Ox gall is a remedy of very ancient use. It is used in the old-school mostly as a
purgative; for preventing putrefactive changes in the intestines, and for increasing peristalsis. It
is sometimes given along with Opium to prevent the constipating effect of that drug. In the
stomach bile is a foreign body, precipitating pepsin and causing irritation of the stomach. It does
- ▸not aid the digestion either of albumen or of farinaceous substances.
- ▸Fel.
- ▸¢.
- ▸has been proved
homeeopathically by Buchner, and has produced a few characteristic symptoms: disordered
digestion, diarrhoea, headache, pains in joints, and cramps. It removed a tendency to sleep after
eating. Several symptoms were noticed in nape of neck.