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What's the use of bezoar?

Niuhuang is a gallstone of cattle, which has been used as medicine in China for more than 2,000 years. It is recognized as a precious and rare drug in the world. There are more than 65,438+080 varieties of Chinese patent medicines made of bezoar, such as Japanese Jiuxin Dan and China Angong Niuhuang Pill.

Cattle can produce high cholesterol after taking bezoar orally.

Bilirubilirubinemia, due to the accumulation of excessive bilirubin and cholesterol in bile under the action of bezoar, and due to the precipitation of supersaturated bile under the action of bezoar, bilirubin and cholesterol stones are formed, which are deposited on the inner mucosa of bovine bile, leading to chronic cholecystitis, and B glucuronidase is decomposed, which combines with bilirubin and free calcium ions to form bilirubin calcium stones, which are constantly mixed and precipitated and increased on the formed stones, thus rapidly forming commercial bezoar. After taking bezoar orally, the bile of cattle can be precipitated, the bile flow is blocked, the ph value is increased, the colloid chemistry and bile salt concentration of bile are changed, and mucopolysaccharide sulfate is increased, so that gallstones, namely bezoar, are formed in cattle within a few days.