Snake gall has the effects of clearing the lungs, cooling the liver, brightening the eyes and detoxifying the toxin, but it is currently not generally used as a tonic, but is prepared for use as a proprietary Chinese medicine.
Snake gallbladder is the gallbladder of many kinds of snakes, with bitter, slightly sweet taste and cold nature, it can be used to treat lung-heat cough, phlegm asthma, whooping cough, epilepsy, blurred vision, eye redness and swelling pain, skin fever and poison, itchy sores and redness. The adverse effects and contraindications are not clear.
However, at present, snake gall is not usually used as Chinese medicine in traditional Chinese medicine pharmacies to prepare soups, but is mostly prepared as proprietary Chinese medicines in pharmaceutical factories, and the common snake gall preparations include snake gall Chenpi oral liquid, snake gall Chuanbei Liquid, and Niuhuang Snake Gall and Chuanbei Drops Pills.
The use of drugs is recommended under the guidance of a doctor, do not use on your own.