Hooper, D., 1910. Materia medica animalium Indica. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal N.S. 6 (10): 507-522
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blood, Burma. The dried blood of the rhino (Rh. sondaicus) is used in Moulmein as an important medicine under the name of Kyan Thwe. The blood is dried in the gut of the bowel and resembles black pudding. The price is one rupee per tical or one rupee in weight. It's valued by Burmans and Chinese. In the Mandalay drugs shops a substance similar to congealed blood is sold as a substitute for the more costly rhino blood. Its origin could not be ascertained.
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