Gorochana

Reputedly, Gorochana acts as an antidote to poisons, promotes clear thoughts, and alleviates fevers and contagious diseases. The superior, mediocre, and inferior forms of these stones are reputed to respectively cure seven, five, three patients who have been poisoned. In medieval European medical traditions, gallstones were highly esteemed as an antidote to poisoning. 'Oriental gallstones' obtained from the East were particularly prized ones. In the Indian subcontinent, a drop of Gorochana will be given along with mother's milk, every particular day of the baby's birth. It will help to tremendously increase voice clarity for babies.

Gorochanas of the finest qualities is obtained from the brain of an elephant and from the stomach of a cattle and other animals. Resembling the yellow yolk of a boiled egg, the yellow pigments obtained from a Gorochana is used as a tonic, sedative or tilaka to the forehead.