drug manufacturing with bear gallbladders, is likely to bring the use of the drug in patients with the second damage. And if bear gallbladders can successfully get) the drug agency approval into production, certainly will can replace natural gall bladders, to bear and need to treat patients with bear gallbladders are the Gospel.

        But China's traditional Chinese medicine academy of sciences researcher weeks such as Chinese medicine experts think extraordinary, artificial bear gallbladders can replace natural gall bladders. Weeks extraordinary said, bears deoxycholic acid dissolution mainly cholesterol stone, other secondary role. Of course, the country has recently, noted that its basic drugs can treat alcohol fatty liver, viral hepatitis, but the effect is different, auxiliary function or not. In some of the traditional Chinese medicine with gall bladders components, such as phlegmy heat qing, bear gallbladders injection, is the major component of bear gallbladders, as API, bears deoxycholic acid also no equivalent experiment, not a foregone conclusion.

        GaoXueMin think, if can be natural species of the effective components in real analysis, artificial synthesis is also go a way, but the road is very far away, equivalent, parts, safety, artificial and natural, very difficult, including musk, bezoar, no matter the differences in the composition, the differences between the curative effect, application value differ, so the work, can is a direction, but still has a way to go, at present the irreplaceable.

        For "western interests" deeply?

        February 6, 2012, China association of Chinese traditional medicine to communicate a letter, circulars says, "by the western interest group funded by the British people, animals Asia foundation, established under the animal protection against our country, long engaged in the name of breeding and black bear valuable Chinese herbal medicine enterprise propaganda", the purpose of which is "in China XiongYe a clamp down on stress, to limit medicine, Chinese traditional medicine weaken bear gallbladders powder for western interest group competitiveness, China market for drug monopoly and more big interest".

        In this document, Chinese traditional Chinese medicine association says, because it is such a "distorted hype", "China XiongYe now a dogged, many emergency treatment drug will disappear, and 153 bear gallbladders with proprietary Chinese medicine will not exist, 183 home pharmaceutical companies each year more than 100 yuan market will with both hands.and reaching out, tens of thousands of workers will lose their jobs."

        February 13,, the animals Asia foundation to the Chinese traditional Chinese medicine association issued a formal "stop letter, said" communication letter of traditional Chinese medicine association of China accused false, asking them to withdraw previous comments and apologize.

        ZhangXiaoHai said, the animals Asia foundation every year source of capital is true of all, there are formal, have the reputation of the accounting firm audit. "In the donation we have clear policy, and medicine enterprises related or and animal relevant industries, even if be again a money we will not consider. Each medicine enterprises or most medicine enterprises have heavy animal experiment process, we as animal welfare organization is against animal experiment."

        ZhangXiaoHai tells a reporter, the animals Asia foundation most donations are small donations, with 2011 years of data, for example, 94% of the funds of animals Asia foundation from individual donations, "a few yuan several dollars of that kind of", the remaining 6% of the donation, mainly from and standard chartered bank and other enterprise activities funding, in addition, almost no big institutions donations.

        LiYi equal Chinese medicine experts think that, although there is no direct evidence that the animals Asia foundation, strongly against the bears farmed for the bravery of interest groups funded by the western, but analysis to see, "medicine industry is a big industry, Chinese traditional medicine and chemical medicine each account for certain share, the competition between a, competition is intense, the result of the competition is not you into is I back, take various means of competition, the traditional Chinese medicine, or don't understand or attack, there may be some deep background".

        But there are also pointed out that Internet users, synthetic bear deoxycholic acid price is very expensive, Germany, for example, the optimal production think eph bear deoxycholic acid capsule a box of 250 mg × 25 the price is 270 yuan or so, and it is just a kind of effective component whose bile. If can destroy the bear gallbladders competition, expensive optimal think eph bear deoxycholic acid capsule will naturally is market share growth, this means fortune. There is also great interests motives.

        For western conspiracy theories, JiangQi feel funny: "we the study since the 1980 s, is a project, approved by the public health ministry in the national drug center under guidance of, would have won the national patent, if people get approval is benefit." According to the reporter access, bear gallbladders) in July 2003, obtained the patent, patent holders of shenyang institute of medicine is ca, inventor is YangZeMin and WangYongJin.