In everyone's impression, gnawing fingernails is definitely not a good habit. And you will also think that the nails are very dirty and carry a lot of bacteria. What you don't know is that the nails can also be used as medicine. Do you think you are too ignorant? Let's go with the small knitting of the four seas network.
But recently, Mr. Li, a citizen, encountered a mysterious matter when he was buying medicine. He even found that in a kind of medicine for sore throat, the ingredients were clearly marked: human nails, which surprised Mr. Li.
In our opinion, there are a lot of dirt and bacteria in fingernails. How can it be used as medicine? So Mr. Li thought it was a printing mistake at that time.
Then, will there really be fingernails in this medicine? Will it be a printing error? Then, we went to the drugstore and found the medicine called laryngitis pill, which Mr. Li said.
After taking the medicine box, the reporter really saw three words of fingernail in the ingredient list. So, is this a typo or is there really a fingernail in it?
Drugstore staff said that the nail is indeed a traditional Chinese medicine, but as for its efficacy, she is not very clear.
Although pharmacy staff repeatedly let reporters not have to worry, but as for the efficacy of nails and drug safety, the other side did not say clearly for a while. So is the fingernail scientific and sanitary? What kind of efficacy will it have? Then the reporter came to the National College of Chengdu University of traditional Chinese medicine to consult the experts here. Experts say it's no surprise that fingernails are used as medicine.
Professor Li Jimin said that fingernails were used as medicine as early as in the Tang Dynasty's Qianjin Yaofang, which has a history of thousands of years. Traditional Chinese medicine calls nail tendon regression, which has many kinds of properties.
However, Professor Li Jimin also said that there are many medicines for detumescence and hemostasis, so now the medicine fingernail is rarely used. No wonder everyone feels mysterious.
Let's rest assured. It's not strange that fingernails are used as medicine. The reporter also calculated the account for everyone. Every year, the regular pharmaceutical companies go to the countryside and schools to buy fingernails at a price of 2300 yuan a kilogram. But the normal person's fingernails can grow 2 to 5 centimeters a year, the weight of one centimeter's fingernails is 1 to 2 grams, ten fingernails can grow nearly 100 grams of fingernails a year. In this way, each of us may have to cut two or three hundred dollars of fingernails every year. However, some people are puzzled. Even if fingernails are medicine, if they come from toes, they are disgusting. In response to such questions, Professor Li said: This is not going to happen.
Professor Li also said that in addition to human nails, there are many treasures in traditional Chinese medicine, such as hair, urine and even menstruation of women.
Professor Li said that traditional Chinese medicine is broad and profound, but with the introduction and popularization of Western medicine, many traditional Chinese medicine treasures left by our ancestors are gradually out of our sight. He called on relevant departments to increase the popularization of traditional Chinese medicine, so as to better inherit and carry forward the essence of traditional Chinese medicine.