What is Jibao? How much is the price per gram? What are the medicinal values?

In recent years, there are many animal treasures, which are very popular by collectors, and the market collection value is also heating up. "Ji Bao" is one of them. What is that Ji Bao? How much is the price per gram? What are the medicinal values?

First, what is Jibao?

Jibao, formerly known as Jibao, there is no clear academic explanation for "Jibao". Some people say that it refers to chicken gallstone, alias Jibao, which is a dry gallstone of domestic chicken. Chicken yellow integrity is mostly oval, light, golden to yellowish brown surface, delicate and shiny, belongs to the result of animal visceral gene mutation, generally long in the abdominal cavity.

Second, the medicinal value of Jibao

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chicken treasure is fragrant, slightly bitter and sweet, and cool. Stomach Meridian, Heart Meridian, spleen Meridian and bladder Meridian. Oral treatment of Yang fistula, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, irregular menstruation, high fever coma, madness, infantile convulsions, esophageal cancer, gastropathy, nausea and other diseases, external use to treat sore throat, mouth sores, ulcers, uremia, etc., is an important raw material for many kinds of good medicine.

Third, how much is the price of Jibao?

As the natural chicken treasure is very precious, the chicken must be more than 2 years before there is a chance of one in a million, so it is very rare, the price is relatively high, and most of the collectors are medicine purchasers, biopharmaceutical enterprises and so on. The international price of Jibao is more expensive than gold, and the highest price can be more than 9000 yuan per gram.

The reason why "Jibao" has been handed down is its medicinal value, but medical experts say its medicinal value is not clear, and the price of "Jibao" is artificially hyped. The doctor said: in fact, there is no such drug as "Jibao", and there is no relevant record. When it comes to the "treasure" in the intestines and stomach of animals, we are more familiar with "bezoar", "dog treasure" and "Ma Bao", which are known as the "three treasures of traditional Chinese medicine".

In addition, some experts said that there is no concept of "chicken treasure", the so-called market price is completely hyped up, do not blindly believe the reference price given by the so-called "appraisal institution".

Note: if something unusual is found in an animal, it must be identified first to avoid harm to the body after accidental ingestion.

4. What kind of animal has treasure?

The "treasures" in the intestines and stomach of animals are generally known as bezoar, dog treasure and Mabao, which are also known as the three treasures of traditional Chinese medicine. Bezoar is the gallstone of cattle cattle or buffalo; Goubao is the stomach stone of canines; Ma Bao is the stone in the gastrointestinal tract of diseased horses; Ji Bao is also the gallstone of chickens.

1. What is Ma Bao?

Ma Bao was first published in the Compendium of Materia Medica: commonly known as horse dung stone. Ma Bao is not commonly used traditional Chinese medicine and is a stone in the stomach and intestines of equine animals. It can be collected throughout the year. If the sick horse is slaughtered and touched with stones in its stomach and intestines, it will be washed with clean water and dried. Ma Bao is spherical, oval or oblate, of different sizes, 6-20cm in diameter and weighs 250-2500 grams, but some are as small as beans. The surface is gray, bluish gray or oily brown, smooth, slightly glossy or with messy fine grass lines. Strong body weight, obvious concentric layer lines can be seen in the cross section, there are often metal or other granular foreign bodies in the central part, odorless or slightly smelly.

2. What is bezoar?

Bezoar is a cholelithiasis of bovine liver in chordate animals. Those produced in the gallbladder are called "bile yolk" or "egg yolk", those produced in the bile duct are called "tube yolk", and those produced in the hepatic duct are called "liver yolk". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bezoar is fragrant, slightly bitter and sweet, and cool. Can be used for antipyretic, detoxification, shock. Oral treatment of high fever coma, madness, infantile convulsions and other symptoms, external treatment of sore throat, mouth sores, uremia. Natural bezoar is very precious, the international price is higher than gold, most of the use of the so-called artificial bezoar.

3. What is Goubao?

Dog treasure alias dog stone, dog gold, golden egg, is the dog's stomach, gallbladder, kidney or bladder stone, spherical or elliptical ball. Its taste is sweet and salty, and it has the effect of reducing adverse qi, opening depression, eliminating accumulation and detoxification. "Compendium of Materia Medica" refers to "Goubao is born in the belly of a mangy dog, shaped like a white stone, with bluish color, its reason is layered, and it is also a rare thing." "

Goubao is spherical or oval in shape and varies in size with a diameter of 1.5 cm to 5 cm. The surface is grayish white or grayish black, slightly glossy, with most kinds of round protuberances. It is heavy, solid and delicate, and can be carved with fingernails. Broken and show concentric annular lamellar lines, near the center of the more loose, but most can not be separated. The air is slightly fishy, the taste is slightly bitter, chewing is powdery but not sandy. Generally speaking, a dog treasure weighs about 2 to 7 grams after removing the core. The color is white and delicate, the fingernails are marked, and the cross section is laminated.

Whether this "Jibao" is worth or not, I think it depends on the individual. If you think it is worth collecting, you should also be careful not to be blindly credulous. So far, there is no special study of Jibao. Therefore, I suggest that we should deal with this problem rationally.