정보 ; 제21회 학술대회 강연 요지 ; 일반연제 ; 시판 우황 및 담즙류의 성분 비교 연구

Bezoar is the gallstone of ox. It is important ingredient of some traditional medicines, which have been used to treat coma, delirium, convulsions and so on, but its effective components and mechanism of pharmacology are still not clear. An analysis of minerals in various Bezoars, Artificial Bezoar, Ox-bile powders, Pig-bile powders and Human gallstones and elutions in the gastric juice prepared from them was performed by atomic absorption spectrophotometer. Contents of total bilirubin and cholic acid in these samples were analysed and IR spectra patterns were studied. The results demonstrated that there is a great difference between the natural Bezoar and Artificial Bezoar in content of minerals, elution rate of minerals, bilirubin, cholic acid and IR spectra pattern. But Bezoars were similar to human gallstones in these components. Since we have found that the human gallstones have similar components as the Bezoar, this will provide a valuable information that the human gallstone may be used instead of the Bezoar, which is very scarce.