President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo said, scorpion poison has the highest value and fantastic in the world today. The price is around Rp 145 billion per liter.
Eka Putra Ramadan, as most senoir insect researchers from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), said the insect poison has tremendous potential in the medical world.
Rama revealed that scorpion venom is currently used for cancer therapy in hospitals because its tiny tiny molecules can reach hard-to-reach parts of the body, just like in the brain.
Why is the price so expensive?
The numbers are very few and rare in search, one scorpion has various toxic characters, produced to kill or because of fear. It is very difficult to make this very specific toxin. "Rama said. The treatment is very difficult starting from making a very specific toxin. Processing also needs a long process and only less than 10 percent of the venom part (toxin) is known to function and benefit.
Because of the small amount and difficult to standardize, the price is very expensive in the market and buyers do not want to buy from unofficial companies because it involves research and human life, ".
Based on the search price of the company Sigma Aldrich, one of the official companies that sell it, the price of scorpion toxins per 10 mg about Rp 16 million.