This document discusses the use of endangered animals in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and the negative impacts of the practice. It notes that while 13,000 medicinal materials are listed in TCM, 12% come from animals, some of which are now endangered. These include elephant ivory and skin, tiger bones and penis, rhinoceros horn, pangolin scales and fetuses, Asiatic black bear bile, monkey bones and blood, antelope and saiga horns, manta ray flesh, snake skin and venom, deer musk, sea horse, turtle plastron and shell, and shark fins. The document argues that TCM treatments using endangered animals lack scientific evidence and contribute to poaching,

1. The Dark Face of
Traditional Chinese
Medicine (TCM)

2. «
According to old Asian
myths, you can gain an
animal’s characteristics by
ingesting them
»

3. 13 000kind of medecinal material listed in TCM
85%
botanicals
12%
animals
0,01%
minerals
36
different animal species

4. But some animals are listed
as endangered species on the
IUCN Red List.
Which mean protected by
laws and forbidden to kill.

5. FAKES PROMISES AND MYTHS
Aphrodisiac properties
Sexual Benefits (fertility, performances, erectil dysfunction)
Cancer
Dectection of poisons
Joint pain
Treatment of hallucination, demoniac possesion
Fever
Hanghover
Magical values
Epilepsy
Longevity
…

6. The following slides attract our attention on
12 endangered animals used in the Traditional Chinese Medecine
(TCM).
Because we ALL need to open our eyes and be aware of all the
involvement : poaching, black market, violence, torture, non official
factory farming, illegal traffic…
TCM is not critized – only treatment using endangered animals
especially for which no scientific evidence exist !
Or at least use TCM for a relevant reason: for instance, planting a tree
is good for human sexuality. Or picking-up waste serve masculine
virility or whatever 
/! Some pictures can hurt but this is the reality

8. «
The only thing necessary for the triumph of Evil
is that good men do nothing
»Or watch without doing anything
Edmund Burke

9. Elephant

10. IVORY & SKIN & FLESH

11. Tiger

12. BONES & PENIS

13. BONES & PENIS

14. Rhinoceros

15. HORN

16. Pangolina

17. SCALES & FOETUS

18. Asiatic Black Bear

19. BILE

20. Monkey

21. BONES & BLOOD

22. Antilopa
Saïga

23. HORN

24. Manta Ray

25. FLESH

26. Snake

27. SKIN & VENOM

28. Deer

29. MUSK

30. Sea Horse

31. DEHYDRATED
SEAHORSE

32. Turtle

33. PLASTRON / SHELL

34. Shark

35. FINS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_finning