Temat: Indian bid to solve age-old seahorse aphrodisiac riddle
...BC and it is now the hottest recipe for traditional medicines of China, Korea and Thailand as an aphrodisiac, a drug against bronchial asthma and whooping caugh," Sreepada told AFP.
"We will take from the wild, culture them for their properties and if we find medical efficacy then we will immediately offer our experiments to people and they can set up standardised commercial hatcheries."
The NIO is looking for five million rupees (111,000 dollars) in federal aid for the research in seahorses, put on an endangered species list by India in 2001.
The organisations believe they will get the cash from New Delhi and the three-year research project will commence in February.
"Seahorses are extremely complex creatures and it is difficult to synthesise them in laboratory conditions but chemistry will help us to gain a lead and then we will make an attempt to learn their secrets," said P.S. Parmeshwaran,...
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