The gallstones are primarily used in Chinese medicine to treat strokes . As researchers from the College of Pharmacy at Chengdu University in Chengdu, China explained in a recent paper, gallstones ...

Cattle gallstones, long used in Chinese medicine, now sell for as much as $65 per gram, with demand skyrocketing across the globe. But with black-market activity and farm thefts on the rise, ...

Gallstones may not sound like a big deal ... The substance is called ‘pig treasure’ in traditional Chinese medicine as it is believed to remove toxins from the body. While the market price ...

Ox gallstone is main ingredient in Chinese medicine pill, but chances of finding one in a bovine gallbladder are about one in 500 to 1,000.

Bear bile has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of ... a fluid that’s secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder, contains a significant amount of ursodeoxycholic ...

A villager who found a pig’s gallstone is set to become a Chinese millionaire after experts valued it at nearly half a million pounds. The extremely rare object, known as a ‘bezoar’, is a ...