A prized ingredient in China’s multibillion-dollar industry for traditional medicine, gallstones have become the must-have ...
Gallstones, those little rocks of cholesterol or particles that grow in your gallbladder, can get as big as a golf ball. If they block tubes that carry bile, that could be really painful.
The stones can vary in size, with some being as small as a grain of sand or a pea or as big as a golf ball. Even though they are stones, there are differences between gallstones and kidney stones.