Commentary: We need to pay attention to the social and people's livelihood issues behind the myth of insect grass

price move hundreds of thousands of yuan a jin, is "anti-tumor good medicine", both can cure diseases can also strengthen ... In countless pursuits, winter worm summer grass prices rise, and even become ordinary people can not be expected to be the Chinese herbal medicine. Due to the scarcity of production, there is an increasing number of derivatives in the name of insect grass.the price of insect grass, comparable to gold. According to Yushu's former state-run farm director Yu Madaiqing: "From the past a sack of insect grass can be exchanged back to the whole family for a few days of rations, now as long as there are two pounds can buy a house in the county." " grass is one of China's ancient chinese herbal varieties, has long been well known by the common people, why these years suddenly "rejuvenated youth", or even "a big shine"? One of the most important factors is the legend that insect grass can be "anti-tumor, anti-aging", in the face of huge market demand, insect grass in short supply, natural things are rare and expensive.is a legend, that is to say, there is neither scientific confirmation nor perjury. What are the medicinal ingredients of insect herbs, how effective are they for cancer patients, and what specific pathological responses will appear in clinical practice? None of these things have an authoritative statement, the common people "superstitious", naturally it is not surprising.demand for insect grass has soared and prices have been surprisingly high, why are so many people still spending? At least two problems can be explained from the side: First, the number of cancer patients is increasing, according to Zhejiang Satellite TV reported that China's annual new cancer
3 million
or so, the number of cancer deaths each year reached
2.
7 million, the country every
6
minutes, one person was diagnosed with cancer, showing a high trend. Second, people's cognition of tumor is still in a relatively superficial stage, the prevalence of urgent medical treatment, disease and disorderly medicine, disease and disorderly rumors of the situation., I'm afraid, is the deep-seated social problem behind the myth of worm grass. People believe that insect grass, psychologically speaking, and believe in all kinds of rivers and lakes, believe that mung bean soup can treat a hundred diseases, there is no fundamental difference. This superstition also stems fundamentally from the collective "aloofness" of the authorities - the lack of proper guidance for anti-cancer drugs and health care products, the lack of scientific publicity, the lack of effective regulation, and the formation of a huge grey area.This gray area is easy to be used by law-breaking merchants, bad media, so, a large number of insect grass derivatives, and even the market appeared ××worm grass" chicken" said, misleading consumers think it is using insect grass-related raw materials to feed, good people to investigate, the merchant's explanation is that eating insects, grass growing chicken, so fooling, make people laugh.For the real effect of insect grass, Qinghai Province Academy of Livestock and Veterinary Sciences, the grassland research institute of winter worm summer grass research room director Li Yuling said, at present only through tests show that the two important components of insect grass are nucleosides and monosaccharides, in addition to adenosine, polysaccharides, these elements on the partial implementation of radiation, chemotherapy after extremely weak patients have an immunity effect, to a certain extent, affirmed part of the health value of insect grass, but never means to cure the disease. Please note that there is a difference between "experiments" and "experiments", and the mystery of insect grass has not been fully lifted and should be entered into clinical trials as early as possible.As with Yunnan Pu'er tea, insect grass in the market hype "the consequences are very serious", not only will cause the rapid depletion of insect grass resources, the great destruction of the ecological environment, but also cause the disorderly distribution of insect grass resources, and even breed corruption, misleading patients, blindly take caused waste and so on. According to media reports, a worm was not found in the
20
soil samples collected in Sulu Township, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. This is a warning sign.Of course, the most important problem is that we should skip the myth of insect grass, worm grass thinking itself, through this signal to see the insect grass consumer groups, especially the growing number of cancer patients, and even all people's hearts for their own health anxiety and helplessness, they need scientific guidance, scientific assistance, scientific health care, which requires the relevant government departments in the national health to do more, this is undoubtedly the current major social and people's livelihood issues. Chongqing Morning Post commentatorWang Fangjie