“Sand pig” is just trash
On May 28, Nguyen Thi Thu Hien (residing in Tuy Hoa City, Phu Yen) said that her family is currently waiting for a delegation from Ho Chi Minh City to come to her house to see the 1.1kg “pig sand” and agree on the price to buy and sell.
Ms. Hien said that the “pig sand” she was keeping was discovered 3 days ago (May 25), at this time her family bought a wild boar in Phu Hoa district (Phu Yen) to slaughter for meat. Cleaning the stomach of this pig discovered a hard, heavy object in the stomach.
What is said to be “sand pig” was found by people in Phu Yen.
Seeing a foreign object in her stomach, Hien washed it and observed it like “pig sand” as she had read in books and newspapers, so she put it in the refrigerator. After that, she took a picture and posted it on social networks, and many people asked to buy it, the current highest price is 500 million dong. “They made an appointment from Ho Chi Minh City to see the “pig sand” and agree on the price,” Hien said.
According to the seller of the sow, this sow is a wild boar, raised by her for more than 10 years, but now it is old, so it has been sold for slaughter. This object is said to be “sand pig” with a crescent shape, a light scent, like the smell of traditional medicine, outside there are many black hairs, hard and quite heavy in the hand.
Dr. Nguyen Que Coi, a former officer of the Institute of Livestock Production, said that this found object was part of the indigestible raw fiber food plus the animal’s bile.
Herbalist Vu Quoc Trung, former President of the Vietnam Association of Oriental Medicine, confirmed that there may be a mistake, but in Oriental medicine, there has never been a record of a drug that is an object taken from a pig as described. .
Herbalist Vu Quoc Trung said that in Eastern medicine, there is a medicine called cow king. There are thousands of buffaloes and cows, one that has a lump of stones in the bile, which is good for people with cerebral vascular accident. Thanks to the effect of this ingredient, people make the pill An Cung Nguoi Hoang Hoan. Nowadays, with the development of medicine, people can artificially synthesize this substance without having to search for such rare cows anymore.
No scientific studies yet
Dr. Nguyen Que Coi said that sharks or sperm whales that live in the sea sometimes have children in their stomachs with objects similar to this. This is an indigestible part of the shark’s food, leaving behind a lump called a locus, which is more expensive than the gold used to make high-class perfumes.
Initially, when removed from the fish belly, this lump has an extremely unpleasant smell, but the longer it is left, the more fragrant it will be. People extract the substance in this object to make a very expensive perfume. As for the pig, so far there has been no record of it, if it has no value in Eastern medicine to cure diseases, it certainly has no value in terms of use. The fact that someone spends millions, even billions of dollars to buy, should also be considered.
Dr. Nguyen Kiem Son, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, said that in the recorded documents people have heard of ambergris which is a gray waxy substance formed in the digestive system of sperm whales. After the fish are discharged into the sea, the ambergris can spend thousands of years lying in the deep sea or drifting ashore.
Ambergris is likened to the frankincense of the sea, becoming something that perfume connoisseurs crave. The reason is because the inside of ambergris contains a special chemical, which plays a role in stabilizing the smell, helping other scents in the perfume stay longer. Ambrein, a chemical component of ambergris, is used in the perfumery industry to stimulate the sense of smell and prolong the scent.
“However, the finding of ambergris blocks so far is very vague. There is no document describing exactly what the ambergris block looks like, how much it weighs, what color,” Dr. . Son said.
According to the Wikipedia open dictionary, pig sand, also known as pig sand, pig sand or golden egg, is a type of benign gallstone that accumulates over time in the pig’s body, and is evaluated by folk as valuable for human health. with medicine. But in fact, in traditional medicine, we do not use any medicine from the stomach of pigs. There are currently no documents, evidence, or official information about the economic and medical value of pig sand.
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