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MEDICATIONS
FROM THE
OCEAN: FR0M
ANCIENTT0
CONTEMPORARY
The ocean
is a
vast
treasure, food
store, energy basis and medicine trunk.
There
are
200,000 species
of
creatures,
of which over 1,000 have
medicinal
value
-
including bacteria,
fungus,
animals and plants.
ln
the ancient clas-
sic'Treatise
on Febrile Diseases"
of
the
Han Dynasty, the medical uses of oys-
ter shell were described. ln
another
Chinese masterpiece, "The
Herbal
Classic
of
Shen
Nong"
also described
the
uselulness
ol
crushed pearl
for
children's
restlessness.
The
great
Chinese physician and naturalist
of
the
Ming Dynasty,
Li
Shizhen,
had
described over 90 medicines derived
from the ocean
in
the colossal compila-
tion "Compendium of Materia Medica",
e.9., the poisonous nature of puffer fish
forms the
basis of
tetrodontoxin derived
from that
lish, let
alone other
folk
potions, e.9., seaweed for goiter. Con-
temporary ocean medical products are:
from
a
seaweed,
a
drug controlling
hy-
pertension
is derived;
from the
liver
of
the puffer fish, anti-cancer
drug;
from
cuttlefish and
oyster,
anti-cancer drugs;
from the hawksbill turtle,
a
drug
for
lung
cancer;
from
a
Hawaiian
coral,
an
effective
drug for
leukemia;
from other
tropical corals,
an
anti-ulcer
agent;
from
a
poisonous seaweed,
a
local anes-
thetic
that
is better than procaine; from
sea
shell, zinc and
calcium;
from fatty
fishes, omega-3,
etc.
The list goes
on
especially for
a
country
like China with
such
a
long coastline.
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