Buffalo gallstones are as expensive as pure gold: 300 million/kg is hard to buy

Gallstones taken from the gallbladders of buffalo, cows, pigs, and horses are considered extremely rare oriental medicine, as expensive as pure gold, but not everyone with money can buy them.

Mr. Nguyen Van Le, a medicinal herb trader in Sapa (Lao Cai), said that the demand for gallstones from buffalo, cows, pigs, and horses is high, but the supply is extremely scarce, so recently he had to search for them at all slaughterhouses at a price of 32 million VND/tael (320 million VND/kg), and he would even buy them at a slightly higher price if they were available. However, the amount of gallstones he collected was still not enough to meet the pre-ordered orders.

According to Mr. Le, gallstones, also known as gallstones, are an extremely rare oriental medicine, like a miracle drug that can cure many diseases, including cancer. However, not all buffalo, cows, pigs, and horses have gallstones, only those with gallstones have stones in their gallbladders.

Gallstones in the gallbladders of buffalo, cows, pigs and horses are considered valuable medicinal herbs in oriental medicine.

Usually these are old animals, large in stature, weak, rarely move and when they move, they move slowly, have high body temperature, long-term fever, messy hair like grass, and even fall out a lot. In addition, they also have symptoms of red, lethargic eyes, irregular eating and drinking, drinking a lot of water, often screaming and not sleeping at night,...

“There are customers who buy as much as they want, but I have searched all the slaughterhouses in the area, even slaughterhouses in other provinces, but there is not enough for them,” he said.

The size of gallstones in buffalo, cows, pigs, and horses is often different, depending on the illness of each animal, so there are animals with gallstones as small as a fingertip, but there are also stones weighing up to 2-3 ounces. Therefore, when lucky, you can collect a few ounces, even a kilo, but there are times when you have to wait a whole month without being able to buy a single ounce, so customers have to wait.

Meanwhile, Mr. Nguyen Hoang Tu in Hanoi also said that he had to search for 4 months to find new sources to buy 50 grams of horse gallstones at a price of up to 40 million VND/tael, then grind them into powder for his father to drink to help treat his illness.

This type of gallstone is as expensive as pure gold, sought after by many people at a price of 32 million VND/tael.

“I heard people say that gallstones from buffalo, cows, pigs, and horses, crushed into powder and taken in a certain dose, can cure cancer. However, it is very difficult to find this type of gallstone. I went to all the slaughterhouses in the area to ask to buy it, but all the slaughterhouse owners shook their heads and said that occasionally I only see one or two gallstones, but they are all bought by traders even though they are as expensive as pure gold,” said Mr. Le.

He added that he could not order directly from slaughterhouses, so he had to buy through wholesalers and had to order for 4 months to buy 50 grams of gallstones.

In fact, many people still say that gallstones are an extremely rare and precious medicine that acts on the "heart" and "liver" meridians, clearing the mind and detoxifying, clearing the mind and eliminating phlegm, cooling the liver and stopping wind. Used in diseases such as high fever, coma, stroke, sore throat, cancer, boils, etc.

In folk medicine, bezoar is often used as a sedative and heart tonic in cases of symptoms of insanity, fever, convulsions, and epilepsy in children.

Many heavy gallstones are sold for hundreds of millions of dong.

According to physician Vu Quoc Trung, gallstones in the gallbladders of buffalo, cows, pigs, and horses have been used as medicine for a long time. In Oriental medicine, they are called bezoar. To put it simply, the medicinal herb “bezoar” is the gallstones, or gallstones, of these animals when they have gallstone disease.

In oriental medicine, bezoar is a precious medicine that is combined with a number of other medicines to prevent and treat strokes. However, bezoar is very rare, sometimes thousands or tens of thousands of buffaloes and cows are slaughtered to find one with gallstones in the gallbladder.

He also said that due to its rarity, China and some other countries have created artificial bezoar and even sold fake bezoar. Therefore, when buying, people need to be careful to avoid wasting money because bezoar is currently very expensive.

According to VNN