Many animals are kind to themselves, especially monkeys, close relatives of human beings. Richard Willand Hamm, a zoologist at Harvard University, found that monkeys there often habitually chew a leaf called "Lira Aspis". Leaves contain a substance called "Tiarubrin", which has the function of preventing and treating bacterial infections and parasites.
Once the gull starling suffers from arthritis, it will fly to the nest of forest red ants, frequently flapping its wings and flapping the red ants to flee everywhere. Forest red ants spray formic acid on seagulls and starlings, which is a chemical weapon in their bodies. Formic acid not only cured the arthritis of gull starlings, but also helped them remove parasites from their skin.
Rabbits living in Solomon Islands will try their best to find a spider web and wrap it around the wound, so that the bleeding will stop immediately and the pain will slowly disappear. It turns out that spider webs have strong hemostatic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory and granulation effects.
Cows often dig and lick mud when they eat. Studies have shown that clay can not only supplement some minerals that cattle lack, but also cause diarrhea and expel toxins and parasites from cattle stomach.
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Mitchell Keynes, a pharmacologist at Yale University School of Medicine in the United States, said that although the emergence of genes and genetic engineering laid the foundation for human healing at the cutting-edge molecular level, animal self-treatment provided people with many beneficial inspirations from another angle.
For example, the "Lira Tree in Aspis" discovered by monkeys is recorded in the world pharmacopoeia classics. Drugs made from the leaves and roots of this tree can effectively treat scars, cough, fever and other diseases;
Formic acid has become a simple drug to treat arthritis in some places; The example of cattle grazing on soil provides a new direction for aquaculture. If we reduce the use of antibiotics to treat and sterilize cattle, sheep, pigs, ducks and other livestock, it is possible to produce non-toxic and harmless green food and increase production.
People's Network-Animals know how to be kind to themselves.