Animal medicine and animal protection do not contradict

Time: 2016-09-02

Source: China's traditional Chinese medicine

Author: hallen Liu Su

Recently, the wildlife protection act repair again after all these years, the new regulation: "the artificial breeding technology mature and stable wildlife under special state protection, through the scientific reasoning, included in wildlife conservation administrative department under the state council, formulate the artificial breeding of wildlife under special state protection list. To wildlife and its products, the listed can with artificial breeding license, according to the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government of the wildlife conservation annual check by the competent department of production directly obtain special identity, with special logo to sell and use, to ensure the traceability", and "wildlife and its products as a management and use of medicines, also should abide by laws and regulations on the management of drug".

Animal medicine as part of the traditional Chinese medicine, especially some expensive fine Chinese traditional medicine the main raw material, high-profile. The revisions show that certain conditions of wild animals can be used as a medicine, prompting chun xia. Experts say the animal medicine has its irreplaceability, reasonable exploitation and utilization of wildlife resources and animal protection do not contradict.

Wild animal medicine should be cautious and reasonable

Researcher at the Chinese resource center of traditional Chinese medicine academy of sciences Li Junde part involved in the law on the protection of wild animals, he introduces, wild animals can be used as a medicine, become a focus of dispute in the revision process, "the wild animal medicine to some extreme animals are concerned, they think, artificial breeding and cultivation to the wild species conservation, wildlife medicine strong demand, will stimulate the market, encourage poaching of wild species."

HuanZiWei act, director of the National People's Congress ZhaiYong said in a news conference after revising the law, wild animal medication problem, is the wild animal protection laws change involves one of the biggest and the most sensitive, the most intense debate, he admits, "in fact, I think from the perspective of saving lives, you should think about."

Chinese academy of social sciences research group leader of the state of the union of Chinese medicine Chen Jiguang thinks, as the focus of controversy now rare, rare animals API often is rarely used in everyday, such as Ann palace bezoar bolus expensive wonder drug, "used in some emergency situations, the effect is obvious. Such drugs have necessary existence and value, should be careful and reasonable use."

Li Junde said the wild animal protection law revision that animal resources protection and rational utilization, development and utilization of some animal medicine and animal protection does not conflict, has become the consensus of all.

Animals have their irreplaceability

The CPPCC national committee, the Chinese academy of sciences wangjing hospital of traditional Chinese medicine director of orthopaedic WenJianMin focus on animal medicine for more than twenty years. During the NPC and CPPCC this year, WenJianMin, jin-sheng Yang, lu love 14 the CPPCC national committee signed a proposal calling for equality: should modify the wildlife protection act, valuable Chinese herbal medicine of both musk, bear bile powder, inheritance and development of the horn, etc.

As early as May 1993, the state council promulgated the notice about the ban on trade in rhino horn and tiger bone, all about tiger trade activities all been suspended; The department of health has deleted in the "Chinese pharmacopoeia" tiger medicinal standards, all related to the tiger herbal medicine at all.

As orthopedic WenJianMin, doctor of animal medicine, especially tiger medicine concern, "tiger bone on bone renew reinforcement has an irreplaceable role, but because at present are forbidden to use, greatly influence the treatment effect."

Years of rare wild animals in the prohibited medicine, and curative effect of limited synthetic substitutes become a TCM doctor is helpless choice. WenJianMin said, artificial tiger bone compared with the natural tiger bone, or far. Synthetic can only reproduce natural animal medicine in some effective chemical composition is known, but in the natural animal medicine what exactly effect, chemical composition and is not fully known to us.

Previously, heilongjiang university of Chinese medicine is a scientific research team published paper of bear bile powder pharmacological effects and the research progress of new dosage forms of said: with the deepening of the artificial bear bile exploration, in identifying characteristics, physical and chemical properties, chemical composition, pharmacological effect and content, etc., artificial bear bile has met the level of natural bear bile to a certain extent. Active ingredients of natural bear bile is not single, however, show after the composition and the pharmacological effects of is complex and changeable, artificial products technological level, and clinical effect can reach the level of the natural product, it is difficult to solve and evaluation.

In medicine in the point of view, this let go of the wild animal medicine, is the result of years of calling for, is also the national development of traditional Chinese medicine.

"Wildlife protection should take into account the development of Chinese medicine animal medicine, protect the resources of traditional Chinese medicine, to keep the root of traditional Chinese medicine, which can achieve the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese medicine." WenJianMin said.

Reasonable development and protection of animals can be

The method of traditional Chinese medicine (draft) is put forward: "encourage the development of artificial cultivated, support in accordance with the law in the protection of rare and endangered medicinal wildlife, breeding and its related research", the new revision of the wildlife protection act summit. Some conservationists fear that the move will stimulate the market demand, open enterprise, clinical use and other large-scale use of wild animal products gate? Then to accelerate and even lead to some species endangered or extinct?

Chen Jiguang thinks, state to protect rare wild animals, the purpose is to ensure that the sustainable use of animal resources. Actually there is no confliction between protection and rational utilization of, this also is the mainstream view animal protection organizations.

"From thousands of years the use of wild herbs resources in our country, as a result of medicinal materials collection and extinct or endangered wildlife only a few kinds of such as ginseng." Previously, China's endangered species scientific commission Meng Zhibin, director of the office in a media interview.

Reality proves that caused some endangered animals, just not as humans use animal medicine, but in the pursuit of material interests, economic interests, destroy the compression of wild animals living space.

Li Junde said the animal medicine and animal protection does not conflict. The wildlife protection act to protect the wild animals with farmed animals are two different concepts, should be to distinguish. Reasonable development and utilization of effectively, can more effectively protect the rare animals. Both can benefit the human health, and is advantageous to the special economic development, to prevent species extinction. "Rational utilization of farmed animals is the rapid and effective important way to solve the shortage of animal medicine."

WenJianMin thinks, let go of animal medicine, "instead, better able to protect wild animals. With significant curative effect of wild animal drugs, there has always been on the market demand. "Such as on the black market, tiger bone high profits, encouraged many people desperate to hunt these animals, it actually caused damage to the protection list of animals. If we change the way of thinking, countries allow farmed, tiger pharmaceutical public circulation, not the profits, perhaps animal protection laws to achieve its legislative intent".