VIAGRA TO THE RESCUE OF ENDANGERED SPECIES
Advent Of Male Impotency Drugs Has Led To Less Demand For
Traditional Animals
Products
The advent of male impotency drugs has brought unexpected benefits to the animal kingdom, which no longer needs to sacrifice seals, deer and turtles to make
traditional cures for erectile
dysfunction , according to new research.
A survey of 256 men who used traditional Chinese medicine to cure their ailments found that when it came to sexual problems, more men were switching to pharmaceutical products such as Viagra.
Those using traditional Chinese medicine are not switching for arthritis, indigestion or gout, psychologists Bill Von Hippel said on Monday. Erectile dysfunction is the one case where all that reverses.
Von Hippel, from Sydney’s University of New South Wales, conducted the survey with his biologists brother Frank von Hippel from the University of Alaska using funding from the makers of Viagra, Pfizer.
Their findings are published in the latest edition of British Journal Environment Conservation. Their interviews with men aged between 50 and 76, conducted at traditional Chinese medicine clinics in Hong Kong, found that eight animals were most likely to be saved by Viagra-type drugs.
These include seals, whose penises are ground into a powder and used in a tonic , and green sea turtles which are made into a soup .Also saved are sealions, pipe fish, sea cucumbers, seahorses and some species of Asian deer and feckos .But von Hippel ,whoi began his research into this area in 1998,said Viagra would still not save tigers and rhinos because they were used to produce so many other cures.
Viagra is a drug manufactured after extensive research by Pfizer of U.S.A to cure erectile dysfunction or impotency in males. Now the drug is developed for females also. Other reputed drug manufacturers have also come out with their versions of identical drug successfully. It is highly appreciated that the researchers are finding out good many uses of the drug like the one mentioned above.