Chapter 1116: : Pangolin scales

Ye Chen’s current reputation in Vietnam is not too big, but at least many Vietnamese already know Ye Chen’s skills in traditional Chinese medicine.
In the view of Boss Hu, if Ye Chen finally entered the final list of the first Eastern Medical Contest, in fact, in his opinion, he is already very famous. As long as he publicizes, it is not difficult to achieve the effect he wants.
After all, so many famous doctors from all over the world concentrated in Hanoi to participate in the first Eastern Medical Contest. Ye Chen's ability to stand out and enter the final list shows that his medical skills are very good.
If you get better results in the final list, for example, the top ten results, in the eyes of boss Hu, that would be the best.
When Ye Chen saw Boss Hu's shrewd eyes looking at him, Ye Chen asked strangely: "Boss Hu, do you have anything else?"
"Well, Doctor Ye, there are some things, I want to discuss with you." Boss Hu said.
However, when he just asked what Ye Chen thought it was, he saw two long black and thin Vietnamese men walking in.
One is a middle-aged Vietnamese man, and the other is a young Vietnamese man. Among them, the young man is carrying a bag of black things in his hands.
"Boss Hu, I have goods to sell, do you want?" said the middle-aged man.
Boss Hu naturally knows these two people. They are the middle-aged owner of the game shop not far from Fujian Street and a young waiter in the shop. They usually do business with him.
Among the items that are traded and traded in this business, the most important thing is pangolin scales.
In fact, even if the meat of pangolin is rare, it is not too expensive. It is not even as expensive as the abalone thorn belly. The most valuable are the pangolin scales that can be used as Chinese medicine.
It is these northern or southern pharmacies that usually buy pangolin scales. It's just that most of the South pharmacies are opened by locals in Vietnam, and their prices are not comparable to the North pharmacies opened by the Chinese.
Just think about it, you know that you can sell it at the expensive North Pharmacy.
Seeing these two people coming over, Boss Hu smiled and communicated with the middle-aged Vietnamese man because they spoke Vietnamese, and neither Ye Chen nor Liao Bingxue understood them.
However, from the looks of these three people, Ye Chen probably guessed something.
Boss Hu took the black bag and found that it weighed several kilograms. When you opened it, they were all pangolin scales that had just been peeled off. They were wet, not dry.
The wet price, because it still carries water, can be used as medicine immediately, but it is not easy to store, and it needs to be dried before it can be used as medicine for a long time. Therefore, the price is naturally not as expensive as the dry one.
At present, pangolin scales are mainly dry goods. In China, they are divided into inferior, medium, and high-quality products. The prices are less than five yuan per gram, five to ten yuan per gram, and more than ten yuan per gram.
This is the price at the pharmacy. If it is bought, the price may be less than half or about one-third.
Now Boss Hu saw the pangolin scales in the black bag at a glance, touched it with his hand, and then took it out to see the color and size of the scales. Basically, he can judge the age and quality of the pangolin and other issues.
Based on his experience, it can be judged that it belongs to the middle grade, and it can be sold at yuan per gram in the domestic market.
However, because Vietnam is still rich in pangolins, there are a lot of pangolin scales every day, so they can only sell for 67 yuan a gram, and he buys them from the Vietnamese for a maximum of 3-4 yuan a gram.
Don’t underestimate these three or four yuan per gram, 500 grams per catty, it costs about 2,000 yuan per catty, and now the average Vietnamese income is only a few hundred yuan a month, the salary of Vietnamese college students The maximum is more than 1,000, which is already very good.
Now Boss Hu is carrying this black bag, which is about three or four catties, so a simple calculation would cost seven or eight thousand yuan.
Under such circumstances, there is no doubt that the net profit is much higher than buying other things.
In fact, when Boss Hu took out a scale from the black bag to look at it, Ye Chen could see that it was a pangolin scale, which was peeled off from the slaughtered pangolin.
When Boss Hu was bargaining with the middle-aged Vietnamese man, he finally confirmed three yuan and five yuan per gram. Moreover, he promised the middle-aged Vietnamese man that as long as it is good enough high-grade pangolin scales, five or six yuan per gram It's all there.
Next, I don’t need Hu’s boss to do anything about the bag of pangolin scales. A clerk has already been there to help. As for the money, the clerk will also handle it.
"Doctor Ye, did you see that?" Boss Hu asked when he went to wash his hands.
Ye Chen has been studying medicine for so many years, if he doesn't even know this, then he is really learning for nothing. Maybe it was because in the morning, when he saw the female pangolin that was cruelly slaughtered, Ye Chen's expression was not very good.
In ancient times, in fact, ancient people, including ancient doctors, were the most advanced, and they could dominate everything in nature. Therefore, at that time, in the eyes of ancient Chinese doctors, everything in nature can be used.
For example, tiger bones, rhino horns, pangolin scales and so on are now used for medicinal purposes.
In ancient times, Ye Chen felt nothing. After all, the reason why a person is a person must first safeguard his interests before considering other things.
Therefore, in that case, with a large number of species and a large population, nature has basically not been destroyed. Basically, there is no need to worry about the extinction of the rare animals used as drugs.
However, since modern times, the number of human populations has increased by more than ten times compared with the ancient population. More and more mountains and forests have been destroyed, and a large number of animals have been hunted, resulting in fewer and fewer rare animals. , There may be extinction.
For example, the rhino, like the Chinese rhino, was extinct in the late Qing Dynasty. There are also rare animals such as tiger bones and pangolin scales. Because they are getting less and less, the price is higher and the price is higher. These animals are becoming fewer and fewer, leading to a cycle.
Even if China or international organizations have listed those rare animals as national protected animals, there are still people who continue to hunt them in the face of huge interests.
Under such circumstances, many people oppose Chinese medicine. It is not that Chinese medicine is useless, but that it is a problem with the use of Chinese medicine, which has become a catalyst for the hunting of rare animals.
For example, these pangolins, if not for their scales, can be used for medicinal purposes, I am afraid that they will not be hunted so severely.
Now when Boss Hu asked, Ye Chen's expression remained the same, saying, "This is pangolin scales, which have the functions of reducing bleeding and stopping symptoms, reducing swelling and draining pus in Chinese medicine. However, the medicinal use of these pangolin scales has already It can be replaced by other plant drugs."
Last time, when Ye Chen treated the patient, he used the herbal medicine "Wang Bu Liu Xing" instead.
In fact, the effect should be similar. However, many patients still feel that the original Chinese medicine is better, and other medicines cannot replace its effect.
"However, the domestic pharmacies are still selling now!" Boss Hu said.
In fact, he knows that pangolins are classified as second-level national protected animals in China and can only be sold in Chinese pharmacies with a formal business license. If they are sold in other pharmacies, it is definitely illegal and can only be sold in the black market. As for Vietnam, the government does not care at all.
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