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Is snake gall poisonous?
Snake gall tastes bitter and cold, and its toxicity is not great. If it is not under the guidance of a doctor, long-term use may cause poisoning.

Snakes are all treasures, especially snake bile. As a traditional medicine for purging liver fire and clearing lung heat, it has played an important role in health care, disease prevention and treatment for thousands of years. After snake gall is processed, the medicinal liquor prepared with white wine is snake gall wine, which has the functions of expelling wind and removing dampness, strengthening body and relieving cough.

It has the functions of resolving phlegm, etc., and has a good clinical effect on rheumatoid arthritis, blurred vision, cough with excessive phlegm, infantile convulsion and hemiplegia. Although snake gall wine has rich medicinal effects, it needs the right medicine and cannot be taken casually as a tonic.

Because snake gall tastes bitter and cold, it is not toxic. If it is not under the guidance of a doctor, long-term use may cause poisoning. Snake bile contains bile acids, cholesterol, amino acids and other effective components. Although it has a significant effect on improving human microcirculation, regulating endocrine and promoting toxin decomposition and excretion, if it is not treated according to syndrome differentiation, it will not only cure the disease, but will suffer from loss. For example, for diseases such as red eyes, tinnitus and expectoration caused by excessive internal heat, drinking snake gall wine not only has no therapeutic effect, but will aggravate the condition.

In addition, you can't drink snake gall wine prepared on the spot in the building or restaurant. Although snake gall is a traditional Chinese medicine, there are strict regulations on the source, processing method, taking method and dosage of medicinal snake gall. Generally speaking, the procedure of preparing snake gall wine in restaurants is to take the snake gall directly out of the snake belly, break it and add it to the wine. Raw snake gall contains a lot of toxic substances from the liver, and even many parasites. Only by soaking fresh snake gall with high concentration wine for a long time can the parasite be killed. If you drink snake bile wine without strict processing, it will cause acute gastroenteritis, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, parasitic infection and other diseases, and seriously induce liver and renal failure. Therefore, although snake gall wine is good, it should be used with caution.