What is the market price of toad per jin?
The toad, commonly known as the lai ha ma, is an economic animal of great medicinal value. The valuable parts of the toad are its shed skin (toad slough) and its venom (toad venom). Live toads are not worth much; generally, toad farming involves collecting and selling the shed skin and venom. Below, let us take a look at the market price of toads!
Toad Market Prices
1. Live toads: The price of live toads is 6-15 yuan per kilogram.
2. Toad slough price: The price of toad slough is generally over 10,000 to over 20,000 yuan per kilogram.
3. Toad venom price: The price of toad venom is generally 3,000 yuan to 9,000 yuan per kilogram.
Toad Farming Prospects
In China, there are already dozens of proprietary Chinese medicines made with toad venom as a raw material, and they are also highly favored in overseas pharmaceutical markets. In recent years, demand for toad venom at home and abroad has been increasing daily, and prices have soared. Currently, domestic purchases of toad venom can only meet half of market demand, and toad venom prices still show an upward trend.
The Efficacy of Toad Venom and Toad Slough
1. Toad venom: The dried product of the white secretion from the toad's post-auricular glands and skin glands is called toad venom. It is a precious traditional Chinese medicinal material containing various biological components, with effects such as detoxification, reducing swelling, relieving pain, strengthening the heart and promoting diuresis, anti-cancer, anesthesia, and anti-radiation. It can treat heart failure, stomatitis, pharyngitis, sore throat, skin cancer, and more. Germany has already used toad venom preparations for clinical treatment of coronary heart disease, and Japan uses toad venom as a raw material to produce “Jiusheng Dan” (Life-Saving Pill). In China, more than 50 proprietary Chinese medicines, including the famous Meihua Dianshe Dan, Yili Yatong Wan, Xinbao, and Huachansu Injection, all contain toad venom components. Toad venom has both benefits and drawbacks; it is highly toxic and cannot be taken directly, requiring extraction and processing.
2. Toad slough: Toad slough, also known as toad molt, is the keratinous skin membrane naturally shed periodically by the Chinese giant toad (Bufo gargarizans) during its growth and development. Since its discovery, toad slough has been widely used as medicine by people in various regions and has been artificially collected. It can treat liver cancer, sarcoma, lung cancer, ascites, and many other intractable diseases. In clinical practice, it is commonly given to patients together with malt to achieve tumor-suppressing effects.