[e-drug] RFI animal parts

[Beverley Snell <bev@burnet.edu.au>]

E-drug: RFI animal parts
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Dear e-druggers
I wonder if you can help.  I have exhausted all the references I can 
find without success.

One of my jobs is working with Radio Australia SE Asia presenters in 
the preparation and presentation of health topics in their own 
languages.   We have covered the usual things - malaria, diarrhoea, 
dengue, TB, rational use of drugs,  safe injections, HIV, smoking 
etc.  etc

The presenters are very keen to look at traditional medicines and in 
particular and separately to look at the use of animal parts so 
people can be discouraged from using them.

I am having great difficulty in getting any information about the 
active constituents of anything except bear's bile which contains 
ursodeoxycholic acid.

We are keen to know therapeutic constituents (if any) in eg tiger 
penis, tiger bone, rhino horn, etc in order to approach the subject 
better.  Is tiger bone any different from any other bone?  Is rhino 
horn any different from toenails?

Best wishes and thanks for all your ongoing support.
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Beverley Snell
Centre for International Health
Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research & Public Health
GPO Box 2284, Melbourne 3001 Australia

Telephone 613 9282 2115 / 9282 2275
Fax 61 3 9282 2144  or  9282 2100
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email <bev@burnet.edu.au>

Site: Alfred Medical Research & Education Precinct (AMREP),
corner Punt & Commercial Roads, Prahran 3181
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