Rhino horns have only pharmacological properties such as buffalo horns, ox horns ...

Many people believe that using rhino horn can cure cancer. However, scientists claim, there is no evidence that rhino horn cure cancer.

Rhinoceros are 'massacred' everywhere because of being mistaken as a medicinal god

According to international experts, Vietnam and China are currently considered the two largest rhino horn markets in the world. In Vietnam, rhino horn is used not only as a kind of medicine to cure diseases, from drunkenness to cancer, but also to show social class.

Many people have seen rhino horn as a " cure " for cancer and plunged into buying for a blind faith.

Therefore, the number of rhinos killed in South Africa has increased rapidly in recent years.

According to data from the International Fund for Nature Protection (WWF), in South Africa in 2007 only 13 individual rhinos were killed, this figure reached 1,215 individuals in 2014. In the first half of 2015 , at least 749 rhino individuals were killed in South Africa.

In India, between 2010 and 2014, about 107 individual rhinos were killed. These are the two countries with the largest number of rhinos in Africa and Asia. According to estimates, currently in South Africa there are about 20,000 individuals (including white and black rhinos) and in India there are about 2,900 individual rhino horns.

Rhinoceros are at risk of extinction because of the misperception of the human "medicinal spirit".(Illustration).

Every day, South Africa loses more than 3 individual rhinos. The last Vietnamese rhino individual has been killed to get the horn in 2010. Conservation experts around the world warn that rhino species in the world will be extinct in 6 years if massacre Rhino is not prevented in time.

Research by the International NGO, TRAFFIC, shows that 90% of rhino horns sold in Vietnam are fake.

Both West and Eastern Medicine oppose .

GS.BS. Nguyen Chan Hung - Chairman of the Vietnam Cancer Society shared that many medical researchers in the world have confirmed that rhino horn powder does not work to treat cancer.

'Patients listen to doctors and modern formal methods by cancer if they know they will heal soon. Blind use of rhino horn will make patients delay in treatment, ' said Dr. Hung.

In the aspect of Oriental medicine, Dr. Truong Thi Ngoc Lan, Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Traditional Medicine, affirmed that rhino horn in Eastern medicine belongs to the group of drugs that have the effect of detoxifying, completely replaced by Other simple drugs cost less and work better.

And BS. Meritorious physician Le Hung, President of Ho Chi Minh City Eastern Medicine Association, encouraged to put rhino horn out of the drug list to partly avoid misperceptions about the effect of rhino horn.

Dr. CKI Tran Huu Vinh - Head of Traditional Medicine Management Department, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health affirmed that using rhino horn in some cases is misleading to be effective when there are signs of symptom relief. reduction.

'However, it is not a cure but only a symptom of deterioration. This will be extremely dangerous because it prevents doctors from diagnosing the disease correctly and providing timely treatment methods ' - shared by Dr. Vinh.

Mr. Le Ngoc Thanh - Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy, said that rhino horn is a medicinal taste, and is often contained in remedies and never used exclusively (exclusively).

Rhino horns are just a drug that works like buffalo horns and other horns, but traffickers of rhino horns have been used to make the price of rhino horn much higher than the true medical value. Mr. Thanh said.