Harvesting and processing: Cut open the snake's abdomen, find the gallbladder, tie the upper end of the bile duct with thread, then cut it along the upper part of the ligature, and take it out to dry.
Medicinal parts: Gallbladder
Origin: Produced in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei, Anhui, Sichuan, etc
Subject: Serpentidae
Original plant: Black Snake
Characteristics of the medicinal herb Wu Snake Gallbladder: The dried gallbladder is brown or green brown in color, wrinkled, about 1 cm long, 0.5 cm thick, and the upper bile duct is 1.5 cm long. Slightly transparent to light perspective, with a yellow brown or yellow green inner color. Extremely bitter taste, sweet aftertaste.
The medicinal properties of black snake bile:
[Nature and Taste] "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Chronicles": "It has a cool nature, a bitter and slightly sweet taste, and is non-toxic. ""
【 Indications and Functions 】 Dispelling wind, clearing heat, resolving phlegm, and improving vision.
[Usage and Dosage] Oral administration: Grind into pills and powders. External use: Grind and sprinkle or apply.
[Attachment]
① Treating phlegm and confusing the mind: snake bile, tangerine peel, gall star, coptis chinensis, Sichuan scallop, amber. At the end of the study, it was taken as a pill.
② To treat wind and heat madness: snake bile, Ba Shuang, cinnabar, scorpion, cold water stone, Huanglian. At the end of the study, it was taken as a pill.
③ For the treatment of eye fog, skin heat toxicity, and prickly heat: swallow snake bile mixed with wine. (Below is the "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Chronicles")
④ Treating swollen wooden tongue: One snake gallbladder, roasted to powder, applied to the tongue, causing saliva to spit out. (Holy Blessing Formula)
⑤ Treating internal and external hemorrhoids: snake bile, mixed with sesame oil for application. (Sichuan Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine)