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One of the most prized ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine, cattle gallstones have become so valuable that traders are willing to pay as much as $5,800 an ounce—twice the price of gold—for the nuggets of hardened bile.
it never ceases to amaze me what people will call “medicine”… and more so how much they pay for unproven treatments like gallstones
this cracks me up as I just watched the apathecary anime and I think this might have been what this super rare prize whe was super excited to get was.