Among the general populace, the An Gong Bezoar Pill has a legion of devotees who firmly believe it to be a life-saving Divine Medicine. Many families keep several on hand for emergencies.
Some people even collect An Gong Bezoar Pills, treating them as prized treasures.
A single 3-gram Hong Kong edition of the An Gong Bezoar Pill has sold for the astronomical price of 1,280 Hong Kong dollars!
One An Gong Bezoar Pill from the last century fetched a staggering 110,000 yuan at auction.
With a history stretching back over 200 years, the An Gong Bezoar Pill originated in the *Treatise on Warm Diseases* by Wu Jutong of the Qing Dynasty.
Its functions are to clear heat, detoxify, calm convulsions, and open the orifices.
