This product is the dried gall of the brown bear and black bear, which belong to the Ursidae family of vertebrates. Brown bear gall is mainly produced in the northeastern and northern regions of China, with distributions in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Gansu, and other provinces. Black bear gall is primarily produced in the northeastern and northern regions. It is best to hunt during the summer and autumn seasons, remove the gallbladder, and dry it. After removing the gallbladder membrane, it is ground into a fine powder.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Bitter, cold. Act on liver, gallbladder and heart meridians.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Clearing heat and removing toxins, calming wind and stopping convulsions, clearing heat and improving vision.

bubble_chart Indications

1. Used for high fever caused by extreme heat in the liver meridian producing wind, infantile convulsion, epilepsy, and hand-foot convulsion. This product can clear liver heat, extinguish wind, and stop convulsions. For treating pediatric phlegm-heat fright epilepsy, it can be taken with Bomboo Juice; for treating eclampsia, it can be taken alone with warm water.
2. Used for sores, abscesses, and hemorrhoids with swelling and pain. This product can clear heat, remove toxins, and disperse abscesses. It can be applied to the affected area with water, or mixed with a small amount of borneol and applied with gall fel.
3. Used for liver heat red eye swelling and pain, and nebula obstruction in the eyes. It can be used externally as eye drops or taken internally.
4. In addition, its ability to clear heat and remove toxins can also be used for throat swelling and pain caused by heat toxin accumulation.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Xinxiu Bencao: "Treats seasonal epidemic fever turning into jaundice, prolonged summer dysentery, parasitic heart pain."
2. Bencao Congxin: "Cools the heart, calms the liver, improves vision, kills worms, treats fright epilepsy and hemorrhoids. Suitable for real heat, but should be avoided by those with deficiency."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

1-2.5 grams. For internal use, often made into pills or powders, not used in decoctions. Apply an appropriate amount externally.

bubble_chart Modern Pharmacology

This product mainly contains bear gall deoxycholic acid, followed by chenodeoxycholic acid, deoxycholic acid, cholic acid, cholesterol, bilirubin, inorganic salts, etc. Gall fel salts have a choleretic effect, promoting the secretion of gall fel and significantly increasing the secretion volume of gall fel, with a relaxing effect on the common bile duct and sphincter. This product also has the effect of dissolving gallstones and certain detoxifying, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, antitussive, expectorant, antiasthmatic, digestive, and hypotensive effects.