Guest guest Posted July 4, 2007 Report Share Posted July 4, 2007 Never underestimate the ignorance of the media....this just in from AP... Bob www.acuherbals.com Chinese villagers eat dinosaur bones 2 hours, 25 minutes ago BEIJING - Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers. Until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as " dragon bones " at about 4 yuan (50 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Dong, a professor with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said when the villagers found out the bones were from dinosaurs they donated 200 kilograms (440 pounds) to him and his colleagues for research. " They had believed that the 'dragon bones' were from the dragons flying in the sky, " he said. The calcium-rich bones were sometimes boiled with other ingredients and fed to children as a treatment for dizziness and leg cramps. Other times they were ground up and made into a paste that was applied directly to fractures and other injuries, he said. The practice had been going on for at least two decades, he said. Dong was among a team of scientists who recently excavated in Henan's Ruyang County an 60-foot-long plant-eating dinosaur, which lived 85 million to 100 million years ago. Local officials held a news conference Tuesday, showing off the find to the public for the first time. Another two dinosaur fossils were being excavated in the area, which is rich in fossilized dinosaur eggs, Dong said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2007 Report Share Posted July 4, 2007 Hi Bob and all, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this true. My teachers told me that until a few years ago, they could get dinosaur bones, which were the authentic " long gu " = dragon bone. One teacher has one of these just as a souvenir. Today, because of the scarcity of them, we resort to bovine bones. k. On 7/4/07, Robert Linde <boblindeherbalist wrote: > > Never underestimate the ignorance of the media....this just in from > AP... > Bob > www.acuherbals.com > > Chinese villagers eat dinosaur bones 2 hours, 25 minutes ago > > BEIJING - Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones > and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional > medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing > powers. > > Until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province > as " dragon bones " at about 4 yuan (50 cents) per kilogram (2.2 > pounds), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press on > Wednesday. > > Dong, a professor with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and > Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said when the > villagers found out the bones were from dinosaurs they donated 200 > kilograms (440 pounds) to him and his colleagues for research. > > " They had believed that the 'dragon bones' were from the dragons > flying in the sky, " he said. > > The calcium-rich bones were sometimes boiled with other ingredients > and fed to children as a treatment for dizziness and leg cramps. > Other times they were ground up and made into a paste that was > applied directly to fractures and other injuries, he said. > > The practice had been going on for at least two decades, he said. > > Dong was among a team of scientists who recently excavated in > Henan's Ruyang County an 60-foot-long plant-eating dinosaur, which > lived 85 million to 100 million years ago. Local officials held a > news conference Tuesday, showing off the find to the public for the > first time. > > Another two dinosaur fossils were being excavated in the area, which > is rich in fossilized dinosaur eggs, Dong said. > > > -- aka Mu bong Lim Father of Bhakti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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