Bear bile has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years, with the first reference appearing in an eighth century medical text prescribing bear bile for maladies like ...

A bear in Vietnam’s northeastern Haiphong region had been kept captive for years, her bile harvested in painful and invasive ways – and the farmer was finally giving her up. The team found a ...

World Animal Protection rescued the Asiatic black bear from an illegal bile farm in Vietnam, where he was found "in a narrow, steel cage," which made it hard for him to move around freely Nicholas ...

World Animal Protection/ One Touch Connections Chinh lived a small indoor cage at a bear bile farm in Vietnam for over 20 years On May 10, FOUR PAWS, supported by World Animal Protection and the ...

CHINATOWN, NY — Bear bile worth thousands of dollars and thought by some to be a cure for the coronavirus was seized in at least eight Chinatown traditional medicine stores, the New York State ...

Languages: English, Spanish Animal welfare activists in Vietnam have rescued a female Asiatic black bear that was being kept in a small cage and had previously been abused for "painful" bile ...

The bear, named Hai Chan, was rescued in November after being held captive for ten years as a bile bear. Stomach bile is illegally harvested from living bears in parts of Southeast Asia ...

Bear bile is an ingredient in traditional Asian medicine that's used to treat everything from hangovers to cancer, and most recently COVID-19. Its key component, ursodeoxycholic acid, has been ...