South Korea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh

[niggles]

SOUTH Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered human flesh and is strengthening customs inspections, officials said today.

The capsules were made in northeastern China from dead babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, a statement from the Korea Customs Service said.

Customs officials refused to disclose where the babies came from or who made the capsules, citing possible diplomatic friction with Beijing. Chinese officials have been cracking down on the production of such capsules since last year.

The customs office has discovered 35 smuggling attempts since August of about 17,450 capsules disguised as stamina boosters, and some people believe them to be a panacea for disease, the statement said. The capsules of human flesh, however, contained superbacteria and other harmful ingredients.

The smugglers told customs officials they believed the capsules were ordinary stamina boosters and did not know the ingredients or manufacturing process. Fake and altered drug and food items have been a serious problem in China.

Ethnic Koreans from northeastern China who now live in South Korea were intending to use the capsules themselves or share them with other Korean-Chinese, a customs official said. They were being carried in luggage or sent by international mail.

The capsules were all confiscated, but no one has been punished because the amount was deemed small and they weren't intended for sale, said the customs official, who requested anonymity, citing department rules.

China's State Food and Drug Administration and its Health Ministry did not immediately respond to questions faxed to them today. But the problem of treatments made from dead foetuses or newborns has been recurrent.

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[vual]

this thread ties in nicly with:

http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=31970&hl=&fromsearch=1

Edited May 8, 2012 by vual

[vual]

check this out:

www.springerlink.com/index/r3371v1625353774.pdf

(nails, placenta, urine, bone, flesh, blood, menstrual blood, seminal fluid, and the penis)

Dont think its fake, was your article you posted before fake?

Jing Bao Nie’s essay offers a historical and ethical study of the traditional Chinese practice of “human drugs,” i.e., materials from the human body. Although the majority of Chinese medicinals are of vegetable origins(herbs), animal and human drugs have also been used by Chinesephysicians and been recorded in Chinese pharmacology since the secondcentury. In particular, thirty five human drugs are included in the greatpharmacological work Bencao Gangmu (1597)by Li Shi Zhen.

This work is believed to reach the qualitative and quantitative climax in thedevelopment of Chinese materia medica. Among the fifty

two volumes of the Bencao Gangmu, Li devoted the entire last volume to human drugs.These include hair, pubes, fingernails, urine, blood, bones, placenta, gall,flesh, and so on. Traditional Chinese physicians believe that, for example,male pubic hair can treat snakebite, the husband’s pubic hair can resolvethe wife’s difficult delivery, and the placenta can ameliorate impotenceand infecundity.

 

http://www.scribd.co...ucian-Bioethics

But in regards to this exact case of "BABY'S"...

China Daily has more:

It was not reported which hospital or city in China the team visited.

Phone calls to Customs in Jilin went unanswered on [August 9].

A professor at the Third Hospital of Jilin University said he has never heard of such cases in his two-decade career.

“It’s hard to comment, because it looks like a rumor,” said the professor, surnamed Zhang. “This is impossible from my professional judgement.”

Three traditional Chinese medicine experts and obstetrics doctors in Beijing and Shanghai contacted by China Daily said they have never heard of such cases and it seemed senseless.

It has long been a folk tradition to eat placentas in China. Placentas are believed to make up sperm and support the sufficiency of the blood in traditional Chinese medicine. In China, placentas belong to the mothers of the newborns. Medical institutions will handle a placenta if a mother gives it up or donates it. Nobody is allowed to sell or buy placentas according to the regulation from the Ministry of Health.

 

Edited May 8, 2012 by vual

[Zen Peddler]

The chinese have a proverb that says its ok to eat anything that has its back to the sun.

[mutant]

wtf is that photo? man, I have been trolled 4 sure