Bear bile has no healing effect

The video will air on central and local television channels from June, describing the doctor examining a patient who used bear bile to cure illness, but the disease did not go away.

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Vietnam Center for Nature Education (ENV) has just completed and launched the second short propaganda film in 2011 to raise awareness of people, aiming to reduce demand and consumption status. bear bile in Vietnam. According to ENV, the propaganda video is expected to be broadcast on central and local TV channels from June 2011 describing a doctor visiting a patient. Before admission, the patient used bear bile to cure the illness, but the disease did not improve.

Therefore, the monks recommended bear bile patients are not medicinal and through that, he called on the community if there was a disease, seek professional medical methods rather than believe in using bear bile. Previously, the results of the research program conducted by ENV had more than 3,000 people living in 3 big cities: Hanoi (Northern region), Da Nang (Central region), and Ho Chi Minh City. Minh (southern region) to analyze the motivation of bear bile consumers shows that: 22% of respondents used bear bile, of which Hanoi is a city with a high proportion of bear bile users. most (35%), followed by Ho Chi Minh City (16%) and Da Nang (15%). Both men and women use bear bile, but the proportion of men is higher (29%) while women account for 17% .

Many people still believe that bear bile is capable of healing.(Illustration)

Notably, most people using bear bile to treat specific diseases (73%) and few people use bear bile for entertainment purposes (14%). Women tend to use bear bile to cure a specific disease (88%), while men use bear bile for many different purposes, including entertainment purposes. The survey results also show that the trend of using bear bile increases with age.

Recently, illegal captivity of bears and wildlife in Vietnam is increasing due to the development of the domestic consumption market and the decline in the number of wild animals in the wild due to accidents. hunting and trading.

There has been a situation where Vietnam is a transit, smuggling ivory, rhino horn and other wildlife products from South Africa and other African countries. The authorities have also discovered Hai Phong port as an important transit point for ivory shipments originating from East African countries, and turtle shipments, pangolin scales originating from Indonesia. These shipments were all suspected of being transported to China after transit at Hai Phong port.