"Actually, there's no reason they go to all the trouble," Chang Chi Hsien says, explaining that before Western medicine was introduced to China, the demand for animals used in Chinese medicine was so great that many of them were raised in captivity, obviating the need to hunt them in the wild.
取之原有道，殺之何太急「何必這麼費力？」張齊賢表示，過去西藥未傳入我國，民間對動物藥材的需求量比現在多很多，因此有「藥農」專門繁殖、豢養各種藥用動物，根本不需捕殺野生品種。