Market Price of Pangolin Scales
Pangolin scales are a traditional Chinese medicinal material, also known as jia pian, chuan jia, chuan jia pian, lin jia pian, etc. They are the fish-scale-like protective shell on the pangolin, and have the effects of promoting menstruation and lactation, dispelling wind and removing dampness, activating blood circulation and reducing swelling, and stopping bleeding and regulating menstruation. Their market value is very high. Let's take a look together at the market price of pangolin scales below!
Market Price of Pangolin Scales
The market price of pangolin scales is about 7.5 yuan per gram, and about 3750 yuan per jin. Prices vary from high to low depending on the grade and market. Note that the pangolin is an animal whose hunting is strictly prohibited by the state.
Factors Affecting the Price of Pangolin
1. In recent years, the transaction volume of pangolins from producing areas in Southeast Asian countries entering the Guangxi border trade market has sharply declined, decreasing at a rate of about 50% per year.
2. The departments involved strictly manage the border trade market. Only those holding a business license from the provincial forestry department may trade in the border trade market, thereby reducing transactions in the border trade market.
3. Domestic medicinal demand has increased, not only for clinical treatment of insufficient lactation, carbuncles, swelling and toxic sores, amenorrhea, and joint impediment diseases. Modern pharmacological research shows that pangolin also has the effects of lowering blood viscosity, anti-inflammation and anti-cancer, continuously broadening its uses and increasing its consumption.
4. Pangolins are still wild at home and abroad, and research on changing wild ones to domestic ones is just starting, so they cannot be supplied as commodities.
Efficacy and Effects of Pangolin Scales
[Nature and Flavor] Salty in flavor, slightly cold in nature.
[Meridian Tropism] Liver and stomach meridians.
[Efficacy] Promoting menstruation and lactation, dispelling wind and removing dampness, activating blood circulation and reducing swelling, and stopping bleeding and regulating menstruation. Mainly used to treat carbuncles, sores, swelling and toxic sores, wind-cold-dampness impediment, blood stasis amenorrhea, abdominal masses, insufficient lactation and other conditions.
1. Promoting menstruation and lactation: Pangolin scales can promote milk secretion and lactation, and have a very good milk-inducing effect for insufficient milk secretion in postpartum women and failure to produce milk caused by later environmental factors. Generally, about ten grams can be added when stewing pig trotters. It can also treat breast swelling in women, lobular hyperplasia, and swelling caused by blocked milk ducts during lactation.
2. Menstruation-regulating effect: Pangolin scales also have the effect of activating blood circulation and regulating menstruation, and are used to treat reduced menstruation, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, dark menstrual blood, etc.
3. Dispelling wind and removing dampness: Pangolin scales have a very good therapeutic effect on waist and leg joint pain caused by wind-cold-dampness pathogens obstructing the meridians and stagnation of qi and blood, rheumatic impediment pain, difficulty in flexion and extension, stroke paralysis, scabies, wind leprosy, etc.
4. Activating blood circulation and reducing swelling: Pangolin can be used for treatment in the early stage of carbuncle swelling with redness, swelling, heat and pain, traumatic injuries, joint swelling, hypochondriac pain, hemiplegia, as well as various lymph node swellings, tumor masses and various cancers.
5. Bleeding-stopping function: Grind the processed pangolin, dry the bleeding area when using it, and quickly sprinkle the pangolin powder evenly on the bleeding site. It can produce a rapid hemostatic effect and can also be used for nosebleeds, etc.