"Snake gallbladder" can snake gall be eaten raw? How do you eat it? What does it look like? What are the effects and effects?

Many areas of Zhejiang have the custom of swallowing snake gall alive. They feel that eating snake meat and swallowing snake gall can cool and dispel summer heat. All snake gallbladder can be used as medicine, especially the gallbladder of gold ring snake, silver ring snake, chessboard snake, cobra, king cobra, five-step snake and Agkistrodon halys, which are valuable raw materials for medicine. Can the snake gall be eaten raw? What's the best way to eat? What are the effects and effects?

Can snake gall be eaten raw?

Never eat it raw.

Although from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, snake gallbladder has a certain efficacy in heat-clearing and detoxification, but from the point of view of patient safety, snake gallbladder is rarely used in TCM prescriptions, and there are many other safe medicines for heat-clearing and detoxification, such as scabies. Dandelion, chrysanthemum and Scutellaria can all replace snake gallbladder to achieve the same effect.

In addition, if the snake gallbladder is eaten, it must be strictly processed. At present, there are snake gall ingredients in some proprietary Chinese medicines, which have been strictly tested and processed by pharmaceutical companies. Unprocessed raw snake gall is never recommended by doctors. There is a folk tradition of soaking snake gallbladder to drink wine, and it is not recommended: first, there is no evidence that soaking wine can completely kill parasites; second, raw snake gallbladder is toxic to a certain extent, in addition to the risk of parasites, there is also the risk of poisoning.

Eating raw snake bile is easy to cause toxic diseases, light nausea, vomiting, dizziness, serious is life-threatening. This is because snake bile contains bile toxins, histamine, bile salts and cyanide. After entering the gastrointestinal tract of the human body, its toxic components are absorbed into the liver and then excreted by the kidney. The incidence of acute renal failure and liver damage was the highest in poisoning patients, followed by stomach, intestine, heart, brain and other organs. If not rescued in time, the mortality rate was very high.

Therefore, do not listen to rumors, rashly eat raw snake gallbladder, raw snake blood, so as not to endanger life and health. If you really need to take snake bile products, you should choose products that have been strictly handled by regular manufacturers.

How do you eat snake gall?

In daily life, many people do not know the correct way to take snake bile, wrong use may lead to poisoning, or even life-threatening. The most common wrong way to eat snake gall is raw food, which has great harm: first, snake gall itself is toxic, and raw food may cause poisoning, kidney failure and liver damage. Second, snakes have a lot of parasites, and raw food may cause parasite infection. Here are some correct ways to take snake gall for readers.

Height counting liquor brewing system

The snake gallbladder can be soaked in liquor at a height of 60 °- 65 °for more than a month, and then drink snake bile wine. This can play a role in sterilization and avoid infection with pathogenic bacteria of intestinal infectious diseases such as salmonella.

High temperature treatment

Can be steamed and taken: the snake gall is steamed in a pot and eaten. The method is to use high temperature to kill parasites and bacteria in the snake gall. In addition, you can also buy dried snake gall treated with high temperature to eat, which can also avoid parasite infection.

What does snake gall look like?

Snake gallbladder is the gallbladder in which bile is stored in the snake. The snake bile is oval or oval in shape, and the capsule is straight. Bile duct shape: snake bile duct slender texture is soft and flexible, attached to the capsule.

1. Cobra gall: the shape is oval, with blunt circles at both ends. The surface of the biliary skin is smooth, the biliary pedicle is slightly flat and lateral, and the bile duct is close to the biliary wall. Bile is orange and sticky. The taste is bitter and sweet, with a cool and irritating feeling.

2. Golden ring snake gall: the shape is triangular or oval in shape, and the gallbladder pedicle is slightly thick. The bile is golden yellow and slightly sticky. The bile is dark green in summer and white or reddish and yellowish in winter. Bile viscosity also changes in different seasons. Bitter and sweet.

3. Silver ring snake gall: the shape is long oval, the two ends are slightly pointed, the base of the tip bile duct is thick and warped, showing an obvious flat head hook. Bile orange. Slightly fishy, ignorance is bitter before it is sweet.

4. Five-step snake gall: also known as Agkistrodon acutus. The gallbladder of Agkistrodon acutus, a viper. The shape is oval, the bile duct is thick, the gallbladder wall is thin, not smooth, there are many tendons and collaterals, and the gallbladder is full and wrinkled. Bile is light yellow, beige or yellowish white, bile is thin. The air is slightly fishy, the taste is bitter and cool.

5. The gallbladder of the black snake: it is the gallbladder of the snake of the family Serpidae. Shaped like white beans or ground peanuts. The surface of the gallbladder is rough and not smooth, with reticular tendons. Bile duct from the middle of the gallbladder, no supervisor bile, showing a small number of branches, it is not easy to squeeze out bile. Bile is greenish brown and sticky. Bitter and then sweet.

6. Chinchilla snake gall: also called tree banyan snake. It is the gallbladder of the squirrel snake of the family Serpidae. The shape is long oval, one end is obtusely round, the other is slightly pointed. The base of the bile duct is located at the tip. The surface of the gallbladder is smooth; the bile is grass green or light green. Ignorant and bitter.

7. Mouse snake gallbladder: the gallbladder of the mouse snake of the family Serpidae. The shape is long tube-shaped, the gallbladder is large, full and full, and the surface of the gallbladder is smooth. The bile is green or light green. The taste is bitter before it is sweet.

8. Wang Jin Snake gallbladder: the gallbladder of Wang Jinhe, an animal of the family Serpidae. The shape is long oval, sharp at both ends. The bile duct is thicker and the bile duct wall is thicker. Bile is dark green. The air is slightly fishy, the taste is bitter and cool.

9. Three-cable brocade snake gallbladder: the gallbladder of three-cable brocade snake of the family Serpidae. The shape is mostly long oval. The bile skin is thicker, the bile duct base is thicker, the bile is dark green, and a few bile is orange or light red. It is fishy, bitter and cool.

The efficacy and function of snake gall

Snake gall has been a kind of traditional Chinese medicine since ancient times, which is widely used in clinic and has been highly respected in the folk since ancient times. It was first recorded in the Ming Doctor Bielu in the Han Dynasty, including the gall of the snake (python), the gall of Agkistrodon halys and the gall of the snake unique to our country.

The snake has cool gallbladder, bitter taste and sweet taste, it has the effects of removing phlegm, expelling wind and dampness, treating cough and phlegm, eye swelling and pain, skin heat toxin, mouth and eye sores, lung heat cough, stomach heat pain, liver heat eye red, acute rheumatic arthritis and hemorrhoids. It can adjust and tonify the human nervous system, and has a good therapeutic effect on neurasthenia, dizziness of high fever and infantile convulsions. It can mediate the endocrine system and immune system of the human body and delay the aging of the body.