The pros and cons of eating snake gall bladder raw

Eating snake gall raw has certain benefits to the body. The gallbladder in the snake gall has great medicinal value, especially for some highly poisonous snakes, such as cobra, bungarus, king cobra, etc. They are all very precious Chinese medicinal materials, which have a good effect of dispelling wind and dampness, and have the effect of improving eyesight and cooling down. Of course, it is also best not to eat snake gall raw. After all, there are parasites in snake gall, and it is easy to cause poisoning.

The benefits of eating snake gall bladder raw

Snake gallbladder is the gallbladder in the snake that stores bile. All snake galls can be used as medicine, especially the gall of the Bungarus multicinctus, the Bungarus cobra, the Chessboard snake, the Cobra, the King cobra, the Five-step snake and the Agkistrodon acutus, which are valuable raw materials for medicine. Snake gall is cool in nature, bitter and slightly sweet in taste. It has the effects of dispelling wind and dampness, cooling and improving eyesight, detoxifying and removing prickly heat. It can regulate the human nervous system, endocrine system and immune system, and delay the aging of the body. However, because raw snake gall contains parasites, people can easily be poisoned after eating it. If you want to take it, the snake gall needs to be steamed.

The disadvantages of eating snake gall bladder raw

Eating snake gall bladder raw can easily cause poisoning diseases, which may cause nausea, vomiting, and dizziness at the mildest level, or be life-threatening at the worst. This is because snake bile contains bile toxins, histamine, bile salts, cyanide and other substances. After entering the human gastrointestinal tract, their toxic components are absorbed and enter the liver, and then excreted by the kidneys. Therefore, the incidence of acute renal failure and liver damage is the highest among poisoning patients, followed by involvement of organs such as the stomach, intestines, heart, and brain. If not treated in time, the mortality rate is very high.

Snakes are important carriers and sources of infection of Salmonella. Data show that the rate of Salmonella carried by snakes is as high as 50%, and the rate of Salmonella carried by snake gallbladder is even higher. Even after soaking snake gallbladder in 40° white wine for half an hour, there was no inhibition or reduction in Salmonella. Therefore, swallowing snake bile raw or mixing bile with wine to drink is a very dangerous thing, which can cause diseases such as acute gastroenteritis, typhoid, paratyphoid, and parasitic infection.