Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus), one of the bear species most commonly farmed for bile. Photo by Guérin Nicolas, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bear bile has been taken from wild bears in numerous Asian countries for use in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that opportunistic individuals ...

Dr Feng will warn the World Traditional Chinese Medicine Congress conference, however, that opponents face a hard battle with traditionalists who remain convinced that real bear bile can help cure ...

An ancient Chinese remedy for rashes, fevers and other health problems, bear bile appears on the shelves of medicine shops throughout East Asia, as well as in Asian communities overseas. To ...

While bear bile farming remains legal in China, the International Union for Conservation of Nature says the most effective conservation measure for moon bears (officially called ‘Asiatic black bears’) ...

The Europeans recently announced a successful operation to remove fake COVID-19 medicines from markets worldwide Traditional Chinese medicine believes bear bile can cure COVID-19 There have been ...

BEIJING - China's top traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) chief defended medicines made from bear bile citing a lack of an effective substitute. Wang Guoqiang, vice-minister of health and director ...

AN ABUSED bear dubbed the “saddest in the world” was kept locked up in a tiny cage and forced to vomit so it could be used for a bizarre medicine. The Asiatic black bear, named Soi, tri… ...

China has 68 legal bear farms with more than 10,000 bears, 6,000 to 8,000 of which are old and large enough to undergo bile extraction operations, according to Fang.

He said those farms have a total of about 7,000 bears. Most of the bears farmed for bile in China are Asiatic black bears, which the government lists as an endangered species. Environmentalists ...

Health Chinese herbal medicines contained toxic mix Ingredents from poisonous plants, endangered animals and allergens detected in products ...