In the impression of many people, creatures like "toads" should be extremely ugly and useless. Some people even think that this animal is very disgusting and extremely unwelcome. Especially when taking children to play in the wild, when you see a toad, you will often be frightened and cry, as everyone knows, the toad is full of treasures, including its toad clothes, a pound can sell for five thousand yuan, why, its toad clothes will be so expensive? And, what about the toad clothes that can't be found in the wild?
What kind of creature is a toad?
Toad is also called toad, it is an amphibian, and the biggest difference with frogs is that the appearance of toads is covered with a lot of pimples, poisonous glands, in the mainland toad is mainly divided into two categories, one is the Chinese toad, the other is the black orbital toad two species.
Toads can live not only on land, but also in water. The pores in their skin are permeable, and because there is no amniotic membrane and shell to protect them from birth, this also makes the toad extremely sensitive to the outside environment.
Usually, they like to hide in dark and damp places and like to eat all kinds of pests. In the winter, most toads will choose to lurk in the mud under the water or in the grass to overwinter, from ancient times to the present, toads are a collection of medicinal, health care, food in one, so known as "toad treasure", has a high economic value.
Wild toad skins are worth five thousand per pound
Many people know that toad crisp is precious in Chinese herbal medicine, but they do not know that toad clothing is more valuable. So, what exactly is toad clothes? The toad coat is the keratinous coat film that the toad has shed, and can also be understood as the skin of the toad. From June to September every year, toads have a habit of molting.
They like to molt in the dead of night, but also choose to molt when hunger is unbearable. When winter comes, in order to better survive the winter, the toad will also swallow the toad's clothes into the abdomen. So, what is the value of toad clothes?
1. Medicinal value
In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", there is such a written record, the toad clothing is called "toad treasure", which has the miracle effect of straightening the solid and fighting cancer, and the folk use the toad clothing to cure many kinds of difficult diseases. Sun Simiao said: "Toad (cloth), remove evil swelling, God also." Elder Sun, a barefoot doctor who has lived in remote mountainous areas for a long time, said: "In the medicine of the motherland, toad clothes are valuable high-grade medicinal materials, and using it as a medicine primer can be described as a medicine to get rid of the disease. ”
2. The ornamental value of artworks
There are many people who like to collect works of art who think that toad clothes are very good materials, and they use this material as a famous painting to create a lifelike. In addition, after in-depth processing by special technology, the art of toad clothes has a high ornamental value. For example, it is also a famous painting, but if there is a toad material in the painting, then its price will be more than ten times higher than the price of ordinary paintings.
In the current market, the price of a pound of toad clothes is as high as five thousand yuan, a toad's toad clothes weigh only 0.3 grams, if a pound of toad clothes, at least 1,000 toads are needed. Especially some high-end high-quality toad clothes, its price of one pound can be sold to at least 20,000 yuan or more, some broken is not a complete inferior toad clothes, its price is also about five thousand yuan per kilogram.
Why can't I find toad clothes in the wild?
Many netizens can't help but say: "Since toad clothes are so expensive, it is better to directly throw away the work of thousands of yuan in your hand and go to the wild to find toad clothes, so that it is easier to get rich." "In fact, the toad clothes in the wild are very difficult to find, in other words, it is almost impossible to find the wild toad clothes, so why is it?"
1. Eat it yourself
Zhang Zhongjing once said: "Toads are all picked up, clothes do not appear, Qiye." What does this mean? In simple terms, toads are easy to spot, but toads are hard to spot. As we said earlier, toads like to molt in the dead of night, and without a noisy environment, there is no human to disturb them. And when hungry, they will eat their own molting skin. Even if you haven't finished eating, with the wind and rain and the sun, it is difficult to find when looking during the day.
2. Melt when it meets water
Toad clothes is a translucent substance, so it is difficult to identify with the naked eye, because toads like to live in water, even if they are not eaten by themselves, when they encounter river water or other liquids, toad clothes will be dissolved, so it is difficult to find.
3. The molting period is very special
We know that toads molt at night, so when exactly? Around 10 p.m. and around 3 a.m., the toads molt. In these two time periods, few people will generally appear in the wild, so in daily life, everyone cannot find toad clothes.
Mr. Wang from Hubei Province said: "I am an outdoor adventure enthusiast, and I often go on wild expeditions with my friends. When I learned that toad clothes were worth a lot, I also tried to find toad clothes many times, but they were all fruitless. We also hired professional toad catchers, all to no avail. I still hope that everyone will spend their minds on work and study, and don't waste energy and energy. "
Is captive breeding toads promising?
So, since the toad coat cannot be caught in the wild, can artificial breeding be realized? In fact, for the artificial breeding of toads, its prospects are very impressive, one is that the toad is full of treasures, and the other is that the investment cost of the breeding scale is not very high, and there is no need to worry about the toads cannot be sold.
In fact, the difficulty of toad breeding is extremely high, because the toad is very sensitive to the growth environment, even if you master the breeding technology, you will face other problems, especially before the toad grasshopper clothes have become moribund, at that time all the breeding costs will become a bamboo basket to draw water empty.
In recent years, in order to pursue huge interests, many people have begun to wantonly destroy the ecological environment and over-catch toads. You know, toads eat pests, and they play a very important role in nature. Once the toad goes extinct, upsetting the balance of the food chain, the consequences are unimaginable. From now on, we should strengthen the protection of toads and save wild toads from being caught, so that we can live in this beautiful home of the earth for a long time.