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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.
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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.
Of all the weird shit I was expecting today, I would never would have had this on my bingo card.
