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RE: Jaguars (Panthera onca) are beginning to become targeted by wildlife traffickers as demand for their fangs increase in China
Yes i saw the use it for cancer, which seems a strange use for it but i see from Tigers in crisis they use the teeth as an anti inflammatory so that might be why the use it in cancer, maybe they think it boosts immunity or something like that??
Whereas Nat Geo has documented a much more broader use for teeth
That being said its a poor excuse to kill an animal just for their fangs!!
I think anyone caught trading in this should have all their teeth pulled and mouths sown shut and see how long it takes for them to starve like the poor cats when they can’t kill their prey due to lack of fangs.
The Nat Geo article was pretty interesting! I never really dove deep into what the different parts were used for, because I honest don't believe that it even works at all, so like a lot of other things it's all about placebo and belief, not the components in the "medicine".
I agree @valth being a stalwart of western medicine, i find a lot of this stuff pure and utter quackery at best.
Ok i grant it that there have been many important discoveries taken from different animal species which western medicine has derived treatments from, but they have to undergo the rigor of phased clinical trials to prove they actually work. Secondly they dont mass kill animlas purely for the purpose of these so called remedies.
But you had peeked my interest in just reading around the topic a bit more and i thought id share with you some of the findings. Glad you like the Nat Geo article.
Yeah, that is true. And rhino horns, tiger fangs etc. has obviously been tested for the medical properties, and found to not have any. I think it is very nice to get ideas and inspiration from eastern medicine, but if they are proven to not work, or even be harmful, then we need to accept this fact.