Efficacy and effects of bear bile powder

Bear bile powder is the dried bile of black and brown bears of the bear family, and is a valuable traditional Chinese medicine. Bear bile powder is bitter-cold in nature and enters the liver, gall bladder and heart meridians. With its high quality effect of clearing heat and detoxification, bear bile powder has good effect in medical, health and beauty fields. So what are the effects and contraindications of bear bile powder?

Clearing heat and detoxifying

Bear bile powder is bitter and cold in nature, and is very effective in clearing heat and detoxifying toxins, as well as dispersing carbuncles and swellings, so it is often used to treat sores and carbuncles, painful hemorrhoids and sore throats caused by heat and toxins.

Relieves wind and spasm

Bear bile powder is bitter-cold and heat-clearing, and has a good effect of cooling the heart and clearing the liver, calming the wind and relieving spasm. It is often used to treat high fever and frightening wind, epilepsy, eclampsia, hand and foot convulsions caused by the incandescence of liver fire and heat. For example, children with phlegm-heat epilepsy can take this product directly with breast milk.

Clearing the liver and improving eyesight

Bear bile powder enters the liver meridian and is good at clearing the liver and brightening the eyes to push out opacities, so it can be used to treat ophthalmological diseases such as liver fever, redness and swelling of the eyes, shyness and lacrimation, and opacification of the eyes. For newborns with fetal fever and closed eyes, a little bear bile powder can be turned into water and used to fumigate the eyes.

Lithotripsy for liver and bile

The bile acid salt contained in bear bile powder can increase the secretion of bile, improve the lipid structure of bile, make the saturation of cholesterol in bile decrease and produce cholesterol unsaturated bile, which can dissolve cholesterol stones; bear bile powder also promotes the recovery of epithelial tissues, so it has a hepatoprotective effect and is suitable for the treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver swelling, jaundice, biliary tract and gallbladder diseases.

Protects the heart and lowers blood pressure

Bear bile can significantly increase coronary flow, reduce coronary resistance, decrease myocardial oxygen consumption, and increase hypoxia tolerance in mice. It can also effectively reduce the contractility of myocardium, shorten the action potential time presentation, and has a hypotensive effect. Bear bile powder can promote the conversion of cholesterol into bile acid, inhibit the deposition of cholesterol in the blood vessel wall, and promote the decomposition of fat and fatty acid, which has the effect of softening the cardiovascular and cerebral vessels and protecting the heart.

Anti-thrombotic

Ursodeoxycholic acid shouted in bear bile powder can inhibit cholesterol synthesis, reduce its absorption from the intestinal tract, lower the concentration of cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood, and also inhibit the dissolution of blood acids, which has a certain effect on the prevention and treatment of cerebral thrombosis, coronary heart disease and angina pectoris.

Anti-fatigue

Bear bile has the effect of inhibiting the production of lactic acid and promoting the oxidative decomposition of lactic acid, which can improve fatigue and tiredness.

Lowering blood sugar

Bear bile powder can also promote the synthesis of sugar and lactic acid into liver glycogen and enhance the secretion of insulin, so it can lower blood sugar and urine sugar values, either alone or in combination with insulin, and is effective in the treatment of diabetes.

Antibacterial

The goose deoxycholic acid, bile acid and oxybolic acid contained in bear bile powder have significant inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus, S. pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, etc.

Contraindications to the use of bear bile powder

The efficacy of bear bile powder is very high and effective, and its toxicity is also very low. However, it should be noted that bear bile powder is too bitter and cold, which can easily hurt the spleen and stomach, so it should not be used by people who have a cold spleen and stomach and patients with cold deficiency.