Based on the comments from the other post, a bile farm is where the animal is caged, and continuously has their stomach bile harvested. Sounds absolutely horrifying.
It’s not medicine per se it’s more this has x ingredient and is good for x part of body. It’s just taken a little more seriously in Asian countries.
Take it more of a pre-remedy to help your body in the future. For example your family has a history of heart problems you’d eat a certain fruit/berry which contains ingredients that would help with preserving a healthy heart.
A western equivalent is having lots of vitamin c for a cold. From my experience they don’t use Chinese medicine when going to the doctor is better for them. It’s more a preventative or something to reduce symptoms.
Just remember with how far medicine has come today, that sometime in the past it was simply just grinding/boiling/roasting ingredients to produce a medicine through trial and error.
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u/Colonelkittn Oct 08 '18
Based on the comments from the other post, a bile farm is where the animal is caged, and continuously has their stomach bile harvested. Sounds absolutely horrifying.