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, ...

The role of the gallbladder in Chinese medicine The definitions of organs in TCM are different than the definitions you may be used to in traditional Western medicine. In TCM, it’s believed that ...

Chinese man, 70, has enormous gallstone the size of a MELON removed after it went unnoticed for decades. Mr Zhang from Luotian, central China, had the mass in his body for years ...

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.

Chinese man set to become millionaire after finding pig's gallstone. ... Gallstones may not sound like a big deal, but it turns out that their value may depend on where they come from.

Bo Chunlou found the gallstone, dubbed ‘Pig Treasure’, when he was killing a sow. A villager who found a pig’s gallstone is set to become a Chinese millionaire after experts valued it at ...

Bear bile is used in traditional Chinese medicine, ... In the early 1900s, scientists discovered that bear bile, a fluid that’s secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder, ...

Two Uruguayan siblings were sentenced to prison this week for trafficking more than $3 million in bovine gallstones to Hong Kong for use in Chinese medicine, Uruguayan authorities and Interpol said.