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In Guangzhou, China, there are several shops selling Chinese herbal medicines, one of which is puffed fish gills. The sharp decline in global manta rays means that puffed gills may soon disappear from these markets. (New York Times website)
Original title: US media: The gills of the puffed fish become China's "panacea" or cause the manta rays to be exterminated
Reference News Network reported on January 8 that the Qingping Market in Guangzhou, China, is one of the largest chinese herbal medicine markets in China, providing raw materials for natural remedies in traditional Chinese medicine, and it can also be said that it is a place where vendors sell dehydrated and dismembered animal remains, and some people sell drugs made from snake parts.
According to the New York Times website reported on January 7, in those labyrinth-like stalls, there are bags of puffed fish (that is, manta rays) gills, this majestic big fish is a close relative of sharks, and cartilage tissue is the organ they use to filter plankton in the seawater when they swim. Vendors claim that the bulging gill is a panacea that can treat modern diseases, increase milk production, remove blood poison, treat chickenpox and tonsillitis, and help smokers clear their lungs, and the efficacy has been tested for a long time, selling for about $75 a pound.