What other animal waste do people use?

We all know that animal manure can be used for many things, such as fertilizer, but do you know that animal manure can be used for some Chinese medicine, coffee and perfume? Let's talk about the role of animal manure in detail.

For example, a cup of "cat excrement coffee" costs two or three hundred yuan, and a small piece of sperm whale excrement is even more valuable. ...

Wonderful use 1: high-end drinks

Example: cat excrement coffee

Cat excrement coffee, also known as cat excrement coffee, is one of the most expensive coffees in the world. The price per kilogram ranges from 300 to 800 dollars, which is very abundant in Indonesia and other places. Drinking a cup of cat excrement coffee in Hong Kong costs two or three hundred yuan, and only one or two top hotels have it. Cat excrement coffee has become a "coffee upstart", which makes coffee fans more eager than the traditional top Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee.

This coffee is actually made by extracting the feces of arboreal wild animals commonly known as "civets" in Indonesia and baking them.

Civet cats like to choose the most mature, sweet, plump and juicy coffee fruits in coffee trees as food. Coffee fruits pass through their digestive system, the pulp outside the fruit is digested, and the hard coffee beans are excreted intact through the digestive system of civet cats. After such a digestion process, the coffee bean has undergone an unparalleled magical change-because protein, which produces bitterness in coffee beans, has been digested, so the bitterness of cat excrement coffee is much less and the taste is a little more mellow.

Early Indonesian farmers regarded civet cats as their sworn enemies, but I don't know who dared to be the first person to eat crabs. On a whim, they selected coffee beans from the feces of civet cats to make coffee, and then processed and roasted them. The coffee made has been praised by the world and experts.

Wonderful use 2: precious spices

For example: Long Xianxiang.

Long Xianxiang is a perfume, which contains 25% dracorhodin. When added to perfume, it will form a thin film on the skin, which can make the fragrance last. It has been used as a fixative in history. It not only has the animal fragrance of Qingling Wen Ya, but also has special sweetness, such as earth fragrance and moss fragrance. Its main components are ambergris alcohol, benzoic acid and dihydropropyl ionone. It is also a valuable Chinese medicine, which has the effects of resolving phlegm and resolving hard mass, benefiting qi and promoting blood circulation.

Long Xianxiang is also the most mysterious spice. At first, people only picked it up occasionally at the seaside. Because of its rarity, Long Xianxiang is also called "grey gold" and "liquid gold". At first, people thought it was the saliva of the "dragon" sleeping in the sea, hence the name. Scientists have found that it actually comes from a huge creature in the ocean-the sperm whale.

Sperm whales can dive to a depth of 1000 meters and feed on giant marine life such as squid and octopus. Sperm whales have difficulty digesting their hard and sharp horny beaks and cartilage after swallowing food. The intestines and stomach of sperm whales are cut and ground by these hard things, and only through the digestive tract can some special secretions be produced to wrap those sharp things to relieve the pain of the wound. Every once in a while, these secretion lumps will be excreted with feces and eventually float on the sea to become Long Xianxiang.

Long Xianxiang, which has just been excreted, is actually not fragrant, and even has a pungent and unbearable smell of feces. But after the rubbing of the waves, the exposure of the sun and the catalysis of the air, it finally became strange and fragrant, and it lasted for a long time.

Wonderful use 3: cultivate tree species

For example, the feces of dodo birds.

There used to be two endemic species in Mauritius, an African island country: dodo and olive tree. The dodo is a large, slow-moving and flightless bird, which is now extinct. Olive tree with big skull is a precious tree with tall and straight trunk, hard wood and delicate texture. /kloc-around 0/693, when the last dodo became extinct, it was found that olive trees were also "infertile". In 1980s, there were only 13 precious big skull trees in Mauritius. Anxious scientists finally discovered the relationship between the olive tree with big head and the dodo: the dodo eats the fruit of this tree, the pulp of the fruit and the hard shell outside the seeds are digested by the dodo's digestive system, and then the seeds discharged from the body can germinate. Only then did scientists figure out a way to make chickens eat the fruit of the olive tree instead of the dodo, so that the tree could survive.

Wonderful use 4: take medicine to treat diseases

For example: noctilucent sand, full moon sand and trogopterori.

Chinese medicine experts point out that many animal droppings are excellent Chinese herbal medicines, and some of them are even quite expensive. As early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing's synopsis of the Golden Chamber recorded the prescriptions for treating diseases with animal excrement such as chicken white, rat excrement, burnt dog excrement, horse excrement and cow dung. According to statistics, in the Compendium of Materia Medica compiled by Li Shizhen, there are as many as 5 1 species of animal excrement used as medicine, involving 32 species of animals including birds, beasts and people.

Records include: pig manure is zero, which is used to treat children; Sheep dung is used to treat infantile diarrhea and anorexia. Donkey dung treatment is not limited by water; Camel dung, external use, stop nosebleed; Lion dung breaks blood and kills all kinds of insects; Tiger dung is used to treat carbuncle, hemorrhoid and leakage; Deer dung is used for dystocia; Treatment of acne invagination with cat feces; Wolf dung is used to treat bone carp; Monkey dung for treating infantile umbilical wind pinch pain: pigeon dung is called Zopanlong, which is used to treat scrofula and scabies. White clove, that is, the feces of sparrows, is warm in nature, bitter in taste and slightly toxic. It can eliminate stagnation and treat hernia, remove pterygium and treat women's leucorrhea. Swallowing dung can cure five carbuncle, and you can't urinate; Peacock dung is used to treat leucorrhea and dysuria; Eagle manure can cure deficiency and kill tuberculosis; Wait a minute.

Nightmare sand

Interestingly, the ancients also gave some interesting nicknames to the excrement of some animals. If it has the effect of killing suicide insects, it can treat dark circles, malnutrition and hemorrhoids, which is called "full moon sand"; Bat dung, which can clear away heat and improve eyesight, disperse blood and promote digestion, can be used to treat internal and external obstacles, scrofula and malnutrition, and is called "night sand"; The excrement of flying squirrel (Hao Han bird) or flying squirrel with compound teeth in Zokor family has the functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and regulating blood gas, and is called "Trogopterori".

Wonderful use 5: ancient contraception

Example: crocodile feces contraceptive

Thousands of years ago, Egyptians invented various contraceptive techniques, such as the contraceptive pills they recorded on papyrus. The main raw material of the formula is the excrement of an animal rich in Egypt-crocodile, plus bees, and sometimes frankincense (a resin), aloe and even milk are added. According to this prescription, suppositories can be placed in the cervix and vagina for contraception, which can be described as "the earliest contraceptive in human history"

It is said that the ancient Egyptians believed that crocodiles, elephants and other animals had mysterious powers, so they were used in contraceptives. But from a scientific point of view, this method has the same basic principle as modern contraceptive drugs, such as external contraceptive ointment and contraceptive suppository. Crocodile dung is strongly acidic and does have a certain spermicidal effect, so its contraceptive effect is very likely to be effective. However, due to the strong smell of animal feces, this contraceptive method has been "extinct".

Wonderful use 6: cleaning supplies

Example: cow dung toothpaste, camel urine shampoo.

Earlier, it was reported that Berbers in Tunisia like to brush their teeth with cow dung. This invention has even been made into toothpaste, which has become a unique daily necessities for Berbers.

The practice of cow dung toothpaste is roughly as follows: they sun cow dung as hard as a stone, then grind it into fine powder, add some spices and minerals, dip it in mint branches, and clean the surfaces and gaps of teeth. It is said that this compound formula has the functions of strengthening teeth, whitening and preventing gingivitis. This toothpaste is really good for Berbers who eat meat all the year round.

Bedouins, a nomadic people in the Sahara desert of North Africa, also like to wash their hair with camel urine, which is famous for its foul smell. Locals say that the desert climate is harsh and there is a serious shortage of water, and most Bedouins have white lice on their hair. Camel urine has excellent lice killing effect, so it was chosen as "shampoo" by them. It is said that hair washed with camel urine can be distinguished, and washing your face with it can make your skin smoother. This "beauty law" originated in ancient Egypt once spread throughout North Africa and Arabia. It is said that the famous Cleopatra used lion urine to wash her hair.