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Scales account for about 20 percent of the animal's weight. When threatened, pangolins curl into a ball, using the scales as armor to defend against predators. The scales can cost more than $3,000/kg on the black market. [2] In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the scales are used for a variety of
Confiscated black market pangolin scales, which are in high demand in traditional Chinese medicine, [55] set to be destroyed by authorities in Cameroon in 2017. Pangolins are in high demand in southern China and Vietnam because their scales are believed to have medicinal properties in traditional Chinese and Vietnamese medicine. [56]
Other pangolin body parts are also used in traditional Chinese medicine. 71% of the TCM practitioners interviewed in a 2020 study believed that pangolin scales could be substituted by other ingredients "in at least some, if not all, treatments". [17] Local people in eastern Nepal consider pangolin scales as good-luck charms. [18]
Three top Chinese pharmaceutical companies, which are backed by top global banks, are using endangered animal parts in their medicines, according to an investigation by an environmental protection ...
The pangolin scales, which have an estimated price of around 40,000 baht ($1,129) per kilogram, are suspected to have been brought from Malaysia to Thailand, to be transported to Laos.
Officials say they seized and destroyed the scales in a stand against illegal wildlife trafficking. Nigeria burns $1.4m-worth of pangolin scales in anti-trafficking stand Skip to main content
Yunnan Baiyao Group Co., Ltd is a Chinese pharmaceutical company that develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products (mainly traditional Chinese medicine) and the wholesale and retail of pharmaceutical products.
Scales of pangolins, Chuan Shan Jia [Manitis Squama], are used in traditional Chinese medicine. [26] is classified as salty and cool and as entering the Liver and Stomach channels. It is traditionally used in Chinese medicine to disperse blood stasis (for promoting menstruation and lactation), reducing swelling and promoting discharge of pus ...