Peacock bile (Pavo cristatus), of the Phasianidae (Aves) family. The large crested ground-dwelling pheasant, the male trained with the great ocellated fan; the drug is the bile from its gall; native range: the open forest, scrub and village edge of the Indian subcontinent; the bird now protected and the trade prohibited. Globally recognized as mayura pitta in Sanskrit, mor ka pitta in Hindi, and peacock bile, peacock gall in English. The part used is the bile. A small quantity of thin greenish bile, bitter and rank, drawn from a gall bladder no larger than a thumbnail.

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