Chapter 1127: Live Extraction of Bear Bile
Getting out of the car, Ye Chen felt that Huang Xiaowei's feet were a little weak, which may be due to the uncomfortable cause of motion sickness, Ye Chen asked her to stop first, drink saliva, and then take a few breaths of fresh air.
Huang Xiaowei's expression was much better, Ye Chen saw that outside the mountain forest, there were walls made of stones and bricks, and at the gate, Ye Chen saw that there was also a sign written in Vietnamese.
This is the meaning of the Vietnam Oriental Medicine Industrial Park. Ye Chen was thinking about it when the female translator came over and said.
With the help of this female translator, other Vietnamese characters that you can't understand can ask her.
Under the guidance of the instructor in front, I went to this simple Oriental medicine industry. As soon as they entered the room, Ye Chen and the others heard a scream like a ghost crying wolf.
Anyone who has ever heard this sound knows that it is a black bear howling. If it was any other time, I am afraid that these people would have run away and left.
However, since it is here in the industrial park, it is definitely not the black bears in the mountains and forests outside.
Sure enough, Ye Chen took Liao Bingxue's hand and followed the guide inside, he had already seen one after another iron rooms that were separated, and in each iron room, there was a black bear of five or six hundred catties locked in the iron cage.
The black bears felt dirty, and their eyes were blank, and they looked worse than the ones in the zoo.
In fact, when Ye Chen saw these black bears, he had already guessed what this so-called Dongyi Industrial Park was?
"Ye Chen, is it for us to see the animals in the zoo?" asked Huang Xiaowei.
Ye Chen glanced at her, and then said, "Zoo, I'm afraid that they are better off alive than dead!"
Huang Xiaowei and other ordinary people naturally don't know, but everyone who studies Chinese medicine knows that black bear bile has a lot of medicinal uses. Therefore, since ancient times, bile has been used as a precious medicine.
In ancient times, hunters would hunt black bears, and after killing the black bears, the bear bile would be taken out and used as traditional Chinese medicine.
In modern times, because the number of black bears has begun to decrease, it is no longer possible to kill black bears and take out bear bile as in ancient times.
After all, in that case, each black bear can only take out one bear bile, which will be used again in the future, and can only hunt other black bears.
In this case, North Korea, one of the East Asian countries that is very dependent on bear bile, began to take bear bile alive.
How to get bear bile alive?
That is, instead of killing the black bear at one time and taking out the bear bile, the black bear is locked in a cage, and then the guò foreign object enters the black bear's body, and the bile in the black bear's body is taken out through the guò tube.
In this way, it is like a blood-sucking syringe entering the blood vessels of the human body, and when it is needed, part of the blood in the blood vessels is withdrawn.
Of course, this kind of blood sucking is nothing, at most, after a while, the human blood will come back again.
However, like smoking black bear bile alive, that kind of pain, I am afraid that I don't need to experience it, as long as I look at it, I feel scared.
Ye Chen didn't explain, and he didn't need to explain, under the leadership of the instructor, they had already seen the staff in the industrial park start to perform a live extract of bear bile for the black bear wearing 'iron armor'.
When Ye Chen and Liao Bingxue looked over, they saw a long thin tube, and then went through a hole in the black bear's iron armor that couldn't struggle in the narrow iron cage, and then passed through the thick skin of the black bear, entered the black bear's body, confirmed that it entered the black bear's bile, and then began to suck the dark green bile outside.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" When the screams of the black bear came, not only the colors of Liao Bingxue and the two goddesses changed greatly, but the other people also looked a little different.
Those Western reporters were scolding and started filming with their cameras again.
For such live bile, both here in Vietnam, but also in China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and other Asian countries to suck black bear bile.
However, it is really as Ye Chen said, every once in a while, the black bear has to be extracted by these staff like this, and it is really worse than death.
If you die, then it's okay, it's a hundred, and you don't have to be tortured anymore. However, they are not allowed to die at all, but they are pumped out of the black bear bile at a time.
In China, there were also a lot of such black bear bile bases. Among them, there are in the northeast, as well as in the major provinces in the south, some large, some private and small.
China is a big country in traditional Chinese medicine, and bear bile, in the eyes of many ordinary people, is a very rare Chinese medicinal material, I am afraid that in the eyes of those people, it is more precious than pangolin scales.
Now on the market, the best pangolin scales are more than ten yuan a gram, but if it is processed black bear bile, after being made into black bear bile powder, the price is one or two hundred yuan a gram for the most common ones, and three or four hundred yuan a gram for the most expensive ones, which is about the same price as the price of gold.
It is precisely because of this that even Ye Chen felt that it was a very cruel practice of extracting bile, and when Ye Chen disagreed with it very much, there were still many people doing it, and a large part of the Chinese medicine doctors actually supported it.
At this point, Ye Chen can understand why those Chinese medicine doctors support it, precisely because there are huge profits in it, which is related to their personal interests.
Now Ye Chen saw that the black bear was inserted into the body by the long straw, piercing the bear bile and taking out part of the bear bile, when the black bear was desperately struggling and screaming, there was nothing he could do.
Ye Chen didn't want to watch it anymore, Liao Bingxue and Huang Xiaowei didn't need to look at it, they felt scared when they thought about it.
I thought it would be cruel to see those Vietnamese slaughtering pangolins like that that day, but I didn't expect that there are even more cruel ones now.
Ye Chen found that the people here, except for those reporters who were a little unbearable, most of the other Chinese medicine doctors who participated in the competition still looked like that, as if they had long been used to it.
Ye Chen also knows very well that Chinese medicine has great advantages in treating diseases and saving people, but it is very cruel in some aspects.
For example, to deprive pangolin scales of Chinese medicine, and now to take black bear bile alive, he feels that these are the dregs of traditional Chinese medicine and should be discarded as much as possible.
As for the medicinal use of pangolins and the medicinal use of black bear bile, in fact, in Ye Chen's opinion, it can also be replaced by other yam herbs with similar medicinal effects, and there is no need to torture these black bears inhumanely as now.
"Dear friends, there are 500 black bears in our industrial park, with an annual output of nearly nine tons, and Vietnam's local bear bile powder can be produced by itself, and there is no need to import it from China and other countries. The person in charge of the industrial park was proud to say to the contestants and reporters.
At this time, Ye Chen saw that the Japanese and Qi Mingna came over again, looked at him and asked with a smile, "Mr. Ye, I don't know what you think about these?"
"It's cruel, I'm sure that even if these black bears survive when they have their bile taken alive once, they will 100% get liver cancer and die of all kinds of injuries. Ye Chen said.
If the gallbladder of normal animals is punctured, they will be prone to liver cancer, especially these black bears.