South Korea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh

[fzaq]

The customs office has discovered 35 smuggling attempts since August of about 17,450 capsules disguised as stamina boosters, and some people believe them to be a panacea for disease, the statement said. The capsules of human flesh, however, contained superbacteria and other harmful ingredients.

The smugglers told customs officials they believed the capsules were ordinary stamina boosters and did not know the ingredients or manufacturing process. Fake and altered drug and food items have been a serious problem in China.

Ethnic Koreans from northeastern China who now live in South Korea were intending to use the capsules themselves or share them with other Korean-Chinese, a customs official said. They were being carried in luggage or sent by international mail.

The capsules were all confiscated, but no one has been punished because the amount was deemed small and they weren't intended for sale, said the customs official, who requested anonymity, citing department rules.

China's State Food and Drug Administration and its Health Ministry did not immediately respond to questions faxed to them today. But the problem of treatments made from dead foetuses or newborns has been recurrent.

Chinese media identify the northeastern provinces as the source of such products, especially Jilin which abuts North Korea.

The Jilin province food and drug safety agency is responsible for investigating the trade of such remains there.

Calls to the agency and to the information office of Jilin's Communist Party were not answered today.

The South Korean agency began investigating after receiving a tip a year ago. No sicknesses have been reported from ingesting the capsules.

 

[Avenger]

The customs office has discovered 35 smuggling attempts since August of about 17,450 capsules disguised as stamina boosters, and some people believe them to be a panacea for disease, the statement said. The capsules of human flesh, however, contained superbacteria and other harmful ingredients.

The smugglers told customs officials they believed the capsules were ordinary stamina boosters and did not know the ingredients or manufacturing process. Fake and altered drug and food items have been a serious problem in China.

Ethnic Koreans from northeastern China who now live in South Korea were intending to use the capsules themselves or share them with other Korean-Chinese, a customs official said. They were being carried in luggage or sent by international mail.

The capsules were all confiscated, but no one has been punished because the amount was deemed small and they weren't intended for sale, said the customs official, who requested anonymity, citing department rules.

China's State Food and Drug Administration and its Health Ministry did not immediately respond to questions faxed to them today. But the problem of treatments made from dead foetuses or newborns has been recurrent.

Chinese media identify the northeastern provinces as the source of such products, especially Jilin which abuts North Korea.

The Jilin province food and drug safety agency is responsible for investigating the trade of such remains there.

Calls to the agency and to the information office of Jilin's Communist Party were not answered today.

The South Korean agency began investigating after receiving a tip a year ago. No sicknesses have been reported from ingesting the capsules.

Which Chinese media? any link?

 

[Neil]

You either failed your economics or are going to fail it. Anyone with the least common sense understands that it is demand that creates supply, not the other way around.

ya i probably will....in India we are not taught about baby crushed to death chopped and made powder put in a capsule to worry about its demand and supply....but common sense and crap education are chinese copy and not the other way around....

if such a demand is there why they need chinese babies ....south korea doesnt reproduces or what...? please dont come up with an answer its cheap...!!!!

 

[fzaq]

Which Chinese media? any link?

Associated Press researcher Yu Bing contributed to this report from Beijing.

ask Yu Bing

 

[Avenger]

Associated Press researcher Yu Bing contributed to this report from Beijing.

ask Yu Bing

I mean which media.

 

[fzaq]

I mean which media.

it didnt include in the article

 

[Neil]

^^ yeah it realy does Ice berg...realy...!! heart wrenching man...!!

btw dude....do u how PISA came out with that kind of evaluation on India....it tested only 2 states of the 28 Indian states HP and TN...TN yes is pretty awesome in education...but no data on which part of the state was evaluated....on the other hand only shanghai which is a city was evaluated....so yeah hurtful really hurtful...!!

 

[Zebra]

List of medicines in traditional Chinese medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of medicines in traditional Chinese medicine.

Human parts and exreta :

Human body parts and excreta are currently used in TCM medicines and are included in its new textbooks and handbooks, such as licorice in human feces, dried human placenta, finger nails, child's urine, hair, and urinary sediments (Hominis Urinae Sedimentum, Ren Zhong Bai). The current consumption of human parts is considered cannibalism by some.[4] Other parts include pubic hair, flesh, blood, bone, semen, and menstrual blood. The classic Meteria medica (Bencao Gangmu) describes the use of 35 human body parts and extreta in medicines, such as bones, fingernail, hairs, dandruff, earwax, impurities on the teeth, feces, urine, sweat, organs, but most are no longer in use.

Also listed are human breath and the "soul of criminals that were hanged", which is considered under TCM to be a a material object resembling pine charcoal dug out of the ground beneath the body shortly after a hanged criminal died, but many are no longer in use.

There is considerable controversy about the ethics of use of criminals for body parts, using humans as commodities, and consumption of human body parts which some consider to be cannibalism.

Dried human placenta

Human placenta is believed to be sweet, salty, and warm, so it is dried and believed to treat impotence, infertility due to cold sperm or deficiency, and female infertility because of uterine coldness, chronic cough, asthma, and insomnia, and marketed as such.

Human feces and urine

The contemporary use of licorice in prepared human feces is known as "Radix glycyrrhizae Cum Excremento Hominis Praeparatum" (Ren Zhong Huang). Human urine sediment is called Hominis Urinae Sedimentum (ren zhong bai ). Both Ren Zhong Huang and Ren Zhong Bai are used in a belief that they can treat acute inflammatory conditions in oral cavity sores in children due to mycotic or fungal infection, and that their observations have confirmed this.

In Traditional Chinese medicine, human feces is used in a decoction of licorice. These feces-licorice decoctions have been found to have a profound difference in pharmacokinetics regarding glycyrrhizin as compared to not so decocted. Initial studies investigating traditional Chinese Medicine indicate that taking fecal bacterial products orally may improve on protective effects over taking it by injection to the body cavity, and that associated bacteria may produce an antitumor effect and an autoimmune boosting effect. Depending on preparation, human feces may protect against cell damage caused by hydrogen peroxide due a byproduct of fecal bacteria.

Human penis

According to Li Shizhen:

"the human penis is not a drug"


Human penis is believed under TCM to stop bleeding, and as with other TCM medicines, the basis for belief in its therapeutic effects is anecdotal and not based on the scientific method; Li Shizhen, author of the greatest pharmacological work in pre-modern China, the Bencao Gangmu materia medica, objected to use of human penis, but cited the anecdotal evidence and included it in the Bencao Gangmu, which is still a standard reference today.

 

[GromHellscream]

^^ yeah it realy does Ice berg...realy...!! heart wrenching man...!!

btw dude....do u how PISA came out with that kind of evaluation on India....it tested only 2 states of the 28 Indian states HP and TN...TN yes is pretty awesome in education...but no data on which part of the state was evaluated....on the other hand only shanghai which is a city was evaluated....so yeah hurtful really hurtful...!!

Don't make this kind of excuse here. The truth is that, Shanghai and Beijing as the most modern part of China, their local students are pretty uncompetitive in general, which can be fairly estimated as below the average level in education. These two special metropolis, thanks to a number of universities set there and the special policies given by the central goverment, their local students can be admitted to the same university, the same profession with even 100 points less in score (750 in total) than those outsiders. Think about it!

 

[Neil]

Don't make this kind of excuse here. The truth is that, Shanghai and Beijing as the most modern part of China, their local students are pretty uncompetitive in general, which can be fairly estimated as below the average level in education. These two special metropolis, thanks to a number of universities set there and the special policies given by the central goverment, their local students can be admitted to the same university, the same profession with even 100 points less in score (750 in total) than those outsiders. Think about it!

seriously dude....please read my post again and then comment...!! and it is off topic anyway chinese education ki jaiho....happy...!!