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Blogs by Lucille Bellucci traditional medicines 9/8/2020 8:35:18 AMI have developed an aversion to Chinese cultures. My peeve is this: They are so proud of their ancient civilizations, but as far as I know what they have developed is a sickening adherence to unspeakable medicines made of tiger bones, rhino horns, pangolins scales, bear bile. They have bears in cages and "milk" their bile.
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