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2006-07-23 08:16:45 · 4 answers · asked by samraebaby9705 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Folklore, superstition, tradition...
See the following on the second page at this link:
http://home.globalcrossing.net/~brendel/tiger.html
The use of tiger parts in traditional healing remedies has been traced back to more than 1,000 years in Chinese culture. The practices have now spread to Korea, japan, India and other areas where significant Asian populations exist. Renewed interest in traditional cures, particularly among the Asian cultures, has accelerated consumption of tiger parts and poaching to fill the demand for this trade has pushed three of the remaining species of tiger close to extinction. Nearly every part of the tiger has been reported to have healing properties by Chinese medical practitioners and in Chinese folklore.
2006-07-23 08:28:26 · answer #1 · answered by Chris S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, superstition and legends play a major role in how we treat animals. In some cultures it is believed that strength and virility can be gained by the consumption or use of certain parts of some animals. The tiger is not the least of which such practices are perpetrated on. The elephant and the rhinoceros have both been victimized for millenia by mankind as objects of great power and we have nearly destroyed them in the need to make ourselves more worthy in the bedroom as well as more powerful and fearsome in battle. Some cultures used to practice the eating of an opponents heart after defeating him in battle so that the gods would bestow upon the victor all of that mans power and ability. Not a very happy or civilized way of behaving in todays "enlightened" world.
2006-07-23 15:31:29 · answer #2 · answered by Winter Wolf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason that most so-called folk remedies are used: somebody thought it might work and tried it, and the patient got better, even though the remedy might well have had nothing to do with it. Which is why drugs licensed for use in the US are subjected to rigorous tests, including double-blind tests, before being allowed on the market.
2006-07-23 15:26:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
bc my fellow Asians are crazy! KOreans and Chinese think tiger bones can cure many diseases like headaches, cancer and other crazy things. ITs like how africans think the rhino horn can cure headaches. I think its supersition in many cases.
Plus I am a botanist and I study crazy things like this for cures.
2006-07-25 09:57:43 · answer #4 · answered by KrazyK784 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋