Inside China's human placenta black market where traders risk disease to raid hospitals
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dailystar.co.ukChina's black market, a new investigation has found. Some people believe fresh placenta (the organ that nourishes a foetus) contains healing properties, and will either cook and eat it or process it into a powder and sell it.Placenta, known as ziheche in traditional Chinese medicine, is thought to treat illnesses like tuberculosis as well as helping those with weak immune systems or aid in reproductive health.There has been a crackdown on the trade in recent years, with China's Ministry of Health prohibiting the sale of human placentas in 2005.
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